Birdman emerged as the top winner in the movie category as it brings home the outstanding cast in a motion picture honors.

"This is the ultimate team sport what we're doing for a living," the film's lead actor, Michael Keaton, quipped, after receiving the award.

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He also said that he finds the award really "tremendous" and that he's "proud to be a part of this group."

Meanwhile, Julianne Moore solidified her status as the top contender for the Oscar's best actress plum, as the five-time Oscar nominee grabbed the best actress trophy for her role as the Columbia professor suffering from early onset of Alzheimer's in S                till Alice.

Meanwhile, actor Eddie Redmayne followed up his Golden Globe win with his victory as best actor for portraying the young physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

"This has been such an extraordinary year for performances," Redmayne said.

The actor dedicated his win to people suffering from ALS, while giving his sincerest thanks to Stephen Hawking and Wilde "for allowing someone who gave up science when they were 14 years old to enter your orbit."

"And thank you for reminding me of the overwhelming power of the will to love and the will to love every second of your life as fully and as passionately as possible," he said.

JK Simmons, meanwhile, earned a SAG for best supporting actor for his role in Whiplash, while Patricia Arquette won the best supporting actress honors for Boyhood.

Meanwhile, screen legend Debbie Reynolds got a rousing standing ovation as she went up on stage to receive her life achievement award.

The 82-year-old star got her first taste of Hollywood after winning Miss Burbank at the tender age of 16. She is best remembered to this day for her roles in such Hollywood classics as Singin' in the Rain (1952), How the West Was Won (1962); and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964).

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