Hollywood-SAG Awards: Has a 'Hidden' Threat to the Oscar Prospects of 'La La Land' Emerged?

The cast of 'Hidden Figures' accepts the best ensemble SAG Award

According The Hollywood Reporer,THR's awards analyst also dissects the meaning of Denzel Washington's upset win over Casey Affleck in the best actor race, among other results.
La La Land had a big night on Saturday at the 28th PGA Awards, where it won the top prize, and everyone knew, even then, that some other film was going to have its big night on Sunday at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards. That's because La La Land was not nominated for the best ensemble SAG Award, the closest thing that SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union, has to a best picture award.
How could a film about a struggling actress, which got as many Oscar nominations as any in history, not even make the final five for that prize with this group? In all likelihood, because a lot of guild members took the category's title literally and felt that the film is essentially a two-hander that could not be classified as an ensemble.
History suggests that such an omission will preclude La La Land from winning the best picture Oscar — in the 21 previous years in which the best ensemble SAG Award was presented, only one film that wasn't nominated for it still managed to win the best picture Oscar, 1995's Braveheart — but I strongly suspect that history will be defied on Feb. 26 because of the way the SAG Awards did play out.
The film most widely regarded as the greatest threat to La La Land in the best picture Oscar race, Moonlight, was not able to seize this opening, but instead was vanquished — in an upset anticipated by virtually no one — by another, much more profitable film about the African-American experience, Hidden Figures.
This obviously is a demoralizing setback for Moonlight and very exciting for Hidden Figures, considering that the final result was determined by some 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA. While most members of SAG-AFTRA don't belong to the Academy, almost every member of the Academy's actors branch — its largest — belongs to SAG-AFTRA, so this is as sizable a sample size as we're going to get about how the Academy feels.