Wednesday 12 December 2012

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD NOMINATIONS



Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
John Hawkes (The Sessions)
Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)
Denzel Washington (Flight)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)
Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin (Argo)
Javier Bardem (Skyfall)
Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Sally Field (Lincoln)
Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Nicole Kidman (The Paperboy)
Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

Best Ensemble
Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Rory Cochrane, Bryan Cranston, Christopher Denham, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Victor Garber, John Goodman, Scoot McNairy and Chris Messina (Argo)
Isabelle Allen, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Daniel Huttlestone, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Tveit and Colm Wilkinson (Les Misérables)
Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Anupam Kher, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Tucker and Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader and David Strathairn (Lincoln)
Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Ronald Pickup, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Penelope Wilton (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

Best Stunt Ensemble
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Bourne Legacy
The Dark Knight Rises
Les Misérables
Skyfall

These bad boys were leaked! The Master gets roundly snubbed, save Philip Seymour Hoffman's nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The only other notable snub would be Emmanuelle Riva. Aside from that, most of the main Oscar contenders are present and correct, and perhaps the Supporting Actor race has been granted a little clarity, or perhaps not: no-one from Django, no Matthew McConaughey either. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel also receives a boost, with two nominations. But you won't catch me complaining, not even with the Joaquin Phoenix, Emmanuelle Riva, Amy Adams omissions: any group that has room for both Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman is fine in my book! Almost makes up for nominating Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar last year over Michael Fassbender in Shame... almost...

3 comments:

  1. Wow, disaster for THE MASTER!!! I figured from the start that A.M.P.A.S. would want nothing to do with this film, and though it may still slip in on the entended Best Picture short list on January 10th, it's clear that the actor's branch has limited reverence. Still, Hoffmann did slip in.

    I think the LES MIS haters must now retreat and conceed the serious love fro the musical, with is now posied to rack up many nominations. Only LINCOLN in fact will garner more.



    Cooper? Really. A bummer. Ludicrous that he is picked over Phoenix.


    I love Dame Mirren, but to choose her over Weisz and Riva is the height of sbsurdity.
    -Sam Juliano

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  2. I'm not much looking forward to Hitchcock. Doesn't even look like Helen Mirren's best work. Sometimes she overdoes it a little...

    Les Mis was always gonna rise above the poor reviews and rake in a heap of nominations from the groups which matter most. Oh well. And SAG were never gonna get The Master. A bunch of shitty jobbing actors who found it far too cerebral. Not enough crying. Not enough EMOTING! This is what happens when you let actors make the decisions.

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  3. Oh yeah, and Bradley Cooper. A terrible performance. He had no idea of how to portray mental illness. There's not a good actor in there. It's all just a pretty face, and I don't even think he's pretty.

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