“Lincoln,” “Les Misérables,” and “Silver Linings Playbook” were each nominated for four awards by the Screen Actors Guild in West Hollywood this morning.
All three received nods for their ensemble casts, as did “Argo” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.” “Lincoln”’s Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones were nominated for male lead, supporting female, and supporting male respectively. “Les Mis”’s Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway were nominated for male lead and supporting female, while its stunt cast was also acknowledged. “Silver Linings Playbook”’s Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert De Niro were nominated for male lead, female lead, and supporting male.
Two actresses were nominated twice: Nicole Kidman for supporting female for what is indisputably a lead actress performance in “The Paperboy” and, in the actress in a television movie or miniseries category, for her performance in HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn.” Maggie Smith was nominated for her supporting performance in “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and, in the actress in a television drama series, for her performance in “Downton Abbey”; the latter’s Michelle Dockery is a fellow nominee.
SAG’s movie nominations have a distinctly conservative look — Kidman’s Death Row groupie in “The Paperboy” being the riskiest choice made by the Guild’s voters. Among the unsettling performances that missed the cut are those by River Phoenix and Amy Adams in “The Master” (though Philip Seymour Hoffman was nominated as a supporting actor); Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Django Unchained”; and Matthew McConaughey in “Killer Joe.” McConaughey might have also been chosen for his work in “Magic Mike” and “Bernie.”
Rachel Weisz, voted Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle for her portrayal of a suicidal adulteress in “The Deep Blue Sea,” was also unaccountably shut out. So were “Amour”’s Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva and “Compliance”’s Ann Dowd. The implication is that not enough SAG voters have seen those films.
The television nominations were predictably safe, but at least the great Charlotte Rampling — never a comforting “watch” — was nominated for her turn as a Russian woman turned British spy in the moody Sundance Channel miniseries “Restless.”
The SAG Awards will be presented on January 27.
FULL LIST OF SAG Nominations
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
BRADLEY COOPER / Pat – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK”
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Abraham Lincoln – “LINCOLN”
JOHN HAWKES / Mark – “THE SESSIONS”
HUGH JACKMAN / Jean Valjean – “LES MISÉRABLES”
DENZEL WASHINGTON / Whip Whitaker – “FLIGHT”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
JESSICA CHASTAIN / Maya – “ZERO DARK THIRTY”
MARION COTILLARD / Stephanie – “RUST AND BONE”
JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Tiffany – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK”
HELEN MIRREN / Alma Reville – “HITCHCOCK”
NAOMI WATTS / Maria – “THE IMPOSSIBLE”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
ALAN ARKIN / Lester Siegel – “ARGO”
JAVIER BARDEM / Silva – “SKYFALL”
ROBERT DE NIRO / Pat, Sr. – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK”
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN / Lancaster Dodd – “THE MASTER”
TOMMY LEE JONES / Thaddeus Stevens – “LINCOLN”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
SALLY FIELD / Mary Todd Lincoln – “LINCOLN”
ANNE HATHAWAY / Fantine – “LES MISÉRABLES”
HELEN HUNT / Cheryl – “THE SESSIONS”
NICOLE KIDMAN / Charlotte Bless – “THE PAPERBOY”
( MAGGIE SMITH / Muriel Donnelly – “THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL”
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
ARGO
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
LES MISÉRABLES
LINCOLN
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Television
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
KEVIN COSTNER / “Devil Anse” Hatfield – “HATFIELDS & McCOYS”
WOODY HARRELSON / Steve Schmidt – “GAME CHANGE”
ED HARRIS / John McCain – “GAME CHANGE”
CLIVE OWEN / Ernest Hemingway – “HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN“
BILL PAXTON / Randall McCoy – “HATFIELDS & McCOYS”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
NICOLE KIDMAN / Martha Gellhorn – “HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN”
JULIANNE MOORE / Sarah Palin – “GAME CHANGE”
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING / Eva Delectorskaya – “RESTLESS”
SIGOURNEY WEAVER / Elaine Barrish Hammond – “POLITICAL ANIMALS” ALFRE WOODARD / Ouiser – “STEEL MAGNOLIAS”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
STEVE BUSCEMI / Enoch “Nucky” Thompson – “BOARDWALK EMPIRE” BRYAN CRANSTON / Walter White – “BREAKING BAD”
JEFF DANIELS / Will McAvoy – “THE NEWSROOM”
JON HAMM / Don Draper – “MAD MEN”
DAMIAN LEWIS / Nicholas Brody – “HOMELAND”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
CLAIRE DANES / Carrie Mathison – “HOMELAND”
MICHELLE DOCKERY / Lady Mary Crawley – “DOWNTON ABBEY”
JESSICA LANGE / Sister Jude – “AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM” JULIANNA MARGULIES / Alicia Florrick – “THE GOOD WIFE”
MAGGIE SMITH / Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham – “DOWNTON ABBEY”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy – “30 ROCK”
TY BURRELL / Phil Dunphy – “MODERN FAMILY”
LOUIS C.K. / Louie – “LOUIE”
JIM PARSONS / Sheldon Cooper – “THE BIG BANG THEORY”
ERIC STONESTREET / Cameron Tucker – “MODERN FAMILY”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
EDIE FALCO / Jackie Peyton – “NURSE JACKIE”
TINA FEY / Liz Lemon – “30 ROCK”
AMY POEHLER / Leslie Knope – “PARKS AND RECREATION”
SOFIA VERGARA / Gloria Delgado-Pritchett – “MODERN FAMILY”
BETTY WHITE / Elka Ostrovsky – “HOT IN CLEVELAND”
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
BREAKING BAD
DOWNTON ABBEY
HOMELAND
MAD MEN
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
30 ROCK
THE BIG BANG THEORY
GLEE
MODERN FAMILY
NURSE JACKIE
THE OFFICE
SAG AWARDS HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
THE BOURNE LEGACY
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
LES MISÉRABLES
SKYFALL
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
BREAKING BAD
GAME OF THRONES
SONS OF ANARCHY
THE WALKING DEAD
49TH ANNUAL LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
DICK VAN DYKE
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