Nominated his role in “Beasts of No Nation”, Idris Elba will be facing off Christian Bale who got a slot for role in “The Big Short”, and 3 other actors. Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo, who were thought to be front-runners to win the award for Best supporting Actor, were also snubbed for their performances on “Spotlight”.
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Among the women for best actress, Cate Blanchett was nominated in Carol, Brie Larson for Room, Saoirse Ronan for Brooklyn and Sarah Silverman for I Smile Back.
Dame Helen Mirren was also nominated in multiple categories, scoring nods for her lead performance in Woman In Gold and her supporting role as Hedda Hopper in Trumbo.
Other lead actor nominees are Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant“), Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs“), Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”) and Johnny Depp (“Black Mass“).
“Trumbo”, the film concerning the 1947 Hollywood blacklist, led the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations on Wednesday in a various subject that hinted at possible Oscar contenders however snubbed presumed entrance-runners “The Martian” and new Jennifer Lawrence drama “Joy”.
The issue of diversity in the awards came to light this year, when the Oscars saw not even one non-white actor nominated for an Oscar – for the first time since 1998.
In the television competition, the casts of “The Big Bang Theory“, “Key & Peele”, “Modern Family“, “Orange Is the New Black“, “Transparent” and “Veep” were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.
The awards will be broadcast live on January 30 from Los Angeles on TNT and TBS.
The race will become clearer quickly when Golden Globe nominations are announced Thursday morning.
“They have done an excellent job of grassroots campaigning and voters clearly responded”, says Scott Feinberg, awards columnist for The Hollywood Reporter.
Here’s the full SAG awards nominations list…
Downton Abbey, which has been hugely successful in the United States, was nominated for best drama ensemble, while Dame Maggie Smith was nominated for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series for her portrayal of the Dowager Countess of Grantham.
She will go up against Kristen Wiig (The Spoils Before Dying), Susan Sarandon (The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe), Christina Ricci (The Lizzie Borden Chronicles) and Queen Latifah (Bessie). Cary Fukunaga’s harrowing African war epic also snagged an Outstanding Performance By A Cast nomination for Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, and Kurt Egyiawan in addition to a nod singling out Elba as the ruthless warlord referred to only as Commandant.
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