SAG Helps Thin Oscar Herd?

If you were hoping for the Screen Actors Guild to help sort discover the eventual accolade nominees, well, there's beatific programme and there is intense news. The beatific programme is that the acting races hit been boost cemented in pericarp and should attain it cushy enough for the prognosticators to attain their eventual choices. The intense programme is that the acting races hit been boost cemented in pericarp leaving little room for surprises and the possibleness clunk of whatever really uninspired selections.

Starting with advance person we hit favorites Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), George Clooney (Up In The Air), moneyman Freeman (Invictus) and Colin Firth (A Single Man) every receiving nominations from SAG as substantially as the BFCA and the Globes. Right in distinction with SAG's underway decennium evaluate of sight 40 of their terminal 50 nominees for Best Actor intend nominated. 80%, averaging digit a assemblage to be dropped soured the list. The ordinal SAG nominee is the recognize Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker). He was digit of the six BFCA predictions, I mean, choices, but was left soured the Globes itemize in souvenir of Tobey Maguire (Brothers). The BFCA's ordinal garner was Viggo Mortensen (The Road) who was also appointed by the D.C. critics patch Renner to date has won over the critics from Boston and Las Vegas and is ease in the running from D.C., St. gladiator and Chicago.

Arguably the best action in the bunch, leaving him as the mismatched man discover would be a crime. Then again so are the weakening chances for other possibleness nominees from the early lists. Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) is up for awards from metropolis and the Globes patch Matt friend despite nods for his work in The Informant! from both of those groups along with city is sight his double-dip this assemblage shifting to a body-of-work oratory in the more past and inferior interesting persona of Rugby captain Francois Pienaar from Invictus.

Best Actress is where the SAG awards really shine though. Since 1999, exclusive quaternary of their nominees - Patricia Clarkson (2003's The Station Agent), Evan wife Wood (2003's Thirteen), Zhang Ziyi (2005's Memoirs of a Geisha), Angelina Jolie (2007's A Mighty Heart) - did not go onto an accolade nod. Five if you count that they picked Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road and she was appointed for The Reader (which SAG, aforementioned most others, had her in Supporting.) OK, six if you poverty to intend theoretical when they place Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) into the advance category. But she WAS appointed in Supporting and won the Oscar, so exclusive fivesome then. This assemblage SAG continuing with the three locks - Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) and Meryl actress (Julie & Julia).

They then improved the quantity that underway incase duty queen, Sandra Bullock, is feat to be appointed for The Blind Side. Yes, the actress who erst turned downbound Million Dollar Baby has conventional nominations from SAG, the Globes and the BFCA for feat blonde in a dumbed downbound edition of Julia Roberts' real-life duplication in Charlie Wilson's War. SAG also loved the histrionics of Helen Mirren's work as Mrs. Tolstoy in The Last Station, gift her whatever such needed momentum. Remember, fivesome times in the terminal decade years, SAG has been a perfect 5-for-5 correct in this collection and that's intense programme for Marion Cotillard (Nine) , who is effort nods in Lead and Supporting currently, Saorise Ronan (The Lovely Bones), Abbie Cornish (Bright Star) and exposure Maya Rudolph (Away We Go). Any earnest critic poverty to debate that any of those quaternary performances aren't more commendable than Bullock? Sorry, Pete Hammond, I said serious.

The nominees for Supporting Actress are in the aforementioned both as the directive Actors. Averaging meet digit miss a assemblage since 1999, it haw not be likewise hornlike to garner discover the mismatched Mohammedan discover activity by those rules. Both of the Up In The Air gals, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick, are in the running again against Mo'Nique Dearest for Precious. In the fourth interval we hit Penelope Cruz (Nine), a action also appointed by the Golden Globes but snubbed by both the BFCA and metropolis critics. Cruz's terminal digit nominations from SAG (Volver & Vicky Cristina Barcelona) did go onto accolade nods, including a victory for the latter in 2008.

The Actors though went not with Melanie Laurent from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, another action figuring into both Lead and Supporting, but with Diane Kruger receiving her very first name of this awards season. And quite mayhap her last. Looking at the Golden Globes' fivesome choices it's cushy to move to the closing that we are looking at the fivesome accolade nominees. It meet looks right. Their ordinal garner was Julianne histrion (A Single Man) who was also broached by Chicago, D.C. and the BFCA. We also can't completely modify Samantha Morton (The Messenger) who won in San Diego and has pending noms from D.C., St. gladiator and the BFCA. Could both sneak in and take Cruz discover of the equation? One thing's nearly for destined - Miss Kruger is not feat to fit into that equation.

Where there is more room for nonachievement is in the Supporting Actor realm. Hitting their lowest, patch ease very respectable proportionality (76%) over the terminal decade years, the SAGs hit whatever glaring omissions from this year's list. Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) and Woody Harrelson (The Messenger) are your awards/nominations leaders for the flavour and move their territory towards accolade nods. As mentioned earlier, perhaps to equally take and liberated up space in the packed Lead Actor category, Matt friend is production up clean for Invictus, receiving nods from SAG, the Globes and the BFCA. And those groups only. SAG's ordinal blot went to Christopher Plummer (The Last Station), ringing the fivesome nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press.

The BFCA had the crowning quaternary and then gave themselves a better shot at calling the accolade itemize in nominating faith McKay (Me and Orson Welles) and Alfred Molina (An Education). metropolis likeable McKay but presented their ordinal interval to underdog saint Capaldi (In The Loop). Harrelson and McKay are the exclusive ones who hit stolen an honor from Waltz to this point. The 76% suggests the SAGs crapper either push quaternary to accolade or maybe exclusive three. Since they began handing discover awards in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild hit NEVER matching up Supporting Actor 5-for-5 with Oscar. For whom is this beatific and intense programme for though?

As for the Ensemble collection which whatever aforementioned to countenance upon as an indicator of Best Picture, well, it's inferior meaningful than what haw hit been shapely up in your mind. Just 34 of the terminal 51 Ensemble nominees were up for Best Picture. 66%. That existence said, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Nine and Precious all countenance pretty solidified at the moment. You crapper see the flooded Awards Tally here.