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December 2007
14th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS NOMINATIONS
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14th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS NOMINATIONS It scored four noms, including shout-outs for its ensemble cast, Emile Hirsch as best actor, Hal Holbrook as best supporting actor and Catherine Keener as best supporting actress. In the category of outstanding performance by a cast of a motion picture, "Wild" faces off against "3:10 to Yuma," "American Gangster," "Hairspray" and "No Country for Old Men." SAG appears to favor films that have spent weeks, if not months, in release, ignoring such titles as "Atonement," "Sweeney Todd" and "The Great Debaters," which are just hitting theaters. On the TV side, "30 Rock," "The Sopranos" and "Ugly Betty" lead the pack with three nominations apiece. "30 Rock" and "Ugly Betty" were nominated for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series, where they will compete with "Desperate Housewives," "Entourage" and "The Office." In addition to "The Sopranos," the nominees for best dramatic ensemble are "Boston Legal," "The Closer," "Grey's Anatomy" and rookie series "Mad Men." Because the WGA has granted its union ally SAG a waiver to produce the awards show -- which will be broadcast Jan. 27 by TNT and TBS from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles -- the SAG Awards promise to be one of the few untroubled spots in an embattled awards season. "Wild," a Paramount Vantage release, was left in the dust when the nominations for Golden Globes were announced last week -- it picked up just two mentions for its score and Eddie Vedder's song "Guaranteed" -- but it roared back to life Thursday as Jeanne Tripplehorn and Terrence Howard announced the SAG picks at a predawn news conference at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. "Wild's" Hirsch, who appears to starve himself in the film as he confronts a harsh Alaska winter, scored his first SAG nom and will compete for best dramatic film actor with George Clooney, who plays a troubled legal fixer in "Michael Clayton"; Daniel-Day Lewis, a ruthless oil baron in "There Will Be Blood"; Ryan Gosling, who romances a real, not-so-live doll in "Lars and the Real Girl"; and Viggo Mortensen, who goes mano a mano with the Russian mob in "Eastern Promises." For dramatic film actress, the SAG nominating panel of 2,100 guild members stayed loyal to Cate Blanchett for again presiding over Elizabethan England in the sequel "Elizabeth: The Golden Age." Blanchett, who now has been nominated for SAG Awards 11 times, was first nominated in 1999 for "Elizabeth." She also was nominated this year for supporting actress for making like Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There." In the best actress heat, Blanchett is surrounded by Julie Christie, who drifts off into Alzheimer's in "Away From Her"; Marion Cotillard, who embodies Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose"; Angelina Jolie, who plays another real-life woman, Mariane Pearl, in "A Mighty Heart"; and Ellen Page, who stars as a wisecracking pregnant teen in "Juno." The best supporting male lineup consists of Holbrook, who appears as a lonely retiree in "Wild"; Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones, who represent opposite sides of the law in the same film, "No Country for Old Men"; Casey Affleck, who has a love-hate relationship with a celebrated outlaw in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"; and Tom Wilkinson, who suffers a breakdown in "Michael Clayton." Keener, who teaches Hirsch's character some hard-learned lessons about life on the road in "Wild," is nominated for supporting actress along with Blanchett; Ruby Dee, who plays the crime lord's mom in "American Gangster"; Amy Ryan, who plays another mom caught up in a crisis in "Gone Baby Gone"; and Tilda Swinton, a manipulating corporate attorney in "Michael Clayton." THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role GEORGE CLOONEY / Michael Clayton - "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros. Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role CATE BLANCHETT / Queen Elizabeth I - "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role CASEY AFFLECK / Robert Ford - "The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros. Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role CATE BLANCHETT / Jude - "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company) 3:10 TO YUMA (Lionsgate) CHRISTIAN BALE / Dan Evans AMERICAN GANGSTER (Universal Pictures) ARMAND ASSANTE / Dominic Cattano HAIRSPRAY (New Line Cinema) NIKKI BLONSKY / Tracy Turnblad INTO THE WILD (Paramount Vantage) BRIAN DIERKER / Rainey NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Miramax Films) JAVIER BARDEM / Anton Chigurh
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