’12 Years A Slave’ leads SAG nominations
Posted December 11, 2013 2:01 pm.
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The actors of the slavery drama 12 Years a Slave led the nominees for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) film awards with four nods including the top prize, best film ensemble cast.
The film also earned nods for lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, and supporting actors Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o.
The other films to be nominated in the top category were August: Osage County, which also saw nods for Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts; AIDS drama Dallas Buyers Club and its stars Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto; civil rights tale Lee Daniels’ The Butler along with Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey; and rounding out the best film ensemble cast, American Hustle, which also saw star Jennifer Lawrence pick up a supporting actress nod.
In the best actor category, veteran Bruce Dern was nominated for his role as a crotchety old man who thinks he has won the sweepstakes in Nebraska. He was joined by Chiwetel Ejiofor, the British actor who plays the free black man sold into slavery in the real-life story 12 Years a Slave.
The best actor nominees was Tom Hanks as the ship captain in Somali pirate thriller Captain Phillips.
The best actress award nominations were dominated by veteran actresses, like Judi Dench as the elderly Irish mother seeking the son taken from her as a teenager in Philomena, Streep as a bitter family matriarch in August: Osage County, the film adaptation of an acclaimed Broadway play.
Cate Blanchett was nominated for her lead role as a socialite fallen on hard times in Blue Jasmine, while Sandra Bullock received a nod for her turn as an astronaut tumbling through space in Gravity. Emma Thompson rounded out the list as the embittered Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers in Saving Mr. Banks.
The SAG awards are among the most-watched honors during Hollywood’s busy awards season. They will be handed out in Los Angeles on Jan. 18.
