If the history of the Screen Actors Guild nominations is any indication, the following major Oscar contenders now have no shot at winning the Academy Award for Best Picture:
– Call Me By Your Name
– The Shape of Water
– The Post
– Dunkirk
And throw in The Florida Project for good measure.
Why? Because in the 23 year history of the Screen Actors Guild Awards, only once has an eventual Academy Best Picture winner not been nominated by SAG for Cast in a Motion Picture, the guild’s top film award. (That asterisk came in year two, 1995, when SAG didn’t nominate the cast of Braveheart.)
If any of the five films mentioned above somehow move on to win the top Oscar, they’ll have broken a streak lasting more than two decades.
To further emphasize how iron clad the SAG Cast nominees have become at being Best Picture predictors, the past two years the leading Oscar favorites – La La Land and The Revenant – did not secure SAG Cast nominations, . Instead, little indies Moonlight and Spotlight were the big Best Picture winners, following their SAG cast noms (Spotlight also won the cast award for 2015).
Suffice it to say, the 2017 Awards Race has been officially blown wide open, particularly when you also consider that The Post was entirely shut out, snubbing Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as well.
If SAG has boosted any film’s prospects it’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. It leads with 4 nominations: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role – Frances McDormand, and two nods for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role – Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell.
Favorite surprise inclusion: The Big Sick, which has been sorely overlooked so far this awards season until getting nods for Best Cast and Supporting Female Actor Holly Hunter. The year’s best rom-com (and one of the year’s best, period) is very deserving of this belated recognition.
The 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards will be handed out live on Sunday January 21, 2017 at 8pm EST/7pm CST/5pm PST, simulcast on TBS and TNT.
24th SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD NOMINATIONS
Films of 2017
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
– The Big Sick
– Get Out
– Lady Bird
– Mudbound
– Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
– Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
– James Franco, The Disaster Artist
– Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
– Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
– Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
– Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul
– Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
– Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
– Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
– Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
– Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes
– Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
– Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
– Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
– Sam Rockewell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
– Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
– Hong Chau, Downsizing
– Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
– Allison Janney, I, Tonya
– Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
– Baby Driver
– Dunkirk
– Logan
– War For The Planet Of The Apes
– Wonder Woman
54th Life Achievement Recipient
Morgan Freeman
(To see a full list of SAG Television Nominees, click here.)
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AFI Top 10 of 2017
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