Aid and The Artist are the current frontrunners Oscar after sweeping the Board at the Screen Actors Guild and the Critics ' Choice award nominations. Tate Taylor civil rights-era family drama The descendants and Simon Curtis My week with Marilyn followed with two.
Help SAG distance is led by Viola Davis, who was nominated alongside Glenn Close to Albert Nobbs, Meryl Streep to The Iron Lady, Tilda Swinton for we need to talk about Kevin and Michelle Williams for My week with Marilyn in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor Category. It received further nominations in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role category, where Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer got the nod, alongside Bridesmaid's Melissa McCarthy, Bérénice Bejo and The Artist Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs.
Artist Jean Dujardin was nominated alongside Leonardo DiCaprio (j. Edgar), George Clooney (The offspring) and Brad Pitt (Moneyball) in outstanding performance by an actor in a leading role Category. Demián Bichir proved a surprise Inclusion-she was nominated for her role in Chris Weitz LA-set morality tale of father-son a better life. Best supporting actor category included nods to Kenneth Branagh, his role as Sir Laurence Olivier in My week with Marilyn; Armie Hammer as j. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson airport right people; Jonah Hill as sports statistics desing Peter brand in Moneyball; Nick Nolte as Boxer former alcholic in Warrior and Christopher Plummer as a gay man coming out in the 70s in the beginners.
Nominated SAG ensembles (groups that split screen award talent) went into the mold of The Artist, Bridesmaids, The offspring, and midnight in Paris.
Daldry's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 novel about a boy aged nine years who lost his father on the terrorist attacks of September 11 gave him a nomination for Best Director. He was joined by Hazanavicius to The Artist as well as The offspring, Payne for Winding Refn Prize worth to Drive, Scorsese to Hugo and Spielberg for war horses. The second is also adapted from the original novel: in the case of Michael Morpurgo's 1982 book about Devon search hand stable trenches No man's Land, his beloved Colt, Joey.