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27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations Announcement
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be handed out today in a socially distanced format, likely solidifying various performers claims to front-runner status ahead of Oscar night.
The late Chadwick Boseman is as close as you can get to being a sure thing in the best actor category for his role as an ambitious yet troubled young musician in “Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. He has already collected Golden Globe and Critics Choice wins for the role.
Boseman also nominated for his supporting work in “Da 5 Bloods and as a member of the ensemble cast of that film and “Ma Rainey is the first performer to receive four SAG nominations in a single year for motion picture roles. Jamie Foxx and Maggie Smith have both had four nominations in a single year, but for a combination of film and television roles.
Only five women have ever been in the running for the award; only one – Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010 – has won.
British film-maker Fennell – perhaps best known for her acting work, playing Camilla Parker Bowles on Netflix’s The Crown – is nominated for her first ever feature, the rape revenge comedy Promising Young Woman. It is also up for best film, best original screenplay and best leading actress, for Carey Mulligan.
Zhao, meanwhile, goes into the race for both director and picture as the frontrunner, with Nomadland – an elegiac drama about the lives on the road of disenfranchised older Americans starring Frances McDormand – victorious in a sweep of preceding awards ceremonies.