Recent from its wins on the Golden Globes, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer on has topped the nominations for the influential Display Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, that are key to Oscars success.
The SAG Awards, voted on by Hollywood actors, are more likely to get pleasure from a profile enhance of their very own this 12 months as they’re broadcast globally on Netflix – an awards present first for the world’s greatest streaming platform.
Oppenheimer, which tells the story of the inventor of the atomic bomb, earned nominations for Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jnr and Emily Blunt, in addition to “excellent efficiency by a solid” – the SAG Awards’ prime prize.
Nolan’s three-hour epic, which earned almost US$1 billion and acquired rave critiques from critics, is quickly changing into the clear favorite for the Academy Awards in March.
Barbie – the opposite half of final summer season’s “Barbenheimer” field workplace phenomenon, and the 12 months’s highest grossing movie – picked up nominations for Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and general solid.
The surreal comedy primarily based on the wildly fashionable doll additionally picked up a nomination for its stunt performers.
Each films are nominated for greatest solid, with musical remake The Colour Purple rounding out that class.
This 12 months’s SAG Awards gala, held on February 24, will likely be streamed on Netflix, because the platform slowly strikes into internet hosting reside occasions.
Speeches at subsequent month’s gala are sure to function a number of references to final 12 months’s Hollywood strikes, which noticed the trade shut down as SAG-AFTRA – together with the writers’ guild – went face to face with studios.
A deal was lastly reached to finish the actors’ strike in November.
Whereas Netflix will host the gala, none of its movies had been nominated for the evening’s greatest prize.
However the streaming large did land 5 film nominations, together with Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan for Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, and Jodie Foster and Annette Bening for Nyad.
Elsewhere, Globes winners Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph picked up nominations for The Holdovers, as did Emma Stone and her co-star Willem Dafoe for Poor Issues.
All 4 movies missed out on nominations for excellent solid.
Actors signify the largest department of the membership of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, which votes for the Oscars.
Hollywood’s administrators’ guild additionally introduced its personal nominations on Wednesday.
Each Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie once more made the shortlist of 5 nominees for the Administrators Guild of America’s greatest movie.
They had been joined by Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, and Poor Issues from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos.