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The set of clothing SAG Award can often be a reliable harbinger regarding the very best graphic Academy Award race, and Wednesday's nominations with the Screen Actors Guild solidified the energy of many of this year's presumed Oscar favorites, including "The Descendants," "The Artist" in addition to "The Help." But the SAG models slighted a few presumed contenders along with gave different expectation that will just one movie which considered until finally pretty recently just like an Oscar longshot "Bridesmaids."

Because the particular SAG Awards wouldn't have a new best-picture category, that guild's set of clothing treasure is its surrogate. The personal trainer recommendations in that category this holiday season had been regarding "The Artist," "The Descendants," "The Help," "Midnight within Paris" and, within a gentle surprise, this raunchy comedy "Bridesmaids." Left in the altar were "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," "Hugo," "War Horse" along with "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."

Because Academy Award voters can nominate twice as much best-picture contenders (new guidelines mean hard be not less than personal training motion pictures as well as a optimum associated with 10) as could SAG nominators, those excluded shows usually are not really beyond this contest yet. But the actresses branch on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts in addition to Sciences is a largest bloc inside the organization, significance the particular SAG voters have a very heavy overlap by using Oscar pickers.

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SAG's ensemble winner isn't sure connected with reproducing as the top video at the Oscars, either. Last year, this actors' union bestowed it's top winning prize on "The King's Speech," that proceeded to help succeed the top picture Oscar. But inside earlier ages SAG honored "Inglourious Basterds" (when the most effective photograph Oscar attended "The Hurt Locker"), "Little Miss Sunshine" (when "The Departed" claimed your huge Academy Award) and "Sideways" (when the very best Oscar was presented to be able to "Million Dollar Baby").

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Photo: Viola Davis in "The Help." Credit: DreamWorks.