Dark
showbiz comedy 'Birdman' leads SAG film award
nominations
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[December 11, 2014]
By Eric Kelsey
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.
(Reuters) - The cast of dark existential comedy
"Birdman" led the Screen Actors Guild film award
nominations on Wednesday, earning four nods from its
peers in the kick-off of the Hollywood awards season.
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"Birdman" was followed by coming-of-age chronicle "Boyhood,"
biographical drama "The Theory of Everything" and World War Two
drama "The Imitation Game," with three nominations each.
Those films, along with the Wes Anderson comedy "The Grand
Budapest Hotel," each scored a nomination for best ensemble
cast, the top film prize handed out by the organization.
Notable omissions were the World War Two story "Unbroken" and
the Martin Luther King biopic "Selma."
"Birdman," about a has-been Hollywood star bent on reviving his
career on the stage, netted nominations for Michael Keaton (best
actor), Emma Stone (best supporting actress) and Edward Norton
(best supporting actor).
"An ensemble like this hardly ever comes around, and all of us
made this very unique film work - (led) by our maestro, director
Alejandro Inarritu," Keaton said in a statement.
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Early Oscar favorites Julianne Moore ("Still Alice") and Reese
Witherspoon ("Wild") earned best actress nominations along with
Jennifer Aniston ("Cake").
Golden Globe nominations will be announced on Thursday.
More than 100,000 actors vote on the SAG Awards, which will be
handed out on Jan. 25 in Los Angeles.
They are one of the most closely watched honors because actors
comprise the largest voting bloc for February's Academy Awards.
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British actor Benedict Cumberbatch earned a best actor nod for his
role as World War Two code-cracker Alan Turing in "The Imitation
Game," while co-star Keira Knightley received a best supporting
actress nomination.
Director Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," which was shot over a dozen
years, scored nominations for Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette for
supporting actor and actress.
British actor Eddie Redmayne was nominated for best actor for his
role as physicist Stephen Hawking in biopic "The Theory of
Everything." Co-star Felicity Jones also earned a best actress
nomination for her role as Hawking's wife, Jane Wilde Hawking.
"Foxcatcher," a biographical drama about DuPont heir John du Pont,
who murdered the brother of Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, picked up
nods for best actor for Steve Carell and best supporting actor for
Mark Ruffalo.
In the television category, ABC's irreverent comedy "Modern Family"
earned the most nominations with four, including best cast in a
comedy series.
(Editing by Mary Milliken and Lisa Von Ahn)
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