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Blanchett Leads Oscar Race
Cate Blanchett is on the way to winning her second Academy Award in
three years, but Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman had their Oscar
hopes dashed today.
The Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination ceremony, a key indicator
for next months Oscars, was held in West Hollywood this morning
with Blanchett scoring two nominations.
Australians Toni Collette and Alan Dale were also nominated.
Watts, for her performance in The Painted Veil and Kidman
for Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, were both
snubbed by SAG voters.
With Watts and Kidman also receiving the cold shoulder from Golden
Globe voters last month and other key Hollywood awards, it is
likely both actresses will receive the same treatment from Oscar
voters.
Blanchett, however, confirmed her place as one of the worlds top
actresses and a favourite for the February 25 Oscar ceremony with
todays SAG nomination.
The chameleon actress was nominated by SAG in the best supporting
actress category for her knock-down, drag-out performance as a
British schoolteacher involved in a sexual tryst with a student in
Notes on a Scandal.
Blanchett is competing with her Babel co-stars Adriana Barraza and
Rinko Kikuchi, Little Miss Sunshines Abigail Breslin and
Jennifer Hudson of Dreamgirls for the best supporting
SAG.
Blanchett is a proven favourite of SAG and Oscar voters.
She won a best supporting actress SAG and Oscar in 2005 for her
portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in the Martin Scorsese epic, The
Aviator.
The SAG Awards, voted on by more than 100,000 actors, are different
to other major Hollywood award shows because the casts of movies
and TV shows are honoured.
Blanchett and her castmates from Babel, including Brad
Pitt, Barraza and Kikuchi, were nominated in the outstanding
performance by a cast in a motion picture.
The Babel cast is competing with Collette and her cast
from the black comedy, Little Miss Sunshine.
The other ensembles nominated in the category were
Dreamgirls, The Departed and Bobby.
Former Neighbours TV star Dale was nominated along with
his Ugly Betty castmates in the ensemble for a comedy TV
series SAG category.
Ugly Betty is up against the cast from Desperate
Housewives, Entourage, The Office and
Weeds.
In other key SAG Award categories, the best actor race in a motion
picture is an interesting one with Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood
Diamond), Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), Peter OToole
(Venus), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness) and Forest Whitaker
(The King of Scotland) nominated.
The best actress in a motion picture category is between Penelope
Cruz (Volver), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Helen
Mirren (The Queen), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) and Kate
Winslet (Little Children).
The SAG Awards winners will be announced on January 28 at Los
Angeles Shrine auditorium.
The Oscar nominees will be announced on January 23.
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