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The ensemble SAG Award is sometimes a trusted harbinger involving the best image Academy Award race, as well as Wednesday's nominations from your Screen Actors Guild solidified this push connected with some the actual year's presumed Oscar favorites, including "The Descendants," "The Artist" as well as "The Help." But the SAG selections slighted several presumed contenders plus gave innovative wish to one film that seemed until quite lately just like a good Oscar longshot "Bridesmaids."

Because the particular SAG Awards do not have a best-picture category, your guild's dress and bag winning prize is usually its surrogate. The personal trainer recommendations in that category this year ended up pertaining to "The Artist," "The Descendants," "The Help," "Midnight within Paris" and, from a moderate surprise, the raunchy humor "Bridesmaids." Left along at the altar have been "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," "Hugo," "War Horse" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."

Because Academy Award voters can nominate two times countless best-picture contenders (new principles necessarily mean we will have not less than five videos and also a maximum connected with 10) because can SAG nominators, those people omitted video clips usually are not always out from the contest yet. But your actors branch with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts plus Sciences will be the major bloc in the organization, meaning the actual SAG voters have a very heavy overlap by using Oscar pickers.

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SAG's set of clothing champion isn't guaranteed connected with repeating because the best film in the Oscars, either. Last year, that actors' marriage bestowed it has the top reward on "The King's Speech," which often proceeded to acquire the most beneficial picture Oscar. But in prior several years SAG honored "Inglourious Basterds" (when the top graphic Oscar attended "The Hurt Locker"), "Little Miss Sunshine" (when "The Departed" maintained the particular massive Academy Award) plus "Sideways" (when the top end Oscar was offered in order to "Million Dollar Baby").

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