On Dec. 11, the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ) announced its top contenders for the 20th annual SAG Awards.
The film 12 Years A Slave led the movie field with four nominations—best ensemble, best male actor ( Chewitel Ejiofor ), best supporting male actor ( Michael Fassbender ) and best supporting female actor ( Lupita Nyong'o )—while Breaking Bad received the same number of nods in the area of television ( best actor, best actress, best ensemble and stunt ensemble ).
Among film nominees, best actor nods went to Bruce Dern ( Nebraska ), Chiwetel Ejiofor ( 12 Years A Slave ), Tom Hanks ( Captain Phillips ), Matthew McConaughey ( Dallas Buyers Club ) and Forest Whitaker ( Lee Daniels' The Butler ). Leading actress nominations include Cate Blanchett ( Blue Jasmine ), Sandra Bullock ( Gravity ), Meryl Streep ( August: Osage County ), Emma Thompson ( Saving Mr. Banks ) and Judi Dench ( Philomena ).
Television nominees are divided into dramatic and comedic categories. Among the actors receiving nods are Kevin Spacey ( House of Cards ), Claire Danes ( Homeland ), Kerry Washington ( Scandal ), out actor Jim Parsons ( The Big Bang Theory ) and Tina Fey ( 30 Rock ).
Behind the Candelabra, an HBO movie about the life of Liberace, scored nods for leads Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.
The Huffington Post noted that snubs included Robert Redford as well as the casts of The Wolf of Wall Street and Saving Mr. Banks.
In addition, multiple award winner Rita Morena will receive the Screen Actors Guild 50th Annual Life Achievement Award.
The ceremony will take place Jan. 18, 2014.
The day after the SAG nominations were named, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominees for the 71st annual Golden Globes.
Many of the same productions and individuals who received SAG nods also received Golden Globe nominations, including Ejiofor, McConaughey, Parsons, Bullock, Washington, Douglas, Damon and Blanchett.
However, there were some notable surprises and snubs here as well. CBS News noted that Oprah Winfrey was not acknowledged for her role in Lee Daniels' The Butler, although she got a SAG nod. ( On the flip side, Redford received a nomination here for All Is Lost. ) Regarding TV, Homeland came up empty although it swept the Globes earlier this year. Also, Mad Men and Game of Thrones did not receive nominations. However, Orange Is the New Black's Taylor Schilling did get a nomination, although the show did not.
The Golden Globes will be handed out Jan. 12, 2014, on NBC.
