NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The 30th on Wednesday heaped nominations on 鈥淥ppenheimer," 鈥淏arbie鈥� and 鈥淎merican Fiction,鈥� while snubbing Leonardo DiCaprio for best male actor.
, Greta Gerwig's 鈥淏arbie鈥� and Christopher Nolan's 鈥淥ppenheimer鈥� were again the lead nominees. Each film picked up four nods including best ensemble. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were nominated for their performances in 鈥淏arbie,鈥� while , Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt received nods for 鈥淥ppenheimer.鈥�
continues to rule Hollywood's awards season, just as it did .
got the biggest momentum boost, landing three nods: best ensemble, for best male actor and Sterling K. Brown for supporting male actor.
Along with those three films, and were nominated for best ensemble, the guild's top award.
Most notably left out of that group was which on Sunday won best comedy/musical at the . The film's star, Emma Stone, was nominated for best female actor while Willem Dafoe (but not Mark Ruffalo) was nominated for best supporting male actor.
But those were far from the only snubs in announced by Issa Rae, a co-star in both 鈥淏arbie鈥� and 鈥淎merican Fiction,鈥� and Kumail Nanjiani on Instagram Live.
Nominated for best actor were Bradley Cooper ("Maestro"), ("Rustin"), ("The Holdovers"), Murphy and Wright. DiCaprio had long been seen as a presumed nominee for his performance in Martin Scorsese's 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon.鈥� Lily Gladstone, who is , was among the best female actor nominees, while Robert De Niro was nominated for best supporting male actor.
was completely shut out, as was 鈥淧ast Lives.鈥� co-star of 鈥淢ay December,鈥� was expected to be among the supporting male actors. And neither ("Anatomy of a Fall") nor Fantasia Barrino ("The Color Purple") scored individual nominations.
Along with Gladstone and Stone, the nominees for best female actor are Carey Mulligan ("Maestro") and Annette Bening ("Nyad"). Bening's co-star, Jodie Foster, joined the supporting female actor category which also featured Da鈥橵ine Joy Randolph (鈥淭he Holdovers"), Danielle Brooks (鈥淭he Color Purple鈥�) and Pen茅lope Cruz for 鈥淔errari."
The SAG Awards are closely watched as an Oscar bellwether. Their picks don't always align exactly with those of the film academy, but seldom is a best picture or acting winner not nominated first by SAG. That means any best picture hopes for films like 鈥淧oor Things鈥� just took a hit. 鈥淧ast Lives,鈥� Celine Song's tender love story, also was set back.
The last two best-ensemble winners 鈥� 鈥淓verything Everywhere All at Once鈥� and 鈥淐ODA鈥� 鈥� went on to win best picture at the Oscars.
This year鈥檚 SAG Awards follow by the actors guild SAG-AFTRA that put Hollywood in a months-long battle over its future. and were top issues.
In the television categories, the trio that nearly swept the Golden Globes 鈥� 鈥淪uccession,鈥� 鈥淭he Bear鈥� and 鈥淏eef鈥� 鈥� were again among the lead nominees. 鈥淪uccession鈥� led all series with five nods (though Jeremy Strong was passed over), while 鈥淭he Last of Us,鈥� 鈥淭ed Lasso" and 鈥淭he Bear鈥� all collected four nominations.
The SAG Awards will take place Feb. 24 at the Shine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles. Netflix will live stream the ceremony for the first time. Last year's awards were streamed on Netflix's YouTube account.
The show will mark one of Netflix's most notable forays into live programming. The streamer, which has for years been an awards season force, will first to play host, too, in the runup to the Academy Awards in March.
the SAG Life Achievement Award.
Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
