Friday, February 3, 2012

"The Help" and "The Artist" on Oscar-course

When it comes to the actor Oscars, subject to the annual price of U.S. actors union as virtually infallible indicator. Three of the coveted SAG Awards went to the ensemble of the Southern drama "The Help", Jean Dujardin in "The Artist" was named best actor.
Los Angeles - There are only four weeks until the 84th Academy Awards, the awards season in Hollywood is coming to its dramatic conclusion. One of the last milestones on the "road to the Oscars" is the annual awarding of the SAG Awards. The Screen Actors Guild, one of the largest and most influential actors of the United States elects associations, with their prices, the best performances from their own ranks. Similar to the prices of the PGA is also powerful, the Producers Guild, the SAG Awards are a very concrete indicator for the Oscars. In recent years, SAG winner a month later, very often even Oscar-winner.



One can thus make his own sense of it, what it means for the Oscars, the actor playing the Southern drama "The Help" were awarded on Sunday evening with the award for best acting ensemble. Viola Davis was awarded the trophy for best actress, her colleague Octavia Spencer was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Striking: only the African-American performers of devotional based on a best-selling story about racism in the sixties are being honored with awards and nominations. Actress Emma Stone has been studiously ignored, her colleague Jessica Chastain was after all, nominated alongside Spencer, for Best Supporting Actress for an Oscar. Viola Davis comes to the Oscars in the Best Actress category. The stage actress can now work out the best chances against Hollywood heavyweights like Meryl Streep and Glenn Close.The Oscar-nominated Streep, Close and Michelle Williams were also nominated at the SAG Awards, as well as Tilda Swinton ("We Need To Talk About Kevin"), which was ignored at the Academy Awards - in favor of "The Girl" star Rooney Mara .
Among the male actors Jean Dujardin was awarded the grand prize. The Frenchman played the leading role in the silent movie homage "The Artist", which, with ten nominations for the Oscar favorites. Dujardin had received two weeks ago, already a Golden Globe for Best Actor - his Oscar chances rise now immense.
By setting he had on Sunday against Brad Pitt ("Moneyball"), Leonardo DiCaprio ("J. Edgar"), George Clooney ("The Descendants") and the Mexican actor Demián Bichir ("A Better Life"). After all, Hoover Starring DiCaprio was nominated at the SAG Awards, the Oscars, he received the surprise of many experts and critics of any nomination. But at the SAG Awards is striking to learn that two of the most important and most talented actors of the past year, mention any and appreciation: "Shame" actor Michael Fassbender and Ryan Gosling, star of "Drive" and "The Ides of March".
Christopher Plummer was, quite as expected, a SAG Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Beginners". The acting veteran, is also considered the Oscar favorite. In addition to the actors themselves had to Octavia Spencer, inter alia, the favorite Bérénice Bejo from "The Artist" prevailed. Bejo, companion of the "Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius is also nominated for an Oscar for supporting roles.
Each year, the SAG also the best television performances. Here was this time Paul Giamatti ("Sideways") is set for best actor in a TV movie or miniseries. He won for his role in the economic drama "Too Big To Fail" in which he plays the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Best Actress in this category was Kate Winslet for her performance in the mini-series "Mildred Pierce."For best actor Steve Buscemi was nominated series, set in Martin Scorsese's prohibition drama "Boardwalk Empire," a criminal economy Boss, Best Series Actress Jessica Lange was on "American Horror Story." Both Long and Buscemi got their start decades ago in independent cinema, but only now, as a series stars, won awards.
For lifetime U.S. TV veteran Mary Tyler Moore was excellent. The 75-year-old heard since the seventies, when she and the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" fame, was the most influential and popular TV stars of the United States.

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