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This year the Best Picture category sees 9 films competing for the highest honor. After Guild awards one film has emerged as the front-runner. However that film is not nominated for Best Director and that could potentially lead to a surprise winner on Sunday. Previous winners are "The Artist," "The King's Speech," "The Hurt Locker," "Slumdog Millionaire," and "No Country for Old Men."
The Best Supporting Actor Race is one of the most difficult races to predict this year as three actors have emerged as possible winners. The race is being disputed by five Oscar winners and four actors will go for their second while the fifth actor will go for his third. The last time an actor race was so difficult to predict was in 2007 when 4 Supporting Actresses split the top awards. Past Supporting Actor winners are Christopher Plummer (Beginners), Christian Bale (The Fighter), Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds), Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight), and Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men).
Contrary to popular belief, there's no such thing as President's Day. In fact, the holiday has never has existed on a national level. Rather, the federal holiday dubbed as "President's Day" is legally the celebration of just one US President, George Washington.
The Adapted screenplay category is one of the most contested races this year as it includes five best picture nominees. The award is usually decided after all the precursors have been hand out. However with no consensus it could go to anyone this year. Previous winners have been "The Descendants," "The Social Network," "Precious," "Slumdog Millionaire," "No Country For Old Men," and "The Departed."
A Connecticut congressman has a bone to pick with Steven Spielberg over his 12-time Oscar nominated film, "Lincoln."
The Directors Guild of America held their annual awards ceremony on February 2, with Ben Affleck winning the top prize of the night for his film "Argo."
The 19th annual SAG awards will be aired on TNT and TBS on Jan 27th. The awards show will mark the second guild awards after Saturday's Producer's Guild ceremony.
The SAG awards will air on Jan. 27 at 8pm on TNT and TBS. The SAG awards which are voted by actors and Academy Award members are expected to clear up the acting races at the Oscars.
The Screen Actors Guild Awards have always been a good indicator of who the acting awards will go to at the Oscars. However when it comes to the Ensemble award it can be unpredictable. Sometimes the SAG awards go with the films that will win the Oscar or with a film they want to award the actors for. However a win at the SAG can put a film in the front running position. Recent best picture winners that won the ensemble award include "The King's Speech," "Slumdog Millionaire," "No Country for Old men," and "Crash."
The Screen Actors Guild Awards have always been a good indicator of who the acting awards will go to at the Oscars. This year, however, only 14 out of 20 SAG nominees matched the corresponding Oscar categories. Still the actors who are currently frontrunners for their respective categories were nominated and should continue to get a huge boost from a SAG win.
The Producers Guild of America is thought to be one the most important awards for a film in order to win the Best Picture accolade at the Academy Award. This year, the guild chose ten films of which eight are nominated for Best Picture at the Oscar.
"Zero Dark Thirty" scored the top spot at the box office beating out new releases "Gangster Squad" and low budget spoof film "A Haunted House."
The Golden Globes were handed out on Jan. 13 with many surprises shaking up the race as well as many predictable choices.
On Jan. 10th the Critics Choice Awards named "Argo" the Best Film of the Year. The film also received the Best Director accolade for Ben Affleck.
The British Academy Awards were announced this morning with Lincoln, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty scoring best picture nominations.
