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IT'S AWARD SEASON !!!

Praise Buddha!

In the first of what will stretch to at least nine hundred such shows and lists!

It's the 2012 

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

•  BRADLEY COOPER / Pat - “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” (The Weinstein Company) 
• DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Abraham Lincoln - "LINCOLN” (Touchstone Pictures)
•  JOHN HAWKES / Mark - "THE SESSIONS" (Fox Searchlight) 
• HUGH JACKMAN / Jean Valjean - "LES MISÉRABLES" (Universal Pictures)
•  DENZEL WASHINGTON / Whip Whitaker - "FLIGHT" (Paramount Pictures)

 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

•  JESSICA CHASTAIN / Maya - "ZERO DARK THIRTY” (Columbia Pictures) 
• MARION COTILLARD / Stephanie - “RUST AND BONE” (Sony Pictures Classics) 
• JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Tiffany - “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” (The Weinstein Company) 
• HELEN MIRREN / Alma Reville - “HITCHCOCK” (Fox Searchlight)
•  NAOMI WATTS / Maria - “THE IMPOSSIBLE” (Summit Entertainment)

 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

•  ALAN ARKIN / Lester Siegel - “ARGO” (Warner Bros. Pictures) 
• JAVIER BARDEM / Silva - "SKYFALL" (Columbia Pictures) 
• ROBERT DE NIRO / Pat, Sr. - "SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK" (The Weinstein Company) 
• PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN / Lancaster Dodd - “THE MASTER” (The Weinstein Company)
•  TOMMY LEE JONES / Thaddeus Stevens - “LINCOLN” (Touchstone Pictures)

 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

•  SALLY FIELD / Mary Todd Lincoln - "LINCOLN" (Touchstone Pictures) 
• ANNE HATHAWAY / Fantine - “LES MISÉRABLES” (Universal Pictures)
•  HELEN HUNT / Cheryl - “THE SESSIONS” (Fox Searchlight) 
• NICOLE KIDMAN / Charlotte Bless - "THE PAPERBOY” (Millennium Entertainment) 
• MAGGIE SMITH / Muriel Donnelly - “THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL” (Fox Searchlight)