"The Power of the Dog" has already won the Golden Globe for Best Dramatic Film this week and its lead actors, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee, have all been selected by SAG Awards voters.
The competitors of Jane Campion's film can breathe, however: it was not selected in the flagship category of "best distribution".
Shown at the award-winning New Zealand director at the Venice Film Festival last September, "The Power of the Dog" received rave reviews and has since been released worldwide on Netflix after a limited theatrical release. .
The Jane Campion film and Ridley Scott's film received a total of three nominations each.
The approximately 124,000 potential voters of the SAG Awards clearly ignored the mocking comments that greeted the performance of Jared Leto and his earthy Italian accent in "House of Gucci".
He was selected in the Best Supporting Actor category and will defend the colors of Ridley Scott's film alongside Lady Gaga and the entire cast.
Also in the running in this last category, which is equivalent for the SAG Awards to that of the best feature film, we find the actors of "Belfast", "CODA", "Don't Look Up: Cosmic Denial" and "The Williams Method. ".
'Belfast', in which Kenneth Branagh reflects on the North Irish violence he witnessed as a young man, is considered by pundits to be one of the favorites of this awards season but only got one nomination individual, for actress Caitriona Balfe.
Another surprise of the SAG Awards, Kristen Stewart was not selected for her role of Princess Diana in "Spencer", nor the young Rachel Zegler for the remake of "West Side Story".
The SAG Awards are awarded by actors and as such are considered a very good indicator for the Oscars because the actors constitute the most numerous college (around 10,000) within the Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences which awards these rewards.
On the television side, the series "Succession" and "Ted Lasso" came out on top of the nominations, with five each.
The South Korean series "Squid Game" is present in the category of the best distribution, a first at the SAG for a series not using English.
The SAG Awards will be presented in Santa Monica, near Los Angeles, on February 27, exactly one month before the Oscars.
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