Every year, the most important precursors shake the race. The guilds, namely SAG and PGA. The Screen Actors Guild is on Sunday, and the Producers Guild announces tomorrow. The two films that are truly seeking Oscar gold are
Silver Linings Playbooks and
Lincoln, based on number of nominations.
Argo is also one one more contender that is missing the all-precious directors nomination that is restraining a potential Oscar victory.
PGA Prediction:
Lincoln
SAG (Best Cast) Prediction:
Silver Linings Playbook
This weekend can mark a weekend of great change. In 2006,
Little Miss Sunshine won the PGA, and became a hopeful to a true contender. It lost the Golden Globe and was mainly skunked out of a directing nomination. 2006's PGA also marked the beginning of the end of
Dreamgirls.
2006 was one of the more messy years in recent memory, and I would like to see a major upset within this weekend. Like
Zero Dark Thirty winning the PGA, but that's all just a dream.
The actors in SAG are in the Academy, the same won that gave four acting nominations to
Silver Linings Playbook. This is the same Academy that gave 3 acting nominations to
The Master, and 1 SAG nomination. Still,
Silver Linings Playbook is an actors piece, and it is a piece that is quite popular. Still,
Silver Linings will probably win the big prize in this shindig. This probably means they will give the Best Actress prize to Jennifer Lawrence's very good work in
Silver Linings Playbook instead of Jessica Chastain's powerhouse work in
Zero Dark Thirty.
Complete SAG predictions below:
Best Actor- Daniel Day-Lewis,
Lincoln
Best Actress- Jennifer Lawrence,
Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actor- No idea. Hoping for an upset, so Phillip Seymour Hoffman,
The Master (No
Django nominees)
Best Supporting Actress- Anne Hathaway,
Les Miserables (duh!)
More after the jump discussing this weekend's significance.
