Behold the SAG Awards Braveheart Rule
Sandwiched between various at-odds critics group awards and tomorrow’s Golden Globe nominations, the announcement this morning of SAG’s five candidates for “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture” is a welcome respite. That’s because only once at the very outset of the history of the guild honors has a film not nominated in the Cast category gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Will Hugo or Extremely Loud… pull off the upset and, like Braveheart in 1995, leapfrog over a SAG snub to claim the 2011 Oscar for Best Picture? Unlikely.
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