Awards season has kicked into high gear with the Dec. 12 announcements of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations.
In the movie sector, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook got four nominations each.
Among the film actors receiving nods were Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln), Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables), Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables), Helen Mirren (Hitchcock) and Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty).
A couple surprise nominees inlcuded Nicole Kidman, for her turn in out gay director Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy; and Javier Bardem, who plays a sexually ambiguous villain in the James Bond movie Skyfall.
In the television categories, Modern Family was the most nominated show with four, followed by 30 Rock, which scored three nods in its final season. Homeland, Downton Abbey and the HBO movie Game Change also received three nominations each.
One of the most hotly contested TV categories is “Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series,” which includes Claire Danes (Homeland), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Asylum), Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) and Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey).
The SAG Awards will be presented Jan. 27.