SAG Nominations: SAG Thinks The Acting In Babel Is Quite Good

Now it's officially 2007, the official 2007 awards season can officially start. For you that means little to nothing, but for the Hollywood community it's a chance to praise itself for making all sorts of self-important films that nobody watched anyway.

The latest big landmark in awards season was the announcement of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards. This is where people who get paid to dress up in false noses, strange wigs and put on inexplicable accents to try and convince people that they live in South Africa get to decide who did the best at acting over the last 12 months. And, for what it's worth, SAG seems to think that the actors in Babel, Dreamgirls and Little Miss Sunshine are the best at acting out of all the actors that act today.

The members of SAG are not like normal people. When SAG members watch a film they only concentrate on the acting, and their post-screening conversation usually tends to go "That was some very good acting," "It was good acting, but it wasn't great acting," "You're right. Seven out of ten for acting. Seven. Did you write that down, Graham?" because at the end of the year 2,100 randomly-selected members of SAG are asked to vote for the actors they liked the most in order to compile the SAG Awards nominations.

Yesterday the SAG Awards nominations were announced, and it's beginning to look like Babel might be this year's Brokeback Mountain, only with less gay cowboys and more dire warnings that if you don't sit completely still for the rest of your life you'll set off an unstoppable chain of events resulting in Cate Blanchett being shot and Brad Pitt crying down a telephone. Babel has already scored big at the Golden Globes nominations and was named as one of the top ten movies of the year by the National Board Of Review and the SAG Awards nominations treated Babel equally kindly, shortlisting both Rinko Kikuchi and Adriana Barraza for the Best Supporting Actress award and giving the entire Babel cast a nod in the Ensemble category.

But Babel wasn't the only movie to get three SAG Awards nominations. Dreamgirls – the movie where Beyonce and an American Idol runner-up try and out-warble each other – also picked up SAG Awards nominations for possible Mel B impregnator Eddie Murphy for Best Supporting Actor, Jennifer Hudson for Best Supporting Actress and the cast for Ensemble. And finally Little Miss Sunshine also got three SAG Awards nominations – Alan Arkin for Best Supporting Actor, Abigail Breslin for Best Supporting Actor and everyone else got the inevitable Ensemble nod.

Have you noticed that all the names so far have been supporting actors? Us too. Here's the full list of 2007 SAG Awards nominations:

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole – Venus
Will Smith – The Pursuit Of Happyness
Forest Whitaker – The Last King Of Scotland

Best Actress
Penelope Cruz – Volver
Judi Dench – Notes On A Scandal
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet – Little Children

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed
Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children
Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls

Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza – Babel
Cate Blanchett – Notes On A Scandal
Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

Best Ensemble
Babel

Bobby

The Departed

Dreamgirls

Little Miss Sunshine

There were also SAG Awards nominations for TV shows as well, but they're all the ones you expected anyway so we won't bother. But, hey, at least Ben Affleck isn't up for anything.

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