SAG Nominations

The Screen Actors Guild nominees for 2006 are (with my prediction scores):

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

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)

4/5. Predicted Baron Cohen instead of Gosling. Nice boost here for the indie favorite. Watanabe still missing despite acclaim for the film and his performance.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Penelope Cruz (Volver)
Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal)
Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
Kate Winslet (Little Children)

5/5. Shaping up to be the most boringly predictable category this year.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed)
Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children)
Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond)
Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls)

2/5. Left out Arkin, Haley, and Hounsou for Nicholson (where is he?!), Pitt, and Sheen. This category is the most confusing. I personally liked neither Arkin's nor Haley's performances, but apparently the actors do. I hope category confusion with his role in The Departed doesn't hurt DiCaprio's chances for an Oscar nom.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Adriana Barraza (Babel)
Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal)
Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)

4/5. They sure love the Babel girls. I predicted O'Hara instead of Barraza, though of course the latter deserves all the attention. Boost for generally ignored Breslin, though Dakota Fanning was also nominated before for I Am Sam but didn't make the Oscar cut.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE

Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine

3/5. Silly me, left out Little Miss Sunshine at the last minute for Letters from Iwo Jima, and disregarded the uber actor-movie Bobby for Notes on a Scandal. Still, this lineup will hardly translate into the Oscar noms for Best Picture.

The full official list, including TV nominations, is here.