Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans, Irish tragic comedy The Banshees of Inisherin and the zany Everything Everywhere All At Once earned several major nominations on Wednesday from actors’ unions and American directors in a position to vote meddle in the race for the Oscars.
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The day after the Golden Globes, which largely rewarded these three films, the American Actors’ Union (SAG) and Directors’ Union (DGA) announced the nominations for the awards they organized, which were widely followed to determine which productions made it to the Advance are ahead of the Oscars, which take place on March 12th.
The three feature films are each nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Casting, the equivalent of Best Picture at the SAG Awards, ahead of Babylon and Women Talking.
Overall, The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once are each nominated in five categories by the Actors’ Union.
The tragic Irish comedy, which recounts the abrupt end of a friendship on an imaginary island in the 1920s, earns a Best Actor nomination for Colin Farrell, previously a Golden Globe nominee for his role as a tormented islander.
The other actors Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon are also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Also a Golden Globes winner, Everything Everywhere All At Once star Michelle Yeoh is nominated for Best Actress for her role in this surreal comedy, in which she plays a laundromat owner exhausted by her administrative problems suddenly confronted with the existence of parallel universes.
Actors Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu, who play the other leading roles, are nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
“The Fabelmans,” in which Paul Dano plays Steven Spielberg’s father as he adrift witnesses his couple’s demise and his son’s dreaded cinema obsession, is itself also nominated for the SAG Awards, which takes place on February 26.
But the actors’ union has surprisingly snubbed Michelle Williams, who plays the director’s mother on screen.
Winning Best Director at the Golden Globes, Mr. Spielberg was also nominated by the Union of American Directors (DGA) on Wednesday for his film, which was largely inspired by his childhood. As did filmmakers Martin McDonagh and Daniel Kwan, respectively, most recently in The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The trio will join directors Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) and Todd Field (Tar) at the DGA Awards on February 18.
In the Best First Feature category, the syndicate nominated two French directors: Alice Diop for Saint Omer and Audrey Diwan for L’Événement.
On Wednesday, streaming giant Netflix also announced it would air the SAG Awards on its YouTube page this year before airing the 2024 awards on its platform. The award of the American actors’ union thus positions itself as a direct competitor to the Golden Globes, which has been mired in accusations of racism, sexism and corruption for two years.