Is Margot Robbie set to skate into an Oscars win thanks to I, Tonya biopic?
She was pipped for a Golden Globe, took home a Critics’ Choice Award, and now Aussie actor Margot Robbie is in with a chance for a SAG.
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SHE was pipped for a Golden Globe, took home a Critics’ Choice Award, and now Aussie actor Margot Robbie is in with a chance for a SAG.
The Screen Actors Guild Awards which start today in Los Angeles are widely considered by
the industry to be a near-accurate predictor of the Oscars.
Robbie is nominated for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for her work in I, Tonya. Her main rivals are Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird and Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, who both won Golden Globes.
Before she finds out whether she will take home the gong for her stunning role as skater Tonya Harding, Robbie stepped out at the Producers Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday in a black silk dress with plunging neckline.
Nicole Kidman, who took home a Golden Globe award for the best actor in a limited series for her work as Celeste in HBO’s Big Little Lies, is also nominated for a SAG. Geoffrey Rush is nominated for his role as Albert Einstein in Genius.
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The SAGs, to be hosted by Kristen Bell, are decided by the joint Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Arts.
The voting committee comprises similar members to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which decides the Oscars.
Like the Golden Globes, the SAGs are expected to be drama-filled in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
Golden Globe winner James Franco has vowed to attend — he is nominated for outstanding actor for The Disaster Artist — despite sexual misconduct allegations.
But all eyes will be on the SAGs to see who is really an Oscars chance. The Oscars, to again be hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel on March 4, are the most credible of all the Hollywood awards shows.
Nominations will be revealed this week and they are voted on by more than 7000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The Academy is made up of those who work in all aspects of Hollywood — in front and behind the camera — and excludes those who work in the media.