SAG Award Nominations Announced

The actors union will honor this year's best in movies and on TV at a Jan. 25 ceremony to air live on TBS and TNY

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Hollywood stepped into high gear first thing Wednesday morning with the announcement of 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Presented by the actors union, SAG-AFTRA, the awards – to be given Jan. 25 – honor acting in film and TV in thirteen categories. Among the nominees:

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
“Birdman”
“Boyhood”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
“The Theory of Everything”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Naomi Watts, Birdman

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Previously it was announced that Singin’ in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown star Debbie Reynolds, 82, would receive SAG’s Life Achievement Award.

For a complete list of nominees, click here.

The 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will simultaneously air live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015.

Next up: Thursday’s announcement of the nominees for the 2015 Golden Globe Awards (for the ceremony Jan. 11), and the Jan. 15 announcement of the Academy Award nominations, in anticipation of the Feb. 22 Oscar ceremony.

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