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One Battle After Another and The Studio lead the nominations for this year’s Actor awards.
The Actor awards were previously known as the Screen Actors Guild (Sag) awards but were renamed last year. The name change was to provide “clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about”, according to those involved.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy thriller received seven nominations for cast members Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Benicio del Toro, Teyana Taylor and Sean Penn as well as for the acting and stunt ensemble.
The $130m-budget film was also named best picture at last weekend’s Critics Choice awards and leads the nominations for this weekend’s Golden Globes.
The film was followed by Ryan Coogler’s smash-hit vampire horror Sinners which received five nominations.
The two films will battle it out in the ensemble category with Frankenstein, Marty Supreme and Hamnet.
DiCaprio is up against Sinners’ Michael B Jordan for lead actor alongside Blue Moon’s Ethan Hawke, Bugonia’s Jesse Plemons and Marty Supreme’s Timothée Chalamet.
In the lead actress category, Infiniti faces If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’s Rose Byrne, Bugonia’s Emma Stone, Song Sung Blue’s Kate Hudson and Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley.
In the supporting actor category, Del Toro and Penn face Sinners’ breakout Miles Caton, Frankenstein’s Jacob Elordi and Hamnet’s Paul Mescal.
In the supporting actress category, Taylor faces Sinners’ Wunmi Mosaku, Weapons’ Amy Madigan, Marty Supreme’s Odessa A’zion and Wicked: For Good’s Ariana Grande.
In the film categories, notable snubs include Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent, Joel Edgerton for Train Dreams, Dwayne Johnson for The Smashing Machine and actors from Sentimental Value.
The small screen side is led by Apple’s breakout comedy series The Studio which received five nominations for actors Seth Rogen, Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O’Hara and Ike Barinholtz as well as an ensemble nod.
The comedy ensemble category also includes Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks and last year’s winner Only Murders in the Building.
In the lead comedy actress category, Hahn and O’Hara will compete against Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega, Palm Royale’s Kristen Wiig and Hacks’ Jean Smart, who has won the award three times before.
For lead comedy actor, Rogen and Barinholtz are up against Nobody Wants This’s Adam Brody, A Man on the Inside’s Ted Danson and last year’s winner Martin Short for Only Murders in the Building.
While The Bear received an ensemble nomination, it didn’t score any individual actor nominations after years of being an awards heavyweight.
The drama categories were led by The White Lotus which received four nominations for Parker Posey, Aimee Lou Wood, Walton Goggins and the ensemble cast.
The drama ensemble category also includes The Diplomat, Landman, The Pitt and Severance.
In the drama actress category, Posey and Wood will be up against Severance’s Britt Lower and Rhea Seehorn for the first season of Apple’s acclaimed hit Pluribus.
For actor in a drama, Goggins faces off against The Morning Show’s Billy Crudup, The Pitt’s Noah Wyle, Paradise’s Sterling K Brown and Slow Horses’ Gary Oldman.
The final seasons of Stranger Things and Squid Game were only nominated for stunt ensemble in a TV show.
The limited series or television movies categories saw an impressive showing for Netflix’s breakout drama Adolescence which scored four nominations for actors Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty, Owen Cooper and Christine Tremarco.
Graham and Cooper will compete alongside Black Rabbit’s Jason Bateman, Monster’s Charlie Hunnam and The Beast in Me’s Matthew Rhys.
Doherty and Tremarco face All Her Fault’s Sarah Snook, Dying for Sex’s Michelle Williams and The Beast in Me’s Claire Danes.
Last year saw big wins for Chalamet, Demi Moore, Colin Farrell and the ensembles of Conclave and Shōgun.
The awards, which are voted on by over 160,000 actors, are seen as an indication of which way the Oscars will go. The acting branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the biggest voting bloc.
This year’s ceremony, airing on Netflix, will take place on 1 March.
