Are Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence Oscar front-runners?
The pair took trophies at the 19th Screen Actors Guild award Sunday night, wins that could give them an edge heading into next month’s Academy Awards.
Day-Lewis won the SAG — and a standing ovation from his peers — for playing the nation’s 16th president in “Lincoln.” Lawrence won her award for female actor in a feature film for the quirky romantic comedy “Silver Linings Playbook.”
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Meanwhile, it was a threepeat night for Claire Danes, Julianne Moore and Kevin Costner.
The performers made it a clean sweep by winning the Emmy, the Golden Globe and now the SAG award for their television work.
Danes won for female actor in a drama series for the political thriller “Homeland.”
Moore’s uncanny performance as 2008 Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin in HBO’s “Game Change” earned her the trophy for female actor in a television movie or miniseries. And Costner nabbed male actor in a television movie or miniseries for History’s “Hatfields & McCoys” but was not present for the win.
In other TV awards, Bryan Cranston won for male actor in a drama series for “Breaking Bad.” “It is so good to be bad,” purred Cranston as he picked up the honor. And PBS' "Downton Abbey" won for ensemble in a drama series.
Earlier, a spry and chipper 87-year-old Dick Van Dyke was honored for a career that has spanned nearly seven decades and is going strong.
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Van Dyke was met with a standing ovation and cheers from his peers. “That does an old man a lot of good,” he said, grinning from ear to ear. He was supposed to receive the life achievement honor from Carl Reiner, who created the seminal 1961-66 CBS series “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” the show that turned Van Dyke into a TV legend, and co-presenter Alec Baldwin from NBC’s “30 Rock.”
But Baldwin ended up doing the honors solo because Reiner was sick with the flu.
“I've knocked around this business for 70 years, but I still haven’t figured out what exactly I do,” Van Dyke cracked during his acceptance speech. He noted that it was great to pick a career “full of surprises and a lot of fun” and one that does “not require growing up.”
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Meanwhile, Baldwin and Tina Fey earned a great parting gift.
The pair took home back-to-back trophies Sunday night at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Award for their lead roles in NBC's “30 Rock.”
Fey used the win to ask people to tune in at 8 Thursday night for the series’ one-hour finale, opposite the highly rated CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”
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“Just tape ‘The Big Bang Theory’ for once, for crying out loud!” Fey pleaded.
The critically acclaimed show had a shot at a hat trick because it was nominated for ensemble cast in a comedy series. But that honor went to ABC’s “Modern Family” for its third consecutive win.
On the movie front, another no-show, Tommy Lee Jones, won supporting actor in a feature film for “Lincoln.” Fresh off her Golden Globes win two weeks ago, Anne Hathaway took the trophy for supporting female actor for playing the tragic Fantine in “Les Miserables,” a win that bolsters her chances of taking the Academy Award next month in the same category.
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Hathaway’s win offers a rare moment of clarity as the highly unpredictable awards season winds down.
“Argo” and “Les Misérables” are the front-runners, fresh off their Golden Globes victories two weeks ago, where they won trophies for dramatic film and comedy or musical. And Saturday night, "Argo" seemingly advanced its Academy Award best picture hopes by winning the Producers Guild Award, considered one of the leading indicators of Oscar gold.
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