Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” scored a record seven nominations Wednesday for The Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards, including a nod in the top category of best ensemble cast, while Seth Rogen’s freshman comedy “The Studio” topped the TV nominees with five.
Nominated along with “One Battle After Another” for best ensemble film cast — the Actor Awards equivalent of best picture — were “Frankenstein,” “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme,” and “Sinners.”
“One Battle” also landed nodes for best actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, best actress for Chase Infiniti, supporting actor for Benecio Del Toro and Sean Penn and supporting actress for Teyana Taylor.
Also vying for the best actor will be Timothée Chalamet for “Marty Supreme,” Ethan Hawke for “Blue Moon,” Michael B. Jordan for his dual role in “Sinners” and Jesse Plemons for “Bugonia.”
Along with Infiniti, nominations for lead actress went to Jessie Buckley for “Hamnet,” Rose Byrne for “If I Had Legs I’d Kill You,” Kate Hudson for “Song Sung Blue” and Emma Stone for “Bugonia.”
Chalamet and Buckley both won the top acting honors Sunday at the Critics Choice Awards.
Among television nominees, Apple TV+’s “The Studio” — which won a record 13 Emmy Awards in September — was nominated for outstanding ensemble cast in a comedy series, along with ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” FX’s “The Bear,” HBO’s “Hacks” and Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.”
Nominations for outstanding drama series ensemble went to Netflix’s “The Diplomat,” Paramount+’s “Landman,” HBO’s “The Pitt,” Apple TV+’s “Severance” and HBO’s “The White Lotus.”
“The Pitt” star Noah Wyle was nominated for best male actor in a drama series, as were Sterling K. Brown for “Paradise,” Billy Crudup for “The Morning Show,” Walton Goggins for “The White Lotus” and Gary Oldman for “Slow Horses.”
For lead actress in a drama, nominations went to Britt Lower for “Severance,” Parker Posey and Aimee Lou Wood for “The White Lotus,” Keri Russell for “The Diplomat” and Rhea Seehorn for “Pluribus.”
Comedy series actress nominations went to Kathryn Hahn and Catherine O’Hara for “The Studio,” Jenna Ortega for “Wednesday,” Jean Smart for “Hacks” and Kristen Wiig for “Palm Royale.”
“The Studio” creator Seth Rogen was nominated for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series, along with his co-star, Ike Barinholtz. Also nominated were Adam Brody for “Nobody Wants This,” Ted Danson for “A Man on the Inside” and Martin Short for “Only Murders in the Building.”
The Actor Awards will be presented March 1 at the Shrine Auditorium, streaming live on Netflix.
The awards have often been deemed the most coveted among performers, since they are voted upon solely by other actors.
Harrison Ford, who personified two of cinema’s most iconic characters in Han Solo and Indiana Jones, will receive the 61st SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award during the event to recognize his career and humanitarian work. The award honors a performer who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” according to SAG-AFTRA.
SAG-AFTRA announced in November that the annual awards show’s name was being changed to “The Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA.” The guild noted that after SAG merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union in 2012, becoming SAG-AFTRA, the awards show maintained the name SAG Awards. With the new name, “we’re finally able to fully recognize that merger and align it with the name of our statuette, The Actor,” according to the guild.