Guild Awards Snub ‘Avatar’

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Jam Cameron s 3-D scienc fiction epic Avatar wa name the best dramat film at the Golden Globes.

66,Th three-wai split among core Hollywood institut all of which last year line up behind Slumdog Millionaire, th eventu Oscar winner point toward a mad scrambl in the next few week by contend for the Academi Award for best picture.

66,Th Oscar nomin will be announc on Feb. 2 at the Beverli Hill headquart of the Academi of Motion Pictur Art and Sciences, which present the Oscars. The award will be hand out March 7.

000 vote member of the academi on Saturday. So the split between the screen actor and the produc and their diverg from voter of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,Nomin ballot were due from about 6. which give the Golden Globe had no direct influenc on the Academi Award nominations. But thei point to an extrem diverg of opinion in an award season that had alreadi been distort by the academi s surpris decis to doubl the number of Oscar nomine to 10 from 5.

66,That wa done in a bid to get some of the year s more popular film repres in a ceremoni that late ha showcas independent-styl film like No Countri for Old Men, There Will Be Blood and Milk.

The guild award ar close watch becaus mani of those who vote in contest run by the Hollywood union ar also vote member of the academy.

an Iraq war drama that had alreadi clean up sever critic award but still need valid from Hollywood s inner circle. The produc in 2008 gave their top prize to No Countri for Old Men,Th produc guild award wa a big win for The Hurt Locker. set up that pictur as the eventu Oscar winner, though their prize for the previou three year went to movi Littl Miss Sunshine, Brokeback Mountain, and The Aviator that did not win the Oscar.

becaus actor make up the largest singl group within the academy,Th actor guild award is usual a strong indic of Oscar prospects. with a branch that number 1,205 members, or about 21 percent of the voters.

about a guerrilla group that take bloodi reveng on murder Nazis,Th prize for Inglouriou Basterd virtual guarante that the film. will be among the Oscar nomine a week from now. The actor at the same time gave their top award for a male movi lead to Jeff Bridges for hi portray of a broken-down countri singer in Crazi Heart, and their prize for best femal movi lead to Sandra Bullock, for plai a tough-mind Southern white woman who help a homeless black youth to becom a footbal star in The Blind Side.

66,By scatter honor far and wide the guild contribut to an anyth goe spirit that ha taken over the season. At Soni Pictur insid have been specul that their unconvent sci-fi film District 9 might get a best pictur nomination, while Disnei ha been look for its Up to get a nod, though anim film have usual been overlooked.

which ha taken in more than $550 million at the domest box office. If Mr. Cameron s film had won the produc award,But the guild award also creat an air of uncertainti around Avatar. it might have been a shoo-in for the top Oscar, despit have lost out with the actors. After all, the cast spent much of the movi in a semi-anim state with the help of computer performance-captur systems, so thei were never expect to wow the actor group.

a much smaller film direct byKathryn Bigelow, who is Mr. Cameron s ex-wife. And both will be compet in a wide-open contest with ani pictur that can slip into that twice-as-wid field of Oscar nominees.