‘Trumbo’ leads US Screen Actors Guild film awards with 3 nods

Dean O’Gorman as Kirk Douglas in a scene from Trumbo.

Trumbo opens in New Zealand cinemas on December 26. The nominees for both the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards and the Golden Globe are out and the British actor is nominated for the Best Supporting Actor in both races for his role in the movie Beasts of No Nation.

In the category of outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture, the nominees are the teams that worked on “Everest”, “Furious 7”, “Jurassic World”, “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and “Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation”.

Winners will be announced when the SAG Awards air on Saturday, January 30, 2016. Or Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, which missed out on the SAG nominations because screeners weren’t sent.

The first signs of awards season are nominee announcements, and there’s cause to celebrate in the Straight Outta Compton camp.

It’s hard to know exactly what to make of Wednesday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations.

Ronan was honoured for her role as a homesick immigrant in Brooklyn, as well as Cate Blanchett for Carol, Brie Larson for Room and Sarah Silverman for I Smile Back.

On the other hand, the lead actress category was relatively predictable – minus Jennifer Lawrence, who was not nominated for her role in “Joy”.

Supporting actress contenders included Rachel McAdams (Spotlight), Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs), Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) and Rooney Mara (Carol).

Moving up the SAG nominations to before the holiday break may influence Oscar choices more than usual – if only because academy members can consider SAG’s choices when deciding which screeners to catch. The Golden Globe nominations come out Thursday.

Hollywood’s lack of diversity has become of critical concern following last Oscar’s all-white acting slate.

The Bryan Cranston-led Trumbo, about the titular “irascible old coot” who wrote Roman Holiday, nabbed three nominations, including one for outstanding performance by a movie cast.

This photo provided by Bleecker Street shows, Helen Mirren, left, …

“Beasts of No Nation” star Idris Elba was also nominated for best supporting actor, as well as for his role in TV’s “Luther”.

The movie “The Big Short”, which is based on the true story of people who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, also received a nod in this category, as did the cast of “Trumbo” and the cast of “Straight Outta Compton“. Cary Fukunaga’s harrowing African war epic also snagged an Outstanding Performance By A Cast nomination for Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, and Kurt Egyiawan in addition to a nod singling out Elba as the ruthless warlord referred to only as Commandant.

She will go up against Kristen Wiig (The Spoils Before Dying), Susan Sarandon (The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe), Christina Ricci (The Lizzie Borden Chronicles) and Queen Latifah (Bessie).

In TV, Jon Hamm was nominated for outstanding male actor in a drama alongside Peter Dinklage, Kevin Spacey, Bob Odenkirk and relative newcomer Rami Malek (Mr. Robot). The cast of Modern Family, the comedy series in which acts the Colombian star Sofia Vergara, was also nominated.

“Orange’s” Uzo Aduba earned an acting nomination, as did “Big Bang’s” Jim Parsons, “Transparent’s” Jeffrey Tambor and “Veep’s” Julia Louis-Dreyfus.