Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in The Theory of Everything
British actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, as well as actresses Felicity Jones, Keira Knightley and Rosamund Pike, are among the nominees at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
Benedict Cumberbatch has been nominated in the lead actor category for his performance as Alan Turing, the wartime mathematician who devised computers that cracked the Nazi Enigma code, in The Imitation Game. Cumberbatch’s co-star Keira Knightley receives a best supporting actress nomination.
Keira Knightley and Benedict
Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game
Eddie Redmayne is nominated in the lead actor category for his performance as a contemporary British scientist, Professor Stephen Hawking, in The Theory of Everything. Felicity Jones is nominated as lead actress playing Hawking’s first wife, Jane Wilde, on whose autobiography the film is based.
Rosamund Pike has been nomimated as lead actress for he central role in David Fincher’s Gone Girl.
Recognition in the ensemble category means both The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game have three nominations apiece.
The awards, which are voted for by the 100,000 actors who belong to SAG, feature five film categories and eight TV categories. Besides his film nomination, Cumberbatch has a TV miniseries acting nomination for Sherlock: His Last Vow.
www.sagawards.org
Best lead actor
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhall, Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Best lead actress
Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Mooore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Best supporting actor
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
JK Simmons, Whiplash
Best supporting actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Naomi Watts, St Vincent
Best ensemble casts
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
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