Argo boosts Oscar chances with two weekend awards
After the much-talked about snub for being left out of the best director’s nomination, actor Ben Affleck still has reasons to hold on to the Oscar dreams with his directorial debut vehicle
I ran hostage drama Argo won its second big award in two days last month, boosting its chances of winning a best picture Oscar in a race that had been considered wide open.
Argo won best cast ensemble, the top prize, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, while Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence took lead acting honors.
Argo won the Producers Guild Award — a key measure of Hollywood sentiment — beating Lincoln, Les Miserables, and Silver Linings Playbook, which are all Academy Award best picture contenders.
“There was absolutely no way I thought we would win this award,” the film’s director and star, Ben Affleck, told reporters backstage after the SAG win. Argo is the true story of the rescue of U.S. diplomats stranded in Tehran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Asked about his movie’s Oscar chances, Affleck said he was not in the business of ‘handicapping or trying to divine what’s going to happen down the road.’
“I don’t know what’s going to happen, nothing may happen, but it’s a wonderful opportunity to be on the ride,” Affleck added.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) ceremony is among the most-watched during Hollywood’s awards season because actors make up the largest voting group in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which chooses the Oscar winners. The SAG honors are selected
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