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| Dame Maggie Smith up for Screen Actors Guild awards | Dame Maggie Smith up for Screen Actors Guild awards |
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| Dame Maggie Smith has received double recognition from the Screen Actors Guild, with award nominations for her roles in both Downton Abbey and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. | |
| She stands to pick up a further two prizes, as both productions are nominated for best ensemble cast. | |
| Fellow Briton Dame Helen Mirren is also recognised, for her role in Hitchcock. | Fellow Briton Dame Helen Mirren is also recognised, for her role in Hitchcock. |
| Argo, Les Miserables, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook lead the film field with four nominations each. | Argo, Les Miserables, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook lead the film field with four nominations each. |
| All of them are up for the outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture award - the SAG equivalent of a best picture prize - as is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. | |
| Comedy series Modern Family has the most nominations in the television categories - four in all. | Comedy series Modern Family has the most nominations in the television categories - four in all. |
| The 2013 Screen Actors Guild awards will be presented at a Los Angeles ceremony on 27 January. | |
| Read the full list of nominees | |
| The organisation's nominations are often seen as key indicators as to which actors will be in the running for Oscars, the film industry's highest accolade. | |
| Lincoln star Daniel Day-Lewis, Bradley Cooper from Silver Linings Playbook and Les Miserables lead Hugh Jackman are all in contention for the Guild's best actor prize. | |
| John Hawkes' performance as a disabled man seeking love in The Sessions as Denzel Washington's as an alcoholic pilot in Flight complete this year's line-up. | |
| Dame Helen's competition in the best actress category comes from Cooper's Playbook co-star Jennifer Lawrence, France's Marion Cotillard for Rust and Bone and Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty. | |
| Naomi Watts rounds out the best actress contenders for her role as a mother caught up in the 2004 Asian tsunami in The Impossible. | |
| Javier Bardem's villainous turn in Skyfall earns the latest James Bond film a berth in the best supporting actor category. | |
| His competition comes from Argo's Alan Arkin, Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln, Silver Linings' Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master. | |
| Dame Maggie, meanwhile, will need to see off Lincoln's Sally Field, Les Miserables' Anne Hathaway and The Sessions' Helen Hunt if she is to win the best supporting actress prize. | |
| Nicole Kidman, recognised for her role as a sexually uninhibited Southern belle in The Paperboy, is the fifth nominee in the category. | |
| Dame Maggie's competition for the best actress in a drama series award includes her Downton Abbey co-star Michelle Dockery, recognised for her role as Lady Mary Crawley. | |
| Other Britons in line for TV awards include Homeland's Damian Lewis, up for best actor in a drama series, and Clive Owen, up for best actor in a TV movie or miniseries for his work in Hemingway and Gellhorn. | |
| Kidman gets a second SAG nomination, for best actress in a TV movie or miniseries, for her role in the HBO production, which centres on the relationship between writer Ernest Hemingway and his wife, journalist Martha Gelhorn. | |
| Veteran entertainer Dick Van Dyke will be honoured with a life achievement award at this year's awards, to be held at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. |