In the ever-tightening race to see which of the 9 nominees for Best Picture will take home the Oscar, the odds are definitely in Argo's favor after this weekend.
Yesterday, the Ben Affleck-directed thriller won top honors, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award, from the Producers Guild of America. Argo then won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at tonight's Screen Actors Guild awards. So with both the actors and producers' blocs voting to honor Argo with their top prizes, the sure money for the Oscar is now on Argo. (Argo also won the prize for best drama film at the Golden Globes.)
That doesn't mean Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is out of the running. After all, it did earn the most Academy Award nominations, and Spielberg got a Best Director nomination while Affleck didn't, which would certainly indicate there were enough Oscar voters who opted not to cast their ballots for Affleck and his movie.
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