Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Ahna O’Reilly, Mike Vogel, Cicely Tyson, Jessica Chastain, Chris Lowell, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney and Viola Davis — SAG Award winners for Cast in a Motion Picture for Tate Taylor’s The Help — pose in the press room during the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles. Fellow The Help cast member Bryce Dallas Howard was absent. (Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage. Click on the image to enlarge it.)
The Help’s Best Cast competitors at the SAG Awards 2012 were the following:
- Michel Hazanavicius‘ black-and-white silent comedy-drama The Artist (Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, James Cromwell)
- Paul Feig’s comedy sleeper hit Bridesmaids (Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Jill Clayburgh, Melissa McCarthy, Matt Lucas, Ellie Kemper, etc.)
- Alexander Payne’s family drama The Descendants (George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer, Robert Forster, Beau Bridges, etc.)
- Woody Allen’s fantasy comedy-drama Midnight in Paris (Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, and Carla Bruni).