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Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady The 2012 Best Actress Oscar will go to one of two nominees: Meryl Streep, for her portrayal of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, or Viola Davis, for her portrayal of a dignified nanny in Tate Taylor’s comedy-drama The Help. We’ve narrowed the race down to Streep and Davis not because their performances are [...]

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 [...]

Mike Vogel, Mary Steenburgen, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, Cicely Tyson, Ahna O’Reilly, Emma Stone, Chris Lowell, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek, Octavia Spencer The SAG Award-winning cast of Tate Taylor’s The Help at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage. Click on the image [...]

Jeff Cronenweth, Viola Davis, Siedah Garrett, Dave Giammarco; sitting: Letty Aronson, Max von Sydow, Kirk Baxter Oscar nominees (left to right) Jeff Cronenweth, Viola Davis, Siedah Garrett, and Dave Giammarco at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscar Nominees Luncheon 2012. Sitting in front of them are (left to right) Letty Aronson, Max von Sydow, and Kirk Baxter. The Oscar Luncheon was held [...]