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'Little Miss Sunshine' got a little brighter |
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Written by Jack Mathews, MCT
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
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The ensemble award is the Screen Actors Guild's way of saying Best Picture, and because actors make up the largest block of Oscar voters, it's an important cue.
That "Little Miss Sunshine" won the Best Picture award from the Producers Guild, it's clear that Hollywood likes more about this $8 million indie than its affable cast.
It would have been much bigger news, however, if SAG had given one or two of its individual acting awards to "Sunshine."
But Alan Arkin lost out as Supporting Actor to "Dreamgirls'" Eddie Murphy and precocious Abigail Breslin lost Supporting Actress to Murphy's co-star Jennifer Hudson.
All SAG did with its individual awards was tighten the locks that the winners seem to have had on their Oscars all along.
Helen Mirren ("The Queen"), the surest bet since Secretariat was entered in the Belmont, won SAG's Best Actress award and Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland") won Best Actor. Mirren led the same foursome to wins at the Golden Globes earlier this month, and all except for Murphy dominated the awards voted by the nation's critics' groups.
If there's little suspense in the acting categories, the Best Picture Oscar race is shaping up as one of the most interesting in years, promising the very real possibility of a post-midnight upset for Best Picture.
The five Best Picture nominees announced last week were "Babel," "The Departed," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "The Queen" — and only "Little Miss" failed to get a directing nomination.
Just once since the field was narrowed to five in 1944 has a movie without a directing nomination won Best Picture. That exception was another small movie with a big heart and a "Miss" in its title — 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy."
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