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Octavia Spencer ("The Help") swept through last year's awards season, including the Screen Actors Guild Award as Best Film Supporting Actress. Many other ladies have won at SAG shortly before picking up their Oscars soon after.
Quite a few past SAG Awards winners are among the contenders this year: Annette Bening ("Imogene"), Helena Bonham Carter ("Great Expectations" and "Les Miserables"), Jessica Chastain ("Lawless" and "Zero Dark Thirty"), Julie Christie ("The Company You Keep"), Judi Dench ("Skyfall"), Jennifer Ehle ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Sally Field ("Lincoln"), Helen Hunt ("The Sessions"), Jessica Lange ("Therese Raquin"), Melissa Leo ("Flight"), Kelly Macdonald ("Anna Karenina"), Frances McDormand ("Moonrise Kingdom" and "Promised Land"), Vanessa Redgrave ("Song for Marion"), Susan Sarandon ("Arbritrage"), and Maggie Smith ("The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel").
Previous nominees under consideration are Amy Adams ("The Master"), Laura Dern ("The Master"), Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables"), Holly Hunter ("Won't Back Down"), Catherine Keener ("A Late Quartet"), Nicole Kidman ("The Paperboy"), Shirley MacLaine ("Bernie"), Julia Stiles ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Kerry Washington ("Django Unchained"), and Olivia Williams ("Hyde Park on Hudson").
Freshman contenders could include Samantha Barks ("Les Miserables"), Jessica Biel ("Hitchcock"), Pauline Collins ("Quartet"), Olivia Colman ("Hyde Park on Hudson"), Blythe Danner ("Hello, I Must Be Going"), Ann Dowd ("Compliance"), Isabelle Huppert ("Amour"), Scarlett Johansson ("Hitchcock"), Amanda Seyfried ("Les Miserables"), Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook"), and Rebel Wilson ("Pitch Perfect").
