SAG Award surprises Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem and Maggie Smith (Photo: Nu Image/Columbia/Fox Searchlight)

"Les Miserables," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" all got a big boost from the Screen Actors Guild this morning with four nominations each, while "Argo," "The Sessions," "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and "Skyfall" followed with two apiece. "Zero Dark Thirty" stumbled with a single nomination for Jessica Chastain, who currently remains the Best Actress frontrunner.

'Hyde Park on Hudson' (Photo: Focus Feature)

Perhaps it took an English director like Roger Michell ("Notting Hill," "Persuasion") to get inside the complicated domestic life of the popular American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Shot in England but set in the 32nd president's upstate New York estate, the movie is told through the eyes of Margaret "Daisy" Suckley (Laura Linney). Daisy was an unmarried fifth cousin turned intimate companion to FDR (an astonishingly contained Bill Murray).

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"I'll have what she's having." Only two days after the New York Film Critics Circle started off the awards season with Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" as their Best Picture, The National Board of Review seconded that emotion for the espionage thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The groups also dovetailed on best director (Bigelow) and best foreign language film ("Amour"). But that's where the similarity between the two groups ended. Oops! Not a single major award for Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln." Not quite the salute the NYFCC gave the White House biopic with three awards.

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Start writing your acceptance speech. "The Dark Knight Rises" star Anne Hathaway, who plays the doomed factory-worker-turned-prostitute Fantine -- and sings her tonsils off -- has hit a very high note. In her supporting turn, Hathaway sings the signature song "I Dreamed a Dream" and brings the audience to tears. She's like musical meat tenderizer -- once the tears start flowing, they don't stop for the rest of the movie. When she called us last Friday afternoon, the newlywed (she wed actor Adam Shulman last September) sounded cheery and warm following a photo shoot:

Jessica Chastain in 'Zero Dark Thirty' (Photo: Columbia Pictures)

"Zero Dark Thirty" won the Best Picture prize at this year's New York Film Critics Circle Awards, sweeping along Kathryn Bigelow for her second Best Director win and also Best Cinematography.

"Lincoln" also took three awards, with Tony Kushner receiving Best Screenplay, Daniel Day-Lewis winning Best Actor and Sally Field taking Best Supporting Actress at the awards announced today. But there's a catch: Steven Spielberg wasn't even in the running for Best Director.

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With "Killing Them Softly," writer-director Andrew Dominik reunites with Brad Pitt, the star of his ambitious 2007 Western, "The Killing of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," a box office failure with a running time as long as its title. Dominik's first film, the 2000 Australian crime biopic "Chopper," launched Eric Bana's Hollywood career. Now the New Zealand-born director is back with a taut crime drama based on the George V. Higgins novel "Cogan's Trade." Pitt plays Jackie Cogan, a mob enforcer assigned to clean up after a pair of bumbling amateurs (Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn) rob a Mafia-protected card game and sign their own death warrant in poker chips. Dominik opens up on Pitt, politics, and killing: