Homeland, Modern Family Lead SAG TV Noms

LOS ANGELES: Among the most-nominated TV programs for the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards are Modern Family, which scored four nods, and Homeland, which has both leads up for the male and female performance categories.

The nominees for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama are the casts of Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Homeland and Mad Men. On the comedy front, it is the casts of 30 Rock, The Big Bang Theory, Glee, Modern Family, Nurse Jackie and The Office.

Individual performance nods for drama went to Boardwalk Empire‘s Steve Buscemi, Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston, The Newsroom‘s Jeff Daniels, Mad Men‘s Jon Hamm and Homeland‘s Damian Lewis. Also up for individual performance awards for drama are Claire Danes for Homeland, Michelle Dockery for Downton Abbey, Jessica Lange for American Horror Story: Asylum, Julianna Margulies for The Good Wife and Maggie Smith for Downton Abbey. Comedy performance nominees in the actor category are Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock, Ty Burrell for Modern Family, Louis C.K. for Louie, Jim Parsons for The Big Bang Theory and Eric Stonestreet for Modern Family. Female comedic leads recognized are Edie Falco for Nurse Jackie, Tina Fey for 30 Rock, Amy Poehler for Parks and Recreation, Sofia Vergara for Modern Family and Betty White for Hot in Cleveland.

For TV or mini-series, the actors nominated for their performances are Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton for Hatfields & McCoys, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris for Game Change and Clive Owen for Hemingway & Gellhorn. Females up for the honors are Nicole Kidman for Hemingway & Gellhorn, Julianne Moore for Game Change, Charlotte Rampling for Restless, Sigourney Weaver for Political Animals and Alfre Woodard for Steel Magnolias.

In the motion picture arena, the casts of Argo, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Les Misérables, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook are nominated for outstanding ensembles. Male performances recognized are, for lead roles, Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln, John Hawkes for The Sessions, Hugh Jackman for Les Misérables and Denzel Washington for Flight. Supporting nods went to Alan Arkin for Argo, Javier Bardem for Skyfall, Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook, Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master and Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln. Females recognized for leading roles are Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty, Marion Cotillard for Rust and Bone, Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook, Helen Mirren for Hitchcock and Naomi Watts for The Impossible. Supporting nominations went to Sally Field for Lincoln, Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables, Helen Hunt for The Sessions, Nicole Kidman for The Paperboy and Maggie Smith for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 

The winners will be named on January 27. The SAG Awards will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS.