Wicked tops nominations for awards ceremony seen as Oscars indicator

Wicked leads the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, with five nods including recognition for pop star Ariana Grande and British stars Cynthia Erivo and Jonathan Bailey.

Other stars from the UK in the running for awards include Ralph Fiennes, for his portrayal of a troubled priest overseeing a papal election in Conclave, and Daniel Craig, who stars in the romance Queer, in which he plays an American living in 1950s Mexico who falls in love with a young student.

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At the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), it is nominated for best cast performance, alongside A Complete Unknown, Anora, Emilia Pérész and Conclave.

She won her first Golden Globe on Sunday for her role in The Substance, a disturbing film which tackles the tough reality of ageing in the Hollywood industry. Fellow nominees such as Karla Sofia Gascon, star of Emilia Perez, The Last Showgirl's Pamela Anderson, and newcomer Mikey Madison are also in the running.

The best male actor award, with supporting nods for Edward Norton and Monica Barbaro.

Alongside Fiennes and Craig, Chalamet is facing competition from Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, which focuses on the real-life story of a wrongly-accused man who finds a new sense of purpose through a theatre group. Adrien Brody is also a contender with his role in The Brutalist, having already won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a Hungarian architect trying to rebuild his life in the US following the Second World War.

Could the Academy Awards follow suit?

The SAG Awards are considered one of the key indicators of the Oscars - for which the nominations will be announced next week.

The last three champions in the SAG best ensemble category - Oppenheimer, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and CODA - all went on to claim the award for best picture at the Oscars.

And all but one of the SAG acting winners from the last three years have also won an Oscar - the exception is Lily Gladstone, who was named best actress at the SAG Awards for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon, but it's actually Emma Stone who went on to win the Academy Award for Poor Things.

In the TV categories this year, 'Bridgerton', 'The Day Of The Jackal', 'The Diplomat', 'Shogun' and 'Slow Horses' are up for the award for the best ensemble in a drama series.

Alongside the competitive awards, Jane Fonda - who has won two Oscars, two BAFTAs, an Emmy and seven Golden Globes during her career - will be presented with the guild's highest award for life achievement.

The winners of the 13 awards in the film and television categories will be announced at a ceremony that will be broadcast on Netflix and presented by Kristen Bell, who is the star of Nobody Wants This, on 23 February. This follows voting by the 130,000 members of the actors' union SAG-Aftra.