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Based on the real story of a beloved Carthage, Texas, funeral director (Jack Black) who takes up with and later murders a wealthy widow (Shirley MacLaine), it's nominated for best feature and best ensemble performance.
In many ways, his is also the most modest and restrained of the five nominated films, shot with a virtually unknown ensemble cast and imbued with the kind of quiet, reflective feeling that the French call "intimiste".
Even after winning SAG's ensemble award, none of its four nominated actors — Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper — are the front-runners in their respective categories.
THE popular NBC sitcom "Will & Grace" is known for its ensemble cast of four, who were all nominated for Emmy Awards last season.
Yes, as Oldman stated, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has a "sort of pedigree" that demands the Academy's attention: its ensemble cast includes Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch and John Hurt, and it comes from the Oscar-nominated producer of Atonement and Elizabeth.
In sidebars as well as showboat leads, female acting has had a strong year – witness Janet McTeer's Globe-nominated supporting turn in Albert Nobbs – and two movies have borne witness to the box office pull of the female ensemble film.
Brother Wilson led his Grammy-nominated ensemble, the Pine Leaf Boys, through a raucous selection of traditional Acadian two-steps while sister Sarah made jambalaya.
(Uggie was nominated twice).
This year's nominated artists appear on a new CD, which includes many of the expected names and some more obscure surprises – such as this frantic brass ensemble from Serbia.
