The Producers and the Actors Like Ya, Ben

The Academy may have snubbed Ben Affleck’s directing of his Golden Globe-winning third effort, Argo, but the producers, they loved everything he did on that film behind the scenes.

And the actors, they loved everything he did in front of the camera with his cast.

And both groups probably also wanted to show up the Academy a little, which is why Argo was given the top honor at last Saturday’s Producers Guild Awards and why the film’s talented actors and actresses (Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, and Clea DuVall, among them) were named the winners of the Best Ensemble hardware at last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Tommy Lee Jones, and Anne Hathaway won the film acting prizes for their turns in Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Lincoln, and Les Misérables, respectively.

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