'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' receive SAG award nominations while pursuing Oscars

The box office hits "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" will square off again in the run-up to the Academy honors when they receive nominated for the Screen Actors Guild honors on Wednesday. The films "The Color Purple," "Killers of the Flower Moon," and "American Fiction" will compete for the best movie cast prize, alongside the two films that faced off in a matchup called "Barbenheimer" last summer.Emma Stone from "Poor Things" and Lily Gladstone from "Killers of the Flower Moon," among others, are among the contenders for the best feature actress nomination, which goes to "Barbie" star Margot Robbie. Best actor nominee Cillian Murphy was nominated for his role as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.Actors make up the majority of voters for the Oscars, the highest honors in the film industry, which are given out in March, which is why the SAG awards are widely followed.

The SAG award winners will be announced live on Netflix (NFLX.O) on February 24 at a red carpet gala in Los Angeles.The portmanteau name combining two previous 2023 big office hits, "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer," "Barbenheimer," leads the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees in the movie categories. Four nominations have been given to each of these movies, including nominations for their ensemble casts.