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A puzzling Academy Awards season will sort itself out a bit more on Sunday with the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where top performers gather to honor their own in what often is a prelude for who'll go home with an Oscar.

The Screen Actors Guild on Sunday picked the actors in drama "The Help" as the top ensemble cast of 2011 and gave it two other awards for best lead actress and supporting actress, in a surprise over heavily favored silent movie romance "The Artist."

While Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock's chances for Academy Award gold were advanced with their trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the blockbuster "Avatar" may have felt a touch blue....

The Screen Actors Guild announced it nominations for the 16th annual SAG Awards Thursday, with "Precious" and "Up in the Air" earning three nominations each.

The vote ended a nearly yearlong standoff that resulted in the union’s missing out on potential pay increases and on contracts on new television series.

The Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood studios have reached a tentative deal on movie and prime-time TV show productions. The previous contract had expired last June.

SAG's national board rejected the AMPTP's "last, best, final offer" on Saturday after an all-day national board meeting. The unequivocal move throws an already tumultuous contract debate -- and the industry at large -- into indefinite limbo.

For the night of the SAG Awards, at least, warring factions within Hollywood's largest guild called a truce long enough to don the gowns and tuxedoes and pat one another on the back.

The Screen Actors Guild has a long history of conflict, but experts say the state of the union is now more perilous than ever.