IT'S TIME FOR THE ACTORS TO PASS JUDGMENT

SAG decides which monsters, witches and conspiracy theorists are deemed worthy of upcoming awards

- BY GLENN WHIPP

Nominations for the Actors arrived Wednesday morning. And if you're thinking, "Actors nominations? Who voted for these awards?" I could go into an exaggerated Abbott and Costello routine or simply remind you that the Screen Actors Guild recently rebranded its annual awards ceremony as the Actor Awards or, if you're not into the whole brevity thing, the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA.

The Actor Awards have two separate nominating committees, one for movies and one for television, each consisting of approximately 2,500 randomly selected, active SAG-AFTRA members. We'll concern ourselves now with the nominations on the film side, as the guild's awards are usually one of the most accurate bellwethers for the Oscars.

Who is bellowing "I am an actor" at the top of their lungs this morning? And who is calling their agent, doing a different sort of braying? Let's look at the list of snubs and surprises.

SURPRISE: “Frankenstein” (cast)

This nomination is stranger than anything in Guillermo del Toro’s monster movie. Sure, Jacob Elordi brought raw emotion and vulnerability to Frankenstein, but the rest of the cast looked lost. Oscar Isaac? You say operatic; I say overblown. Mia Goth struggled in an under written role. And Christoph Waltz was playing a plot device, not a character, and doing so in the most Christoph Waltz way possible. I'd love to hear Quentin Tarantino's review of that performance.

SNUB: “Wicked” (cast)