SAG nominations have a hole big enough to ‘Drive’ through

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Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks (pictured) gave highly praised performances in “Drive.”

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Updated: January 16, 2012 10:25AM

While a lot of the expected names and film titles were among the nominations of the Screen Actors Guild Awards announced Wednesday (see list at right), Hollywood honchos were buzzing about a number of big snubs.

Considering the actors constitute the largest voting branch of the Motion Picture Academy, the SAG nods could have a big impact on the all-important Oscar race.

Among the major surprises was the lack of a SAG nomination for Ryan Gosling — widely praised for his performance in “Drive.” Ditto for his co-star Albert Brooks, whose rare dramatic role in “Drive” already has won him best supporting actor awards from the Boston, San Francisco and New York Online critics groups — and early talk about a possible Academy Award nomination.

† Hollywood insiders also are shaking their heads over the lack of nominations for the casts of Steven Spielberg’s “War Horse,” Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo,” David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and Stephen Daldry’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”

Part of the problem — especially with the Fincher and Daldry movies — was the late release of DVD screeners for SAG voters and the scheduling of theater screenings so close to the deadline for filling out nomination ballots.

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