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<span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetail" style="font-style: normal;"><b>LOS ANGELES: Crime caper "American Hustle" won the top film prize at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards on Saturday, earning another big boost in Hollywood´s all-important Oscars race.</b></span></div>
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<span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetail" style="font-style: normal;">Australian Cate Blanchett won best actress for her role in Woody Allen´s "Blue Jasmine," while Matthew McConaughey won best actor for AIDS activist movie "Dallas Buyers Club."</span></div>
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<span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetail" style="font-style: normal;">Jared Leto won best supporting actor for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club," while best supporting actress went to Lupita Nyong´o in the harrowing drama "12 Years a Slave."</span></div>
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<span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetail" style="font-style: normal;">On the small screen, best drama went to cult series "Breaking Bad" and best comedy to "Modern Family."</span></div>
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<span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetail" style="font-style: normal;">The SAGs, the latest show in Hollywood´s annual awards season, are seen as one of the better indicators of prospects for the Academy Awards, Tinseltown´s most coveted honors, which this year will be held on March 2."American Hustle," based on a 1970s FBI sting operation known as ABSCAM, topped the winners at last weekend´s Golden Globes with three awards and has 10 Oscar nominations.</span></div>
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<span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetail" style="font-style: normal;">Blanchett is increasingly seen as the Oscar best actress frontrunner for playing a Manhattan socialite struggling to cope after her swindler husband kills himself and she is forced to go and live with her poor sister in San Francisco.</span></div>
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<span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetail" style="font-style: normal;">"For those who voted for me, I thank you, and for those who didn´t, better luck next year," Blanchett said in her acceptance speech Saturday. (AFP)</span></div>
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LOS ANGELES: Crime caper "American Hustle" won the top film prize at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards on Saturday, earning another big boost in Hollywood´s all-important Oscars race. Australian Cate Blanchett won best actress for her role in Woo…