Screen Actors Guild shortlists coming with few surprises. The Silver Screen Theater at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood saw the nominations that were announced by Chris O'Donnell and Michelle Monaghan.

"Up in the Air" with six Golden Globe nominations, earned three nominations from the Screen Actors Guild on Thursday but couldn't win the race. The three main stars of the film received nominations: George Clooney for lead actor and Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick for best supporting actress.

"Precious" which is based on the Novel 'Push' was second after "Up in the Air", to receive highest nominations.

In the group's best actor category, Clooney joined three other Oscar front-runners: Colin Firth ("A Single Man"), Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart") and Morgan Freeman ("Invictus"), and in the supporting actress category Diane Kruger for "Inglourious Basterds" got the nomination but Julianne Moore ("A Single Man") was left off.

The best picture nominations were the group nominated "Precious," "Inglourious Basterds", "The Hurt Locker", "Nine" and "An Education".

The best actress with no surprises had Sandra Bullock ("The Blind Side") and Gabourey Sidibe ("Precious"), Meryl Streep ("Julie & Julia"), Carey Mulligan ("An Education") and Helen Mirren
("The Last Station").

On the television side, there were three nominations a piece to NBC's "30 Rock" ,TNT's "The Closer" and Showtime's "Dexter," and three freshmen series with best cast nominations to ABC's "Modern Family", Fox's "Glee" and CBS' "The Good Wife".