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By JAKE COYLE 
 NEW YORK (AP) — Chadwick Boseman received two posthumous nominations from the 27th Screen Actros Guild Awards on Thursday, while the Korean American family drama “Minari” and Spike Lee's Vietnam veteran drama “Da 5 Bloods” were among the nominees for best ensemble.
 The nominees, announced on Instagram Live, differed notably from the Golden Globe nominations announced the day before. While the Hollywood Foreign Press Association spurned films with largely non-white casts in its tops awards, the actors guild nominated a strikingly more diverse slate of nominees for its top award, best ensemble.
 Up for best ensemble are Regina King's “One Night in Miami," about a 1964 meeting of four Black icons; the August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"; Lee Isaac Chung's “Minari”; Lee's “Da 5 Bloods” and Aaron Sorkin's 1960s courtroom drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7."
 All of those films, except Sorkin's, were overlooked Wednesday by the Globes. “Minari," set in Arkansas but with largely Korean dialogue, was even ruled ineligible for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's top award, best dramatic film.
 But the SAG Awards are considered a far better barometer for the Academy Awards. Actors account for the largest percentage of the film academy. Usually, the eventual Oscar best picture winner was previously nominated for best ensemble by the SAG Awards, though “Green Book” and “The Shape of Water" were two recent exceptions. Last year, Bong Joon Ho's “Parasite” won the SAG's top honor (and became the first non-English film to do so) before triumphing at the Oscars. 
 That field of ensemble nominees left out a pair of frontrunners in David Fincher’s golden-age Hollywood drama “Mank” (which led the Globes with six nominations) and Chloe Zhao’s Western road movie “Nomadland.” The stars of each — Gary Oldman in “Mank,” Frances McDormand in “Nomadland” — were both nominated by the actors guild.
 Boseman, who died last August at age 43, was nominated not just for his lead performance in “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” but also his supporting role in “Da 5 Bloods.”
 In an already recurring theme for a movie year in which many theaters were close, Netflix led all studios. It accounted for 30 nominees in all, about triple the closest competitor.
 The SAG Awards will be held almost three months later this year, on April 4. After postponing due to the pandemic to March 14, the SAGs again moved when the Grammy Awards also took that date. The Oscars won't be held until April 28. Nominees, to be announced March 15, are still more than five weeks away. 
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 Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP

'Ma Rainey,' 'Minari' and Boseman lead SAG nominations