Cate Blanchett gets SAG best actress nod for 'Blue Jasmine', Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie overlooked Rave reviews...Cate Blanchett as broke New York socialite in a scene from Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine. CATE Blanchett is the only Australian to be nominated for a major individual acting honour at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. However the news was not so good for Hugh Jackman, Geoffrey Rush, Chris Hemsworth and former Neighbours starlet Margot Robbie. Blanchett won a nod for best actress for her lead role in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, where she has won raves playing a wealthy New Yorker brought low by her husband's financial fraud. Banchett's nomination confi The SAG Awards are considered the first big test for Oscar hopefuls.rms her status as favourite to win the best actress Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony on March 2. The nominations were announced overnight in Los Angeles and will be take place on January 18th. Blanchett will face stiff competition for the coveted acting honour, up against fellow nominees who have all won Oscars: Sandra Bullock for Gravity, Dame Judi Dench for Philomena, Meryl Steep for August: Osage County and Emma Thompson for Saving Mr Banks. Blanchett won the supporting actress SAG in 2005 for playing another screen great, Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, before going on to win the Oscar. Searing...Michael Fassbender, left, Lupita Nyong'o and Chiwetel Ejofor, right, in a scene from 12 Years A Slave. Jackman, Rush, Hemsworth and Robbie might not have long to wait to get their Oscar campaigns back on track. The nominations for the other major pre-Oscar awards, the Golden Globes, will be released on Thursday (1am Friday AEDT). Jackman, for the thriller Prisoners, and Hemsworth, for his portrayal of 1970s British Formula One racer and playboy James Hunt in Rush, were considered outside chances for best actor SAG nominations. The biggest snub was for Idris Elba, who plays Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Rush, no stranger to SAG and Oscar nominations, was bypassed in the SAG supporting acting category for The Book Thief. Steve McQueen's historic saga 12 Years a Slave, Jon Wells' dysfunctional family adaptation August: Osage County, Jean-Marc Vallee's AIDS drama Dallas Buyers Club, the White House servant tale Lee Daniel's The Butler top the list of outstanding performances for the 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards with three nominations each. Each film was nominated for overall performance by their casts. Also nominated for best ensemble cast was David O. Russell's 1970s con artist romp American Hustle, starring Jennifer Lawrence. Nominated...Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker in a scene from Lee Daniels' The Butler. 12 Years a Slave attained individual acting nominations, as well, including male lead for Chiwetel Ejiofor as a free black man kidnapped into slavery, Michael Fassbender for supporting actor as a ruthless slave owner and Lupita Nyong'o for female supporting actor as a slave fieldworker. August: Osage County had individual nominations for Meryl Streep for female lead as the conflicted matriarch in the adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play, and Julia Roberts as the domineering daughter for supporting female actor. Dallas Buyers Club also scored nominations for Matthew McConaughey as the HIV-positive rodeo-lover in the best actor category and Jared Leto as a transgender for supporting actor. Both actors lost significant amounts of weight for their roles. Leto is considered the favourite for the SAG, while the late James Gandolfini for Enough Said will be the sentimental challenger. Forest Whitaker received the lead actor nomination for his performance as a long-time White House butler in Lee Daniels' The Butler. Oprah Winfrey was also nominated for best supporting actress and as best ensemble performance for the film. Also bringing in a lead actor nominations were Bruce Dern for his performance of an aging dreamer in Alexander Payne's small town dark comedy Nebraska and Tom Hanks, who plays the title role in the Paul Greengrass Somali pirate story Captain Phllips. Robbie, who left Ramsay St in 2011, was an outside chance of a supporting actress nomination for The Wolf of Wall Street. Australian Portia de Rossi was nominated for best comedy ensemble for the Arrested Development reboot, along with Isla Fisher. Robbie's Wolf co-stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, were also snubbed for the Martin Scorsese-directed film. In the SAG nominations for TV, the star of Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, Elisabeth Moss, was nominated for outstanding actress in a TV mini-series. Aussie duo Isla Fisher and Portia de Rossi, for TV series reboot Arrested Development, scored SAG nominations with their cast mates for outstanding ensemble in a TV comedy series.