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30 January 2012 - 05:41 AMT

Jean Dujardin wins best actor at SAG awards

Jean Dujardin has won the best-actor honor at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for the silent film The Artist, bringing the Hollywood newcomer a step closer to claiming an Academy Award Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, Jan 29, in Los Angeles, U.S.

The big-screen awards for supporting actor went to Christopher Plummer as an elderly dad who comes out as gay in Beginners and Octavia Spencer as a brassy maid in the Deep South drama The Help, AP reports.

The winners at the SAG ceremony typically go on to earn Oscars, whose ceremony is Feb 26.