The Blonde Ambition

Jennifer Lawrence and Nicole Kidman lead the list of nominees for the 2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The annual ceremony - known most commonly as the SAG Awards - is one of most highly-respected award presentations in the film calendar, and often seen as a strong indicator of the year's Oscar nominations.

Star of The Hours will appear in Olivier Dahan's film about Oscar-winning actor who became princess of Monaco

Nicole Kidman is set to play Grace Kelly, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actor who gave it all up for a life as princess of Monaco, according to the Hollywood Reporter .

Grace of Monaco, by screenwriter Arash Amel, was on the 2011 Black List  of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood. It follows the format of recent films such as My Week with Marilyn and The King's Speech, both of which examined a famous 20th-century figure by focusing on a particular moment in their lives. The story on this occasion centres on a six-month period in 1962 when French leader Charles de Gaulle and Monaco's Prince Rainier III were at odds over the opulent principality's standing as a tax haven. Kelly, then 33 and in the first flush of her royal career, was said to have been instrumental behind the scenes in solving the political impasse.

The film has the air of classic Oscar-bait and is being directed by Olivier Dahan, whose Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose saw Marion Cotillard take home the Academy Award for best actress in 2008. Kidman won the same Oscar in 2003 for her role as Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, and was nominated separately for the best actress and best supporting actress prizes in 2002 and 2011.