It looks as though all that promoting might have paid off in the end because Jennifer Aniston has finally been recognized for her role in the upcoming film, Cake. The actress has been nominated for an Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role award at next year's Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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According to People Magazine on Wednesday, Aniston will be competing with some of Hollywood's biggest heavyweights in the category, including Felicity Jones for The Theory of Everything, Julianne Moore in Still Alice, Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl and Reese Witherspoon for her role in Wild.

The awards show will be held in Los Angeles on Jan. 25.

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Meanwhile, Aniston has revealed that she is always looking for "challenging" roles in her work.

According to Yahoo News on Monday, Aniston recently sat down with actresses Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Shailene Woodley and Emily Blunt in a round-table discussion about their films.

She said, "I'm always trying to find the great small roles; the stronger sort of slice of life, complex. And I've been doing fart jokes for a long time, which I love immensely, but I think it does allow you to sort of take care of business and then you can also spend the time with these little labors of love which I've come to discover you sometimes have to create for yourself."

Aniston also compared her roles in Cake and her other new film, Horrible Bosses 2, saying "I had a lot of empathy for her, well not Dr. Julia - she's just god awful and just a horn dog. But I felt extreme... She's extremely horny. But for Claire I just had a lot of empathy for her struggle and I think she is beautiful. And I think her problems and her choices and her journey is beautiful in the fact that we feel empathy for people going through pain."

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