{"id":53532,"date":"2025-11-14T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53532\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:51:09","slug":"sag-awards-announce-name-change-here-come-the-actor-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53532\/","title":{"rendered":"SAG Awards announce name change: Here come the Actor Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019ve watched the Screen Actors Guild Awards<\/a> over the years, you\u2019ve heard the name of the prize countless times, even if it hasn\u2019t quite registered. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Actor goes to … Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Actor goes to … Demi Moore<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Actor goes to … \u2018Conclave.\u2019<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, in an effort to lean into the name of the statuette and streamline the show\u2019s title, the Screen Actors Guild Awards announced Friday that it is renaming the ceremony to the Actor Awards. Or, if you want to get precise (and a bit verbose): the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that our global audience is really growing, people don\u2019t always understand what the union name is,\u201d says awards committee chair JoBeth Williams. \u201cBut \u2018the Actor Awards\u2019 they recognize and they know they\u2019re going to see their favorite actors when they tune in.\u201d <\/p>\n

The SAG Awards have long been a reliable precursor to the Oscars on the awards season calendar, with last year being an exception. (Chalamet, Moore and \u201cConclave,\u201d winner of the guild\u2019s best picture equivalent, the ensemble honor, did not repeat their SAG successes.)<\/p>\n

Since the event moved to Netflix<\/a> in 2024 from TNT and TBS, viewership numbers have increased, besting pre-pandemic levels. Last year, per Netflix, the ceremony received 4.3 million views on the platform.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a far cry from just four years ago, when the pandemic forced ceremonies to postpone and shuffle dates, and the Grammys thought nothing of landing on the SAG Awards\u2019 original date. (SAG-AFTRA voiced its \u201cextreme disappointment,\u201d<\/a> then slunk off to Easter Sunday for a scheduled one-hour telecast.)<\/p>\n

\u201c[Netflix] saw the potential of the show to really grow an audience,\u201d says Jon Brockett, longtime showrunner and executive producer. \u201cWe\u2019re on 190-plus countries now on Netflix. So the simplification of the name, from a global perspective, should bring about even greater awareness to understand who we are and what we\u2019re all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which is, in a word: actors. Like the Golden Globes, the Actor Awards (we\u2019ll just start calling it that now, trying it out for size) reward lead and supporting performances in movies and television, and, in lieu of \u201cbest picture\u201d or \u201cbest series,\u201d prizes for acting ensembles. Unlike the Golden Globes, the ceremony has not been beset by scandal<\/a> or raised questions about unethical self-dealing<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nominations for the Actor Awards are chosen by two nominating committees, one for film and one for television, comprising 2,500 SAG-AFTRA members that are randomly selected each year. Winners are then selected by active SAG-AFTRA members, a massive voting body numbering more than 130,000. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all doing what these folks up there on the screen do, so we have a strong sense of what it takes to do that and what it takes to make it really special,\u201d Williams says of the awards\u2019 voters. \u201cThe eyes of the voters are very tuned in to what actors do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Actors Awards will stream live on Netflix on March 1. Nominations will be announced on Jan. 7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve watched the Screen Actors Guild Awards over the years, you\u2019ve heard the name of the prize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[33713,28647,2613,24914,33717,33719,48,52,51,47,50,49,33714,9233,33715,33716,1860,4509,33718,218,72],"class_list":["post-53532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-actor-awards","tag-ceremony","tag-date","tag-demi-moore","tag-ensemble-honor","tag-global-audience","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-name-change","tag-netflix","tag-sag-awards","tag-screen-actors-guild-awards","tag-show","tag-television","tag-timothee-chalamet","tag-winner","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}