Screen Actors Guild Awards (also known as SAG Awards) are accolades given by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). The award was founded in 1995 to recognize outstanding performances in movie and prime time television. SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in the Hollywood film industry since then, along with the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars. SAG awards focus both on individual performances and on the work of the entire ensemble of a drama series and comedy series, and the cast of a motion picture.
Nominations for the awards come from two committees, one for film and one for television, each numbering 2,100 members of the union, randomly selected anew each year, with the full membership (165,000 as of 2012) available to vote for the winners. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards in acting categories. The awards have been telecast on TNT from 1998 to 2022, and have been simulcast on TBS from 2007 to 2022. In May 2022 it was announced that both TNT and TBS will no longer air the awards. In January 2023, it was announced that Netflix will air the awards live beginning in 2024 as part of a new multi-year partnership, with the 2023 ceremony being announced to be live streamed on Netflix's YouTube channel as Netflix was still working out its live streaming capabilities at the time of the announcement.
The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25, 1995, from Universal Studios' Stage 12. The second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Auditorium. On December 4, 2017, it was announced that the awards show would have its first host in its then twenty-four year history, with actress Kristen Bell presiding over the ceremony. As of 2023, Shakespeare in Love is the only film to receive nominations for all four acting categories and the ensemble award and Everything Everywhere All at Once is the only film to receive four awards, including the ensemble award.
The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called "The Actor". It is 16 inches (41 cm) tall, weighs over 12 pounds (5.4 kg), is cast in solid bronze, and produced by the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, California.
Ceremonies[]
| Edition | Date | Venue | Host(s) | Broadcaster | Most awards | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Film | Television | |||||
| 1st | February 25, 1995 | Stage 12, Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal City, California | none | NBC | Forrest Gump, Nell, Ed Wood and Bullets over Broadway (1 each) | NYPD Blue (2) |
| 2nd | February 24, 1996 | Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California | Apollo 13 (2) | ER (2) | ||
| 3rd | February 22, 1997 | Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California | TNT | Shine, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, The Mirror Has Two Faces and The Birdcage (1 each) | Seinfeld (2) | |
| 4th | March 8, 1998 | As Good as It Gets (2) | ER (3) | |||
| 5th | March 7, 1999 | Shakespeare in Love (2) | ER (2) | |||
| 6th | March 12, 2000 | American Beauty (3) | The Sopranos (3) | |||
| 7th | March 11, 2001 | Traffic and Erin Brockovich (2 each) | The West Wing (3) | |||
| 8th | March 10, 2002 | Gosford Park (2) | ||||
| 9th | March 9, 2003 | Chicago (3) | The Sopranos and Will & Grace (2 each) | |||
| 10th | February 22, 2004 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Monster, Mystic River, Cold Mountain and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1 each) | Angels in America and Six Feet Under (2 each) | |||
| 11th | February 5, 2005 | Million Dollar Baby (2) | Desperate Housewives (2) | |||
| 12th | January 29, 2006 | TNT, TBS | Capote, Walk the Line, Cinderella Man, The Constant Gardener and Crash (1 each) | |||
| 13th | January 28, 2007 | Dreamgirls (2) | Elizabeth I and Grey's Anatomy (2) | |||
| 14th | January 27, 2008 | No Country for Old Men (2) | The Sopranos (3) | |||
| 15th | January 25, 2009 | The Dark Knight (2) | 30 Rock (3) | |||
| 16th | January 23, 2010 | Inglourious Basterds (2) | 30 Rock (2) | |||
| 17th | January 30, 2011 | The King's Speech and The Fighter (2 each) | Boardwalk Empire (2) | |||
| 18th | January 29, 2012 | The Help (3) | ||||
| 19th | January 27, 2013 | Lincoln (2) | 30 Rock (2) | |||
| 20th | January 18, 2014 | Dallas Buyers Club (2) | Modern Family (2) | |||
| 21st | January 25, 2015 | The Theory of Everything, Still Alice, Whiplash, Boyhood, Birdman and Unbroken (1 each) | Orange Is the New Black (2) | |||
| 22nd | January 30, 2016 | The Revenant, Room, Beast of No Nation, The Danish Girl, Spotlight and Mad Max: Fury Road (1 each) | ||||
| 23rd | January 29, 2017 | Fences (2) | The Crown (2) | |||
| 24th | January 21, 2018 | Kristen Bell | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (3) | Big Little Lies, This Is Us and Veep (2 each) | ||
| 25th | January 27, 2019 | Megan Mullally | Black Panther (2) | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (3) | ||
| 26th | January 19, 2020 | none | Joker, Judy, Once Upon a Time in America, Marriage Story, Parasite and Avengers: Endgame (1 each) | Fosse/Verdon and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2 each) | ||
| 27th | April 4, 2021 | Virtual ceremony | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2) | The Crown and Schitt's Creek (2 each) | ||
| 28th | February 27, 2022 | Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California | CODA (2) | Squid Game (3) | ||
| 29th | February 26, 2023 | Fairmont Century Plaza, Century City, California | Netflix (via YouTube) | Everything Everywhere All at Once (4) | The White Lotus (2) | |
| 30th | February 24, 2024 | Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California | Idris Elba | Netflix | Oppenheimer (3) | The Bear (3) |
| 31st | February 23, 2025 | Kristen Bell | A Complete Unknown, The Substance, A Real Pain, Emilia Pérez, Conclave and The Fall Guy (1 each) | Shōgun (4) | ||
Awards[]
Film[]
| Award category | Years active | Inaugural winner | Current winner (2025) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | 1994-present | Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump | Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown as Bob Dylan |
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | 1994-present | Jodie Foster - Nell as Nell Kellty | Demi Moore - The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle |
| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | 1994-present | Martin Landau - Ed Wood as Bela Lugosi | Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan |
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role | 1994-present | Dianne Wiest - Bullets over Broadway as Helen Sinclair | Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez as Rita Mora Castro |
| Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | 1995-present | Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan and Gary Sinise - Apollo 13 | Sergio Castellitto, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Isabella Rossellini and Stanley Tucci - Conclave |
| Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture | 2007-present | The Bourne Ultimatum | The Fall Guy |
Television[]
| Award category | Years active | Inaugural winner | Current winner (2025) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | 1994-present | Raúl Juliá - The Burning Season as Chico Mendes (HBO) | Colin Farrell - The Penguin as Oswald "Oz" Cobb / The Penguin (HBO) |
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | 1994-present | Joanne Woodward - Breathing Lessons as Maggie Moran (ABC) | Jessica Gunning - Baby Reindeer as Martha Scott (Netflix) |
| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series | 1994-present | Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz (ABC) | Hiroyuki Sanada - Shōgun as Lord Yoshii Toranaga (FX) |
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series | 1994-present | Kathy Baker - Picket Fences as Jill Brock (CBS) | Anna Sawai - Shōgun as Toda Mariko (FX) |
| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series | 1994-present | Jason Alexander - Seinfeld as George Costanza (NBC) | Martin Short - Only Murders in the Building as Oliver Putnam (Hulu) |
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series | 1994-present | Helen Hunt - Mad About You as Jamie Buchman (NBC) | Jean Smart - Hacks as Deborah Vance (Max) |
| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | 1994-present | Gordon Clapp, Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Gail O'Grady, Jimmy Smits and Nicholas Turturro - NYPD Blue (ABC) | Shinnosuke Abe, Tadanobu Asano, Tommy Bastow, Takehiro Hira, Moeka Hoshi, Hiromoto Ida, Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroto Kanai, Yuki Kura, Takeshi Kurokawa, Fumi Nikaido, Tokuma Nishioka, Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai - Shōgun (FX) |
| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | 1994-present | Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jerry Seinfeld - Seinfeld (NBC) | Michael Cyril Creighton, Zach Galifianakis, Selena Gomez, Richard Kind, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Steve Martin, Kumail Nanjiani, Molly Shannon and Martin Short - Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) |
| Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series | 2007-present | 24 (Fox) | Shōgun (FX) |