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The SAG Awards, which were first presented in 1995, are changing their name to The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA. The move gets away from the word \u201csag\u201d and also brings AFTRA, which merged with the Screen Actors Guild in 2012, into the name of the award.<\/p>\n
Jon Brockett, the showrunner and executive producer of the award show\u2019s telecast, and JoBeth Williams, the actress and chair of SAG-AFTRA\u2019s Awards Committee, announced the news on Friday (Nov. 14).<\/p>\n
More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Actor\u201d is the name of the award that is presented on the show. This brings the name of the award into the name of the show, just as Oscars are presented on The Oscars.<\/p>\n In a joint statement, Brockett and Williams, said: \u201cThe show\u2019s name is now The Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA, but the foundation remains the same: it\u2019s actors honoring actors. The statuette has always been called The Actor, and we\u2019re simply aligning the show\u2019s title with the name of the award itself and the union behind it.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter the merger between SAG and AFTRA, we continued to refer to the show as the SAG Awards. Now, with the new name of the show \u2014 The Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA \u2014 we\u2019re finally able to fully recognize that merger and align it with the name of our statuette, The Actor.<\/p>\n \u201cTo help ease the transition for reps at studio and network, FYC campaign materials will continue using Screen Actors Guild Awards through this season\u2019s pre-nomination voting period ending on Jan. 5, 2026. Moving forward, post-nominations, we will be advising everyone to use The Actor Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n The SAG Awards aired on NBC from 1995-97, but then moved to basic cable for many years, where they aired on TNT and TBS. They moved to Netflix in 2023, first via YouTube and then on the streamer directly. The show\u2019s 32nd edition is set for March 1. The show celebrates performances both in film and on television.<\/p>\n The show has been presented at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in all four of its outings. There was no show in 2021, amid the pandemic. The show has had a no-host format through most of its history, but has had a host the last two years \u2014 Idris Elba in 2024 show and Kristen Bell<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n SAG-AFTRA is the world\u2019s largest acting union, with 160,000 members.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The SAG Awards, which were first presented in 1995, are changing their name to The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA. The move gets away from the word \u201csag\u201d and also brings AFTRA, which merged with the Screen Actors Guild in 2012, into the name of the award. Jon Brockett, the showrunner and executive producer of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[413200,413199,354804,316568],"class_list":["post-2157507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-jobeth-williams","tag-sag-awards","tag-sag-aftra","tag-screen-actors-guild"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Heres-Why-the-SAG-Awards-Changed-Their-Name-to-the.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157509,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157507\/revisions\/2157509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}