The Display screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards is altering its identify.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus holds the file for probably the most SAG Award wins
Performing union SAG-AFTRA, who organise the annual ceremony, have introduced the present will now be recognized merely because the Actors Awards, starting with March 2026’s occasion as a result of they wished a title that made “apparent sense” to new viewers following its transfer to Netflix in 2024.
Jon Brockett, showrunner and government producer of the award present, and chair of SAG-AFTRA’s Awards Committee JoBeth Williams mentioned in a joint announcement: “We wished to offer clearer recognition when it comes to what the present is about for our home and international audiences.
“We honour actors in movie and tv. Laser-focusing the identify on these two issues grew to become the clearest and most easy path for this new chapter of the present.”
The ceremony’s distinctive emblem and statuette has all the time been generally known as The Actor so it felt like the best time to “make the alignment official”, however the duo burdened the identify change won’t affect on the awards ceremony itself.
They burdened: “Solely the present identify is altering.
“The inspiration stays the identical. It’s actors honouring actors.”
The change will probably be gradual, with studios and networks nonetheless utilizing Display screen Actors Guild Awards of their campaigns for award consideration, however following the nominations announcement in January 2026, the organisation “will probably be advising everybody to make use of The Actor Awards.”
Jon and JoBeth added: “Previous winners and audiences included will nonetheless seek advice from their award and the present because the SAG Awards, and that’s OK.
“We all know it’ll take time to regulate to the change.
“Our objective is, and has all the time been, to carry larger readability and international visibility to each performer the union represents, and we’re assured the brand new identify does precisely that.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus holds the file for probably the most wins on the ceremony with 9, adopted intently by eight-time victors Alec Baldwin and Julianna Marguiles, and Allison Janney, who has taken house seven statuettes.
This 12 months’s ceremony noticed FX sequence Shogun lead the winners with 4 accolades, together with the coveted Excellent Efficiency by an Ensemble in a Drama Sequence award, Excellent Motion Efficiency by a Stunt Ensemble in a Tv Sequence, and particular person wins for stars Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada.
In the meantime, Conclave secured the night time’s greatest prize within the film classes, Excellent Efficiency by a Solid in a Movement Image, whereas the Main Actor and Actress prizes went to Timothee Chalamet for A Full Unknown and Demi Moore for The Substance respectively.
