Screen Actors Guild Awards (also known as SAG Awards) are accolades given by the

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(SAG-AFTRA). The award was founded in 1952 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 1995. The awards focus on both individual performances as well as 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 2100 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 since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25, 1995, from Universal Studios' Stage 12. The second SAG awards aired live from the

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, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Auditorium. On December 4, 2017, it was announced that the award show would have its first host ever in its twenty-four year history with actress Kristen Bell presiding over the ceremony. As of 2021, '' Shakespeare in Love'' is the only film to receive nominations for all four acting categories and 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 tall, weighs over , is cast in solid bronze, and produced by the American Fine Arts Foundry in

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Ceremonies

* 1995:

1st Screen Actors Guild Awards The Inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards aired on NBC from Stage 12, Universal Studios, on February 25, 1995. Unveiled during this evening for the first time was the Guild's new award statuette, The Actor, as well as the first awards for ensembles ...

, for the year 1994 * 1996:

2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards The 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 1995, took place on February 24, 1996. The ceremony was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, and w ...

, for the year 1995 * 1997:

3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards The 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 1996, took place on February 22, 1997. The ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, and was t ...

, for the year 1996 * 1998:

4th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 4th Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 1997, took place on March 8, 1998. The ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, and was telev ...

, for the year 1997 * 1999:

5th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 5th Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 1998, took place on March 7, 1999. The ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, and was telev ...

, for the year 1998 * 2000: 6th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the year 1999 * 2001:

7th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 7th Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2000, took place on March 11, 2001. The ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, and was tel ...

, for the year 2000 * 2002: 8th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the year 2001 * 2003: 9th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the year 2002 * 2004:

10th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 10th Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2003, were presented at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California on February 22, 2004. The nominees were announce ...

, for the year 2003 * 2005:

11th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2004, took place on February 5, 2005. The ceremony, for the 9th consecutive time was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los ...

, for the year 2004 * 2006: 12th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the year 2005 * 2007: 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the year 2006 * 2008: 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the year 2007 * 2009:

15th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2008, were presented on January 25, 2009. The ceremony was held at the Shrine Auditorium, Shrine Exposition Center in Los ...

, for the year 2008 * 2010:

16th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2009, were presented on January 23, 2010 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the fourteenth co ...

, for the year 2009 * 2011: 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the year 2010 * 2012: 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the year 2011 * 2013:

19th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2012, were presented on January 27, 2013, at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles for the seventeenth consecutive ...

, for the year 2012 * 2014:

20th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2013, were presented on January 18, 2014 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. The ceremony was broadcast simul ...

, for the year 2013 * 2015:

21st Screen Actors Guild Awards The 21st ceremony of the Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2014, took place on January 25, 2015, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broad ...

, for the year 2014 * 2016:

22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2015, were presented on January 30, 2016 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast o ...

, for the year 2015 * 2017:

23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2016, were presented on January 29, 2017 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast on ...

, for the year 2016 * 2018:

24th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2017, were presented on January 21, 2018 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast on ...

, for the year 2017 * 2019:

25th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2018, were presented on January 27, 2019 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast li ...

, for the year 2018 * 2020:

26th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2019, were presented on January 19, 2020 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast l ...

, for the year 2019 * 2021:

27th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2020, were presented on April 4, 2021 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast live ...

, for the year 2020 * 2022:

28th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2021, was presented on February 27, 2022 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. The ceremony was broadcast li ...

Ceremonies

Categories

Film

Television

Life Achievement

Superlatives

Per performer

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

Per film

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

Per TV

Multiple wins (throughout seasons)

Multiple nominations (throughout seasons)

References

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