SAG-AFTRA has announced that the Screen Actors Guild Awards will be getting a new name beginning with the 2026 show.
Moving forward, the SAG Awards will now be known as the Actor Awards.
SAG-AFTRA’s Awards Committee chair JoBeth Williams and awards showrunner Jon Brockett announced the news on Friday (November 14) and explained the change in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
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“Since the show started over 30 years ago, our iconic statuette has always been called The Actor, and simply evolving the show’s name to align with the award itself made obvious sense,” they said. “We wanted to provide clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about for our domestic and global audiences — we honor actors in film and television. Laser-focusing the name on those two things became the clearest and most straightforward path for this new chapter of the show.”
They added, “The show’s name is now The Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA, but the foundation remains the same: it’s actors honoring actors. The statuette has always been called The Actor, and we’re simply aligning the show’s title with the name of the award itself and the union behind it.”
The 2026 Actor Awards will be held on March 1, 2026.
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