The Screen Actors Guild Awards is getting a rebrand.
Starting subsequent yr, the annual awards present which celebrates appearing throughout movie and tv – and is voted on by actors inside the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) – will likely be named after the precise award, The Actor, according to the organization.
“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,” the Actor Awards web site acknowledged, including that the group “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.”
The web site additionally mentioned that this evolution has been “a long time coming” and that since “the show’s global audience expanded through Netflix, the timing felt right to make the alignment official and step confidently into the show’s next era.”
According to its site, SAG-AFTRA “represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals.”
The Screen Actors Guild was based in 1933 and the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) was fashioned 4 years later. In 1952, the Television Authority merged with AFRA and have become AFTRA.
In 2012, the 2 entities mixed to kind SAG-AFTRA.
The award present, now formally titled The Actor Awards offered by SAG-AFTRA, streams on Netflix and can subsequent be seen stay on March 1, 2026.
Nominations will likely be introduced on January 7.