The Screen Actors Guild Awards, a staple of Hollywood’s award season since 1995, is changing its name. Beginning next year, it will be known as the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA.
The change was announced on Friday by SAG-AFTRA, the union that hosts the awards and the largest labor group in the world representing film and television actors.
The union said on its website that it hoped to make clearer for its domestic and global audiences what its show entailed. The show has reached a much wider audience since Netflix began streaming it in 2024.
“We honor actors in film and television,” the union said on its website. “Laser-focusing the name on those two things became the clearest and most straightforward path for this new chapter of the show.”
The change will also align the show’s name with the name of the statuette that winners receive. Since the awards started more than three decades ago, that statue has been known as the Actor.
SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 performers and other professionals who work in film, television, video games, radio and other media. The union said the name change would not affect the spirit or the purpose of its awards.
“We’re a show that’s entirely about actors,” Jon Brockett, the Actors Awards showrunner and executive producer, said in a statement. “So this new name is a perfect next step in the show’s evolution.”
The annual show presents 15 awards, voted on by actors and other performers who belong to the SAG-AFTRA union, and honoring film and television performances from the previous year. The show can be a bellwether for the Academy Awards, which typically airs a few weeks later.
Netflix will stream the next iteration of the ceremony on March 1.
Derrick Bryson Taylor is a Times reporter covering breaking news in culture and the arts.
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