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Welcome to Deadline's live blog of the 29th annual SAG Awards. Join me as I offer color commentary, instant analysis, and hopefully some dishy insight to Sunday’s awards. Traditionally, the SAG Awards have been an often uncanny bellwether into the way the winds are blowing at the Oscars, at least in…

The stars came together tonight to celebrate achievements in film and television at the 29th annual SAG Awards from the Fairmont Century Plaza, Los Angeles on Sunday, February 26th. The red carpet event began with Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Williams, Ariana DeBose, Angela Bassett, Amanda Seyfried, Viola Davis, Sally…

UPDATED with Stunt Ensemble nominees: SAG-AFTRA on Wednesday unveiled nominations for the guild’s 29th annual SAG Awards as the movie awards season arrives full-steam, coming the same week as last night’s Golden Globes and Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards. Related Story SAG Awards Find A Ne…

UPDATED with details and quote: Mask up, Hollywood. That’s according to Los Angeles County Public Health Officer Barbara Ferrer, and also seemingly according to the film and TV industry’s current Return-to-Work Agreement. “With new hospital admissions reaching more than 8 per week per 100,000 population, they will…

The SAG Awards marked somewhat of a return to normal to awards season as the first in-person televised ceremony of 2022, and the ratings are showing it. With big wins for Squid Game, CODA and Succession, the 2022 SAG Awards saw a rise in viewership to tally 1.8 million total viewers on TBS and TNT. The 28th annual SAG…

Succession had a big night at the 2022 SAG Awards, taking home the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series prize at the annual awards show. Star Brian Cox used the spotlight to voice support for actors, actresses and other talent in Ukraine and Russia, who oppose the ongoing invasion. “It’s truly…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. I always say the precursor awards that really count if you want to figure out who is going to turn out to be an Oscar winner are the various guild awards, which got underway in earnest this week. Their membership inevitably overlaps with that of the…

Bob Kaliban, a veteran voice actor and former president of the New York branch of the Screen Actors Guild, died December 12. He was 87. Kaliban’s voice-over career spanned over 50 years and thousands of commercials, but he perhaps was best known for his long-running role as the "Ty-D-Bol Man," the company's nautically…

Actress Joyce Gordon, the first woman to serve as President of a branch of the Screen Actors Guild, has died. She was 90. As an actor, she was best known as a pioneering performer in early TV commercials and network promos. But her true calling was as a union leader and supporter of her fellow actors. In the 1950s…

In a shuffling of the publicity decks just as the awards season is about to get underway in a few weeks, two PR vets are on the move. Longtime Screen Actors Guild Awards publicity chief Rosalind Jarrett Sepulveda has decided to leave her post after 20 years in the job, and a 50 year career in the entertainment…

Seymour Cassel, an Oscar-nominated longtime actor whose 200-plus screen credits include several John Cassavetes movies and three for Wes Anderson, died Sunday of Alzheimer’s complications in Los Angeles. He was 84. Cassel scored a Supporting Actor Oscar nom for Cassavetes’ 1968 film Faces, a role that also earned him…

Todd Hissong, who served as SAG’s Chicago branch president for six years, was a National Board member for five and had a seat on SAG-AFTRA’s post-merger National Board, died today. He was 64. SAG-AFTRA said Hissong devoted much of his time to serving his fellow union members. Aside from serving as SAG's Chicago Branch…