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UPDATED with SAG-AFTRA statement: The SAG Awards need a new home: Deadline has confirmed that TNT and TBS will no longer air one of Hollywood’s major events. Launched in 1995 on NBC, the SAG Awards have aired on TNT since 1998. The show has been staged at Santa Monica’s Civic Auditorium, the Shrine Auditorium, and…

SAG-AFTRA has set the timeline for its 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards and announced a network-renewal deal with Turner’s TBS and TNT. The nets will simulcast the ceremony starting January 19, stating at 5 p.m. PT. That’s a week earlier than the 2019 show, thanks to the Oscars' earlier date this…

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…

The season is starting to shift, as usual, into that phase that separates the wheat from the chaff. It is that moment, after Thanksgiving, when everyone who thought they still had a shot gets a sober assessment as critics groups (Gotham, National Board of Review, and New York Film Critics Circle all this week), and…

Sterling K. Brown made history again tonight at the SAG Awards as the first black actor to win Best Actor in a Drama Series. He was also the first black actor to win a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV Drama and was the first black actor in nearly 20 years to win an Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama. Brown has become…

As Nicole Kidman continues to dominate awards shows with her role in HBO’s Big Little Lies, the actress used her acceptance speech not to sing her own praises, but to admire her fellow nominees and the trailblazing female actors who came before her. Recovering from the flu and shaking off a character from a film she…

“This man is a national treasure,” said Rita Moreno before presenting the Life Achievement Award to Morgan Freeman at tonight’s SAG Awards. The Oscar-winning actor stepped on stage as the 54th recipient of the honor, wearing a hip baseball cap. But before he spoke, Moreno said, “Lift your cap up…now they can see…

SAG Awards Committee Chair JoBeth Williams today announced the key dates for the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards set for Saturday, January 18, 2014. The awards ceremony will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS at 8 PM ET. Williams also announced that longtime SAG Awards producer Kathy Connell will now serve as…

Though the media often refer to Outstanding Cast In A Motion Picture award as the Screen Actors  Guild’s version of Best Picture, SAG balks at the comparison. The actors say their winners don’t always match up and in fact are strictly an honor for a cast. But Argo‘s big win in SAG’s marquee film category tonight is a…

On TV, comedies repeat much better than dramas. SAG-AFTRA applied that rule to its awards this year, picking first-run winners on the drama side and repeat ones in comedy. The biggest surprise of the night came in the final TV category, best ensemble in a drama series, which went to British import Downton Abbey. Only…

Busy Phillips (Cougar Town) and Taye Diggs (Private Practice) will announce the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations on Wednesday, December 12. The announcement will be broadcast live on TNT at 9 AM ET. The awards ceremony will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 27 at 8 PM ET. The…

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 20, 2012) – Ballots for the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® nominations will be mailed to this year's SAG Awards film and television nominating committees on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. The Screen Actors Guild Award—The Actor®—is presented for outstanding performances in motion pictures and…