The Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be produced again this year by the award winning producer/director Jeff Margolis and Jeff Margolis Productions (JMP).

Working with the SAG Awards Committee (Yale Summers (Chair), Karla Tamburrelli (Vice-Chair), Daryl Anderson, Shelley Fabares and Paul Napier) and Producer Kathy Connell, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis and the JMP team will assemble some of the industry's top professionals to create a show that celebrates the actor's take on excellence.

The Screen Actors Guild Post-Awards Gala, benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, will be hosted for the 10th consecutive year by PEOPLE Magazine and by the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF).

Lauded by critics for its style, simplicity and genuine warmth, the Screen Actors Guild Awards® has become one of the industry’s most prized honors. The only televised awards shows to exclusively honor performers, it presents thirteen awards for acting in film and television in a fast moving two hour show which airs live on TNT. The awards focus on both individual performances as well as on the work of the entire ensemble of a drama series and comedy series, and the cast of a motion picture. These awards are fundamental to the spirit of the Screen Actors Guild Awards® because they recognize what all actors know – that acting is a collaborative art.

Other highlights of the Screen Actors Guild Awards® include the Life Achievement Award, presented to an established performer for fostering the highest ideals of the acting profession. Last year the Awards Show took time to acknowledge the work of regional actors. In previous years, tribute was paid to stunt performers, background singers, stunt women, dancers, background performers, character actors, animation voice-over performers, commercial actors, and child actors.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards® are also unique in the size of its voting body. Two randomly selected panels of 2100 SAG members each from across the United States select the nominees for television and motion pictures. The final ballot then goes out to the entire active membership of the Guild who select the outstanding performances of the year. The Screen Actors Guild Awards® also benefits the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards® is the only national network television show to acknowledge the work of union members. Screen Actors Guild™ is affiliated with the AFL-CIO through the Associated Actors and Artistes of America (the Four A's)

The inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards® aired live on NBC from Stage 12, Universal Studios, on February 25, 1995. Present that evening were some of the most talented actors in the world, including Tom Hanks, John Travolta, Jessica Lange, Morgan Freeman, Susan Sarandon, Edward James Olmos, Helen Hunt, and hundreds more. Ann-Margret was present to acknowledge her dear friend George Burns as he received the first televised presentation of the Life Achievement Award, the Guild’s highest honor. Unveiled during this evening for the first time was the Guild’s new award statuette, The Actor®™, as well as the first awards for ensembles in drama series and comedy series which honor all of the actors who are the regulars in television series. It is this unique recognition that goes to the fundamental spirit of Screen Actors Guild™, our union -- the acknowledgement of a group effort, both lead and support. From this auspicious beginning the Screen Actors Guild Awards® has been embraced as one of the most prestigious in the entertainment industry

The 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® aired live on NBC from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on February 24, 1996. The brightest stars from film and television were in attendance including Jodie Foster, James Earl Jones, Tom Hanks, Alfre Woodard, Kurt Russell, Harry Connick Jr., Jerry Seinfield, Jimmy Smits, and many more. Tom Skerritt presented Robert Redford’s Life Achievement Award. Enthusiastic response to the first show’s television ensemble categories led to the creation of a similar tribute for motion picture casts. The show also acknowledged the work of background singers and stunt performers and initiated a concept which was to become a staple of future shows, a vignette in which actors tell us "How I Got My SAG Card."

On February 22, 1997 the 3rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® was telecast live on NBC from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Star studded, the actor friendly event saw Glenn Close present the Life Achievement Award to Angela Lansbury. Other highlights of the evening included the reuniting of Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton and Clarence Williams III of the "Mod Squad" to present the Outstanding Performance of an Ensemble of a Drama Series, and LeVar Burton, Cicely Tyson, and Edward Asner, cast members of "Roots", the most watched miniseries in television history, to present the awards for Outstanding Performances by a Male and a Female in a movie or miniseries. The show also saluted stunt women and background singers. Following the evenings events, the Awards Show guests moved onto the stage of the Shrine Auditorium for a post-awards gala benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, hosted by the Entertainment Industry Foundation and People Magazine.

The 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® was telecast live on TNT on Sunday, March 8, 1998 from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.Within the glamorous setting one could get a distinct feeling that a large family had gathered to enthusiastically applaud their fellow family members who received The Actor®™. Due to her hospitalization, Gregory Peck was present to accept Elizabeth Taylor’s Life Achievement Award. Other special acknowledgements went to background performers and founding member and nominee, Gloria Stuart. For the second consecutive year, the Awards Show luminaries moved to the stage of the Shrine Theater for a post-awards gala benefiting Screen Actors Guild Foundation which was sponsored by People Magazine, The Entertainment Industry Foundation, and the Nexxus Products Company.

Celebrating its 5th anniversary on Sunday, March 7, 1999, the Screen Actors Guild Awards® again aired live on TNT from the Shrine Exposition Center. The evening brought out hundreds of motion picture and television actors to honor their peers. SAG members on hand to present the Life Achievement Award to Kirk Douglas included Janet Leigh, Karl Malden, Lauren Bacall, and Dan Aykroyd, along with a moving tribute from son Michael Douglas. A highlight of the evening included a tribute to voice-over performers in animation. The glamorous post-awards gala, benefiting the SAG Foundation and hosted by People Magazine, The Entertainment Industry Foundation and Excite.com, featured the popular band ‘Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.’

The Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center was transformed into a dramatic candlelit dinner venue for the 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® , which aired live on TNT on Sunday, March 12, 2000. A sold-out audience of film and television luminaries gave a standing ovation as Denzel Washington presented SAG's 36th Annual Life Achievement Award to Sidney Poitier, whose moving acceptance speech paid tribute to the actors and filmmakers who shared his groundbreaking artistic journey. Other highlights of the evening included salutes to the talented actors who earn their living creating memorable characters in commercials and to TV's great funny women. The elegant post-awards gala benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation was again hosted by People Magazine and The Entertainment Industry Foundation, joined this year by Cadillac.

"Classic Hollywood" was the décor theme and today's finest actors the focus at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center when the 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® aired live on TNT on Sunday, March 11, 2001. Film and television's leading lights rose to their feet as Whoopi Goldberg presented SAG's 37th Annual Life Achievement Award to Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In an acceptance speech that was a lovely and moving verbal duet, the elegant and eloquent couple characterized themselves as artists, workers, image makers and peacemakers, devoted to elevating by precept and example. Other highlights of the evening included salutes to the flexible "Actors of a Thousand Faces" and to the union's versatile character actors. The very popular post-awards gala benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation overflowed the dramatically decorated tent, and was again hosted by PEOPLE Magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, joined this year by BalanceBar®.

Film and television’s finest actors were greeted by a luminous new set and contemporary table décor when they entered the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition for the 8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® ceremonies which aired live on TNT on Sunday, March 10, 2002. Tom Selleck’s presentation of SAG’s 38th Annual Life Achievement Award to Edward Asner included a retrospective of Mr. Asner’s work as well as reflections by Kate Asner, Ed Begley, Jr., Mike Farrell, Danny Glover and Mary Tyler Moore. Mr Asner’s acceptance speech, like his formidable acting career, was a marvelous mix of humor and serious emotion. Another highlight of the evening was a salute to “Child Actors” introduced by Dakota Fanning, the youngest performer ever to receive an individual Actor® nomination. The post-awards gala benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation was again hosted by PEOPLE Magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, joined by new co-presenter GMC Yukon and, for the second consecutive year, by co-sponsor BALANCE® Bar. The nearly 1100 guests danced, dined and mingled in the domed and tented futurist complex constructed just for the occasion.

When film and television's leading actors stepped on the red carpet for the 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, they were greeted by 10-foot, 200-pound likenesses of the coveted Actor® statuettes. Live music welcomed the 1,000 actors and industry guests inside the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center, which had been transformed into a richly dramatic supper-club setting before a sweeping arched stage for the ceremonies which aired live on TNT on Sunday, March 9, 2003. Humor and affection marked Clint Eastwood's acceptance of SAG's 39th Annual Life Achievement Award from Ray Romano, following a filmed tribute featuring Morgan Freeman, Marcia Gay Harden, Sean Penn, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meryl Streep, The Guild also celebrated the versatility of its members with a special film montage saluting "Actors Who Sing", introduced by three-time Actor® recipient Megan Mullally and a filmed appreciation of "Regional Actors" introduced by previous Actor®-nominee Michael Clarke Duncan. For the seventh consecutive year, PEOPLE magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) in support of the Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented a donation to the Screen Actors Guild Foundation and, along with first year co-presenting sponsor, The Mirage Hotel & Casino and third year co-sponsor, Balance® Bar, hosted the official Post-Awards Gala.

More than 1100 actors and industry notables gathered at the Shrine Exposition Center on February, 22, 2004 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Actor® ceremonies and the 70th anniversary of Screen Actors Guild. The art deco movie palaces of the 1930’s, when Screen Actors Guild was in its infancy, were the inspiration for a new set and décor designed to create the evening’s elegant ambiance. In tribute to the Screen Actors Guild Awards® 10th annual ceremony, Sean Hayes introduced “And The Actor Went To…,” an exuberant look back at a decade of memorable SAG Awards® moments. After an homage on film by Kirk Douglas, Patty Duke, Angela Lansbury and Eva Marie Saint, a graciously eloquent Karl Malden accepted Screen Actors Guild’s 40th Life Achievement Award from Michael Douglas. PEOPLE magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), hosted the Screen Actors Guild Post-Awards Gala for the eighth-consecutive year to honor the philanthropic causes and good works of the members of the Screen Actors Guild. The gala, benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation and commemorating PEOPLE’s 30th Anniversary, immediately followed the SAG Awards in a flower-filled tent on the the Shrine Exposition Center’s backlot. Gala guests were treated to a spirited performance by rock sensation Gavin DeGraw who was spontaneously introduced by Actor® honoree Charlize Theron.

A who's who of American acting celebrated 2004's finest performances and the start of the SAG Awards second decade in ceremonies telecast live on TNT on Sunday, February 5, 2005 from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® stunning production design paid visual tribute to the film and television industry. Flowing sheets of water were a reminder that the Actors® honor performances conveyed through a moving image. Design elements in glass, copper and silver were used in the set architecture, showroom and table decor in homage to the materials from which lenses, lights, cables and film are made. In one of the evening's many emotional high points, Mel Gibson and Julie Andrews presented SAG's 41st Life Acheivement Awards to James Garner, following a unique autobiographical short film in which the beloved actor reflected on the personal and creative journey that brought him to receive SAG's highest honor. The SAG Awards tradition of saluting the Guild's membership took a personal turn as well this year, with the filmed profiles of some of the most accomplished artists among the Guild's stunt performers, puppeteers, voice actors, background actors, singers and dancers. For the ninth consecutive year PEOPLE magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) celebrated actors' work both on and off the screen by hosting the official SAG Awards Gala. The tented back lot of the Shrine Exposition Center was transformed by walls, ceiling and furniture themed in black and white circular shapes accented by thousands of yellow roses into a playful space reminiscent of magical 1960's film sets, where with exuberant partygoers rocked on well into the night.

Voting for the SAG Awards® and Attending Screenings
Voting for the SAG Awards™ is done in two stages. The first stage, the nominations balloting, is voted on by two nominating committees. These nominating committees are selected at random by computer each year. The second stage of voting, the final balloting, begins once nominations have been announced January 5, 2006.

SAG Awards Nominating Committees
Names for the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Theatrical Motion Picture Nominating Committee and Television Nominating Committee will be randomly drawn on April 25, 2005. In order for SAG members to be eligible for the two Nominating Committee drawings, they must be active and have paid their November 2004 dues by April 20, 2005. Also, to be eligible for the 12th Annual SAG Nominating Committees, members may not have served on that SAG Nominating Committee within the last three years.

Final Balloting
Once nominations are announced for the 12th Annual SAG Awards, ballots will be prepared and mailed to the entire active, paid-up SAG membership on January 6, 2006. To be eligible to receive a ballot your November 2005 dues must have been paid and any address changes must have been submitted to SAG by December 1, 2005.

Film Screenings
Please check back to this page regularly during the summer and fall as we will be posting information on committee screenings as well as details on screenings for the general membership during the nominating period.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Deadline for SAG to Receive November 2004 Dues to be Eligible for Nominations Random Sampling

Monday, April 25, 2005
Random Sample Drawn for Nominations Voting

Monday, July 18, 2005
Submissions Open

Thursday, September 1, 2005
Mail Screener Agreements to Theatrical Nominating Committee

Friday, September 23, 2005
Deadline for Nominating Committee Members to Request/Change Address and Return Screener Agreements

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Submissions Close (Due at SAG by 5 p.m., PT)

Friday, December 2, 2005
Nominations Ballots Mailed

Thursday, December 15, 2005
Deadline for Paying November 2005 Dues and/or Changing Address with SAG to be Eligible for Final Balloting

Monday, December 21, 2005
Labels Pulled for Final Balloting

Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Nomination Ballots Due at the Elections Firm by 12 Noon PT

Thursday, January 5, 2006
Nominations Announced in Los Angeles

Friday, January 6, 2006
Final Ballots Mailed to Members

Friday, January 27, 2006
Final Ballots Due at the Elections Firm by 12 Noon PT

Sunday, January 29, 2006
12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Submissions for the 12th Annual SAG Awards will be accepted from Monday, July 18, 2005 until Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 5pm PST. Motion Pictures and television programs exhibited for broadcast during the 2005 calendar year are eligible for nomination. Please review the rules for additional eligibility requirements. Nominations will be announced on January 5, 2006.

We will be posting the downloadable .pdfs of the submission forms early summer and will begin our on-line submission application on the Submissions Open date, July 18th.

Submissions will be accepted in the following categories:

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

TELEVISION
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

For more information regarding the 12th Annual SAG Awards please contact the Awards Office.

Phone
323-549-6707

Fax
323-549-6706

E-mail
awardsinfo@sagawards.org

2005 SAG Awards winners and nominees

Male Actor in a Leading Role:
Don Cheadle / HOTEL RWANDA
Johnny Depp / FINDING NEVERLAND
Films Leonardo DiCaprio / THE AVIATOR
WINNER: Jamie Foxx / RAY
Paul Giamatti / SIDEWAYS

Female Actor in a Leading Role:
Annette Bening / BEING JULIA
Catalina Sandino Moreno / MARIA FULL OF GRACE
Imelda Staunton / VERA DRAKE
WINNER: Hilary Swank / MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Kate Winslet / ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

Male Actor in a Supporting Role:
Thomas Haden Church / SIDEWAYS
Jamie Foxx / COLLATERAL
WINNER: Morgan Freeman / MILLION DOLLAR BABY
James Garner / THE NOTEBOOK
Freddie Highmore / FINDING NEVERLAND

Female Actor in a Supporting Role:
WINNER: Cate Blanchett / THE AVIATOR
Cloris Leachman / SPANGLISH
Laura Linney / KINSEY
Virginia Madsen / SIDEWAYS
Sophie Okonedo / HOTEL RWANDA

Cast:
THE AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
HOTEL RWANDA
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
RAY
WINNER: SIDEWAYS

TELEVISION
Male Actor in a Drama Series:
Hank Azaria / HUFF
James Gandolfini / THE SOPRANOS
Anthony LaPaglia / WITHOUT A TRACE
WINNER: Jerry Orbach / LAW & ORDER
Kiefer Sutherland / 24

Female Actor in a Drama Series:
Drea De Matteo / THE SOPRANOS
Edie Falco / THE SOPRANOS
WINNER: Jennifer Garner / ALIAS
Allison Janney / THE WEST WING
Christine Lahti / JACK & BOBBY

Male Actor in a Comedy Series:
Jason Bateman / ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Sean Hayes / WILL & GRACE
Ray Romano / EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND
WINNER: Tony Shalhoub / MONK
Charlie Sheen / TWO AND A HALF MEN

Female Actor in a Comedy Series:
WINNER: Teri Hatcher / DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Patricia Heaton / EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND
Megan Mullally / WILL & GRACE
Sarah Jessica Parker / SEX AND THE CITY
Doris Roberts / EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND

Ensemble in a Drama Series:
24
WINNER: CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
SIX FEET UNDER
THE SOPRANOS
THE WEST WING

Ensemble in a Comedy Series:
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
WINNER: DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND
SEX AND THE CITY
WILL & GRACE

Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries:
Jamie Foxx / REDEMPTION
William H. Macy / THE WOOL CAP
Barry Pepper / 3
WINNER: Geoffrey Rush / THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS
Jon Voight / MITCH ALBOM’S THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN

Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries:
WINNER: Glenn Close / THE LION IN WINTER
Patricia Heaton / NEIL SIMON’S THE GOODBYE GIRL
Keke Palmer / THE WOOL CAP
Hilary Swank / IRON JAWED ANGELS
Charlize Theron / THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS

Life Achievement Award: James Garner.