19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
January 28th 2013 02:27
SAG-AFTRA to Honor Finest Performances of 2012
At the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
Live Simulcast on TNT and TBS Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT)
At the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
Live Simulcast on TNT and TBS Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT)
The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, one of the awards season’s premier events, will honor outstanding performances from 2012 in five film categories and eight television categories, including the distinctive ensemble awards.
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 27: Actress Sofia Vergara attends the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/WireImage)
The awards will be handed out at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center during a live simulcast on TNT and TBS Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT). In addition, TNT will present a primetime encore of the ceremony at 10 p.m. (ET) / 7 p.m. (PT), immediately following the live telecast.
Of the top industry honors presented to performers, only the SAG Awards are conferred solely by actors' peers in the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Recording Artists (SAG-AFTRA).
The SAG Awards was the first televised awards show created by a union to acknowledge the work of actors and the first to establish ensemble and cast awards. The presentation of this year’s SAG Awards marks the 16th telecast of this prestigious industry event on TNT and the seventh simulcast on TBS. This year's ceremony will be telecast internationally, as well as to U.S. military installations overseas through the American Forces Network Broadcast Center.
Each year at the SAG Awards, the red carpet and showroom are filled with a who’s who of the entertainment industry as the casts of the year’s best-acted films and television series come together with industry leaders to meet, mingle and cheer their colleagues. Set within an intimate dinner-party atmosphere, the event is an evening of spirited camaraderie, glamorous fashion, warm reunions, spontaneous laughter and shared respect.
Unlike other awards ceremonies, the SAG Awards puts its focus squarely on the actors, from the signature opening montage of "Actors’ Stories" to the acceptance speeches in which Actor recipients speak from the heart to their peers. The Screen Actors Guild Awards are closely watched by the industry as a precursor of possible Oscar and Emmy recognition and by viewers as an emotional, memorable night of live television.
A highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the 2012 SAG Life Achievement Award to Dick Van Dyke.
The accolade celebrates both career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Previous recipients include Mary Tyler Moore, Ernest Borgnine, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Charles Durning, Julie Andrews, Shirley Temple Black, James Garner, Karl Malden, Clint Eastwood, Edward Asner, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Robert Redford and George Burns, among others. A complete list of the 48 previous Life Achievement Award recipients can be found at sagawards.org.
Prior to the televised ceremony, the honors for outstanding action performances by television and film stunt ensembles will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet. The event will be carried live online at tntdrama.com and tbs.com. The online pre-show is set to begin at 6 p.m. (ET) / 3 p.m. (PT).
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 27: Actress Anne Hathaway attends the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/WireImage)
Nominations
SAG Awards nominees are chosen by separate film and television nominating committees, randomly selected anew each year, each consisting of 2,100 SAG-AFTRA members from around the country. This year's nominations were announced on Wednesday, Dec. 12 at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The nominations announcement wascarried live on TNT, as well as on the TNT and TBS websites.
All active members of SAG-AFTRA were mailed voting instructions on Dec. 31. Votes to determine who will receive the coveted bronze Actor statuettes on Jan. 27 must be received by the SAG Awards official teller, Integrity Voting Systems, by Jan. 25.
Screen Actors Guild Post-Awards Gala
PEOPLE Magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) will host the Screen Actors Guild Post-Awards Gala for the 17th consecutive year. This exclusive event honors the philanthropic causes and good works of the members of SAG-AFTRA. The gala, benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation (sagfoundation.org), will immediately follow the SAG Awards® on the back lot of the Shrine Exposition Center.
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 27: Sacha Baron Cohen, Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck and Isla Fisher attend the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Larry Busacca/WireImage)
The SAG Awards: A Leader in Sustainable Production Practices
The Screen Actors Guild Awards is committed to reducing its environmental footprint. For four consecutive years, the event has been honored with the Environmental Media Association (EMA)’s Green Seal, recognizing a production’s outstanding efforts to implement sustainable initiatives and promote environmental awareness. The SAG Awards is the only televised special event to have received this honor four times.
Connect with the SAG Awards
Information: sagawards.org/about/
Facebook: sagawardsofficialpage
Twitter: twitter.com/sagawards/
Google : google.com/ SAGawards
Blog: blog.sagawards.org
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 27: (L-R) Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, actress Busy Phillips and Justin Mikita.attend the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)
About SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA represents more than 165,000 actors, announcers, broadcasters journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. With national offices in Los Angeles and New York, and local offices nationwide, SAG-AFTRA members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists into the 21st century and beyond.
Connect with SAG-AFTRA
Website: sagaftra.orgFacebook: facebook.com/sagaftra/
Twitter: twitter.com/sagaftra/
About TNT & TBS
TNT is television's destination for drama. Seen in 99 million households and ranking among cable's top networks, TNT is home to such original drama series as "Rizzoli & Isles," "Falling Skies," "Dallas," "Perception," "Major Crimes," "Franklin & Bash," "Leverage," "Southland" and the upcoming "Monday Mornings." The network also features dramatic unscripted originals like the upcoming "Boston's Finest," "72 Hours" and "The Hero." In addition, TNT is the cable home to popular dramas like "Castle," "The Mentalist," "Bones," "Supernatural," "Smallville" and "Law & Order;" primetime specials, such as the "Screen Actors Guild Awards;” blockbuster movies; and championship sports coverage, including NASCAR, the NBA and the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
Website: tntdrama.com
TBS is basic cable's No. 1 network among young adults in primetime for the year-to-date. Available in 100 million households, TBS features original primetime comedy series like "Cougar Town," "Men at Work," "Sullivan & Son", "Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse," "Wedding Band," "King of the Nerds," "Deon Cole's Black Box" and "Who Gets the Last Laugh?" as well as the Emmy®-winning late-night series "Conan," starring Conan O’Brien. TBS also features an outstanding slate of contemporary comedies, such as "The Big Bang Theory" and "Family Guy," along with blockbuster movies and championship sports. In addition, TBS produces special live comedy events, like the star-studded Just for Laughs comedy festival held each year in Chicago.
TNT and TBS are part of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company. Turner Broadcasting creates and programs branded news; entertainment; animation and young adult; and sports media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.
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