SAG-AFTRA Rebranded

The Screen Actors Guild Awards has officially rebranded as the Actor Awards ahead of its 32nd annual event.

SAG-AFTRA explained on the awards show's website that it changed its name "to better reflect its true spirit and position as the only industry honor given to actors, by actors."

"The new name, The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA, is inspired by both our iconic statuette, The Actor, and the power of human performance," the website reads. "Nothing about what makes the show special is changing. The Actor Awards remain exclusively voted on by SAG-AFTRA members. The categories remain the same, and the night remains ours as a gathering of actors honoring actors."

"Since the show’s inception, the statuette has been called The Actor, and, as the show’s global audience expanded through Netflix, the timing felt right to make the alignment official and step confidently into the show’s next era," the website adds.

SAG-AFTRA announced that it was changing the SAG Awards' name to the Actor Awards in November 2025.

"Since the show started over 30 years ago, our iconic statuette has always been called The Actor, and simply evolving the show’s name to align with the award itself made obvious sense," the union wrote in a release at that time.

"We wanted to provide clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about for our domestic and global audiences — we honor actors in film and television. Laser-focusing the name on those two things became the clearest and most straightforward path for this new chapter of the show."

The 2026 Actor Awards, hosted by Kristen Bell, streamed live on Netflix. This year’s Life Achievement Award honoree is Harrison Ford.