The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide. Its current president is actor Ken Howard.
The Guild was founded in 1933 in an effort to eliminate exploitation of actors in Hollywood who were being forced into multi-year contracts with major movie studios that did not include restrictions on work hours or minimum rest periods, and often had clauses that automatically renewed at the studios' discretion.
According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers.
SAG also helps to collect compensation for exploitation of recorded performances by its members, and provide protection against unauthorized use of those performances; and preserve and expand work opportunities for its members.
The Screen Actors Guild even has its own awards' ceremony, with the nomination results in December, 2009. The ceremony being held this year on January 23, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. on TNT. It is held annually, with awards given by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) to recognize outstanding performances by members. ~ more about the awards!
The Actor Statuette is what is presented as the official award during the ceremony. It is awarded for excellence in film and television by members of the Screen Actors Guild. ~ a few of the nominees are: Tina Fey, (Fey as Emmy Award winner), Holly Hunter, Glenn Close, Jon Hamm, Hugh Laurie, Christina Applegate, Michael C. Hall, Toni Collette, Edie Falco, Steve Carell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Charlie Sheen, Larry David, Tony Shalhoub...
2010 Nominations for the SAG Awards
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