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Rosalind Jarrett
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SUBMISSIONS FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THE 16th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS® NOMINATIONS
CLOSE WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28
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SAG Awards® will be Simulcast on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010
Los Angeles (October 26, 2009) – The deadline for consideration for nomination for this year’s Actors® is fast approaching. Submissions for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® must be filed by Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009 at 5 p.m. (PT) .
Submissions can be accepted online at www.sagawards.org/submissions.
The Screen Actors Guild Award—The Actor®—is presented for outstanding performances in motion pictures and primetime television. Actors may submit their own performances from 2009 for consideration in categories of the actor’s choosing. With the actor’s permission, producers, studios/networks, agents, managers, or publicists may also submit performances for consideration. Nominations for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be announced on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009.
Of the top industry honors presented to performers, only the Screen Actors Guild Awards are selected entirely by actors’ peers. Recipients of the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be announced at ceremonies on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, simulcast from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT and 6 p.m. MT.
The nominees for performances in 2009, including the distinctive ensemble awards and SAG stunt ensemble honors, will be chosen by two separate film and television nominating panels, each comprised of 2,100 SAG members from across the United States, randomly selected each April. Nomination voting closes on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. Final SAG Awards ballots will be mailed Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009, to all eligible voting members of Screen Actors Guild, to be returned by Thursday, Jan. 21, to the Guild’s election firm, where results will be sealed until they are opened onstage at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Jan. 23.
Complete rules and regulations for the 16th Annual SAG Awards are posted at www.sagawards.org/rules.
“The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards” will be produced by Jeff Margolis Productions in association with Screen Actors Guild Awards®, LLC. Jeff Margolis is the executive producer and director. Kathy Connell is the producer. JoBeth Williams, Daryl Anderson, Scott Bakula, Shelley Fabares and Paul Napier are producers for SAG. Gloria Fujita O’Brien and Mick McCullough are supervising producers. Benn Fleishman is executive in charge of production. More information is available online at www.sagawards.org.
Screen Actors Guild is the nation’s largest labor union representing working actors. Established in 1933, SAG has a rich history in the American labor movement, from standing up to studios to break long-term engagement contracts in the 1940s to fighting for artists’ rights amid the digital revolution sweeping the entertainment industry in the 21st century. With 20 branches nationwide, SAG represents more than 120,000 actors who work in film and digital theatrical motion pictures and television programs, commercials, video games, industrials, Internet and all new media formats. The Guild exists to enhance actors’ working conditions, compensation and benefits and to be a powerful, unified voice on behalf of artists’ rights. Headquartered in Los Angeles, SAG is a proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO. More information is available online at www.sag.org.
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Jeff Margolis Productions in association with Screen Actors Guild Awards®, LLC
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