The Screen Actors Guild Awards were first handed out 30 years ago—a lifetime in Hollywood. It’s only natural, then, for the ceremony to get a little nip and tuck. Vanity Fair can exclusively reveal that, as of this year, the annual awards show honoring performers in film and television will be known as the Actor Awards, presented by SAG-AFTRA.

This major change comes on the heels of several notable shifts for the event, which most people call the SAG Awards. The SAG Awards ditched cable in 2023 to stream live on Netflix’s YouTube channel, moving to the streamer’s actual platform in 2024. Having increased global reach motivated the guild’s leadership to consider a name that felt more universal. “The evolution of this has been a long time coming,” showrunner Jon Brockett tells VF. “We

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