SAG Awards 2021: Everything to Know About the Nominees, Presenters, How to Watch and More

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SAG Awards 2021: Everything to Know About the Nominees, Presenters, How to Watch and More

The actors’ have spoken! Year after year, Hollywood’s biggest names vote for which of their peers should be recognized for their acting efforts at the Screen Actors Guild Awards — and even the coronavirus pandemic setbacks can’t stop the 2021 show. This year’s nominees include the late Chadwick Boseman for two films, Schitt’s Creek’s Catherine O’Hara, Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page and Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman. The SAG Awards was initially pushed back from January 24 to March 14 amid the worldwide health crisis. It was later rescheduled for Sunday, April 4, after the 2021 Grammys changed its date to conflict with the SAGs. “Throughout these challenging times, our industry and our union members have proven their creativity and resilience in discovering new methods of storytelling while adapting to new safety protocols and procedures,” the SAGs team wrote in a statement on its official website on January 13. SAG-AFTRA extended the eligibility requirements, giving possible nominees a two-month extension amid the continued delays. The union also announced it was switching up how the awards show runs, cutting the broadcast from its usual three-hour length to one hour. [jwplayer kSwMh0c7-l3ahXupL] “We embrace that spirit as we re-imagine the SAG Awards with a one-hour special that highlights and expands on our signature ‘I am an Actor’ opening and honors the outstanding performances of the past year,” the organization’s website read earlier this year. In order to keep the show shorter, the event will be pretaped. “We didn’t know what the year would bring in terms of where we would be in COVID, and to pretend that it was a normal year was just wrong,” SAG Awards executive producer Kathy Connell told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, March 30. “And we are the union, so we wanted our members to be protected. In some instances, our members are in production bubbles, [so] we wanted to make sure we weren’t going to do anything that would prevent them from [working].” Fellow SAG Awards executive producer Todd Milliner added: “Doing all the pretaping allows us to shape the narrative and really get to the best stuff that the actors say, and the most interesting interviews. And it’s packed full.” Scroll down for everything you need to know about the 27th annual SAG Awards: [podcast_block]

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SAG Awards 2021: Everything to Know About the Nominees, Presenters, How to Watch and More

The actors’ have spoken! Year after year, Hollywood’s biggest names vote for which of their peers should be recognized for their acting efforts at the Screen Actors Guild Awards — and even the coronavirus pandemic setbacks can’t stop the 2021 show. This year’s nominees include the late Chadwick Boseman for two films, Schitt’s Creek’s Catherine O’Hara, Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page and Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman. The SAG Awards was initially pushed back from January 24 to March 14 amid the worldwide health crisis. It was later rescheduled for Sunday, April 4, after the 2021 Grammys changed its date to conflict with the SAGs. “Throughout these challenging times, our industry and our union members have proven their creativity and resilience in discovering new methods of storytelling while adapting to new safety protocols and procedures,” the SAGs team wrote in a statement on its official website on January 13. SAG-AFTRA extended the eligibility requirements, giving possible nominees a two-month extension amid the continued delays. The union also announced it was switching up how the awards show runs, cutting the broadcast from its usual three-hour length to one hour. [jwplayer kSwMh0c7-l3ahXupL] “We embrace that spirit as we re-imagine the SAG Awards with a one-hour special that highlights and expands on our signature ‘I am an Actor’ opening and honors the outstanding performances of the past year,” the organization’s website read earlier this year. In order to keep the show shorter, the event will be pretaped. “We didn’t know what the year would bring in terms of where we would be in COVID, and to pretend that it was a normal year was just wrong,” SAG Awards executive producer Kathy Connell told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, March 30. “And we are the union, so we wanted our members to be protected. In some instances, our members are in production bubbles, [so] we wanted to make sure we weren’t going to do anything that would prevent them from [working].” Fellow SAG Awards executive producer Todd Milliner added: “Doing all the pretaping allows us to shape the narrative and really get to the best stuff that the actors say, and the most interesting interviews. And it’s packed full.” Scroll down for everything you need to know about the 27th annual SAG Awards: [podcast_block]

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When Does It Air?

The 2021 broadcast will air on TNT and TBS on Sunday, April 4 at 9 p.m. ET. It will be an hour-long show and will reair the same night at 11 p.m. ET. The awards show is also available to stream on Hulu with Live TV, AT&T TV, Sling TV and YouTube TV.

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Who Is Nominated?

The late Chadwick Boseman was nominated twice, for lead male actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and supporting male actor for Da 5 Bloods. The movies Trial of the Chicago 7 and Minari, meanwhile, each got three nods. In the TV categories, the cast of Schitt’s Creek earned multiple nominations, including both Dan Levy and his father, Eugene Levy, competing for comedy actor. The Crown also came in big with five nods.

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Who Is Hosting?

The SAG Awards is going hostless for the second year in a row. It was previously helmed by Kristen Bell in 2018 and Megan Mullally in 2019.

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Who Is Presenting?

SAG Awards nominee Riz Ahmed will be a presenter for the show, along with Common, Mindy Kaling, Josh Gad and Rita Moreno. Lily Collins, Ted Danson, Daisy Ridley, Jimmy Fallon, Sterling K. Brown and Viola Davis are among the other stars that will make an appearance during the telecast.

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How Has COVID Affected the Show?

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the SAG Awards team opted to pretape the 2021 broadcast and limit it to one hour. In years past, the event has last more than three hours. The SAG-AFTRA winners will also be notified of their win before the April 4 telecast in order to tape their acceptance speeches, but the names will not be shared with the general public.

“Fortunately, the union has quite a few talented people in our ranks,” Connell told THR, revealing there will be other stars featured during the show besides the winners. “We’re taping in safe locations. It can be the actor’s home, in a couple of cases it’s within the actors’ production bubble. The whole thing is all about safety for us. Anybody who goes [to the taping], if it’s our crew, they have been tested within the couple of days before, and they’re wearing masks.”