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The Screen Actors Guild Awards, which honors both movies and TV shows, is here.  Nominees for the SAG Awards were announced in January – including the recipient for this year's lifetime achievement award: Sally Field.  Here's how to watch, who's nominated and what else to know ahead of this year's SAG Awards. How to watch Rather than air on a traditional network, this year's award show will stream on Netflix's official YouTube channel.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSAG Awards executive producer Kathy Connell, who helped launch the awards show 28 years ago and has been with the show ever since, has confirmed that this weekend’s ceremony will be her last.“I am retiring,” she tells Variety. “It’s been 28 wonderful years. Well, last year was sort of interesting, but 27 wonderful years.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeJon Brockett has been tapped to serve as executive producer of the Screen Actors Guild Awards this year, joining returning EP Kathy Connell at the helm. Brockett had previously served as a producer on the show, and has been a part of the SAG Awards since its fifth show, while Connell has been with the ceremony since it began in 1995.Brockett and Connell are a part of this year’s production team, which the SAG Awards announced on Thursday. Not returning are Hazy Mills Productions’ Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, who served as EPs with Connell of the in-person 2019 and 2020 events, as well as last year’s pre-taped virtual special.For 2022, as previously reported, the SAG Awards are shaking things up by moving venues, to Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSAG Awards executive producer Kathy Connell likes to refer to the annual ceremony as “the actors’ party in the actors’ house.” But in 2021, she means it literally: “This year, it’s really in their house!”That’s because the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Screen Actors Guild Awards (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m.

(CNN)This year's SAG Awards will be very different from past shows.Speaking to Variety, Todd Milliner, Sean Hayes and Kathy Connell, the show's executive producers, said that the upcoming awards show will be pretaped and only an hour long."We're looking at trying to do a unique award ceremony in an hour and leave people saying, which they very rarely do (with an awards show), 'Man, I wish we had more,'" Milliner told the publication.The news comes on the heels of last Sunday's Golden Globe

SAG Awards ceremony is going to be quite a bit different.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThis year’s SAG Awards are keeping it short and sweet in recognition of this socially distanced age of COVID-19.

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Sean Hayes knows what it’s like to be a guest, a voter, a nominee and a winner at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. But this year, he’ll experience the show from an entirely different angle: backstage, as a producer.