When Barbra Streisand accepts the Life Achievement Award at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday (Feb. 24), she’ll become the 61st recipient of that career-capping honor.
She’ll also join a smaller subset of SAG Life Achievement Award winners who have landed hits on the Billboard Hot 100. That group includes Frank Sinatra, one of the few entertainers past or present with a legacy that can match Streisand’s, as well as some other stars you may be surprised to see ever cracked the Hot 100.
This year’s SAG Awards will stream live on Netflix starting at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT. The show will be held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, where Streisand received three of her eight competitive Grammy Awards (for “Evergreen (Love Theme From ‘A Star Is Born’)” and The Broadway Album).
A fair number of Streisand’s co-stars and colleagues have already received the honor. Walter Pidgeon, who played Flo Ziegfeld in her first film, Funny Girl, was honored in 1975. Gene Kelly, the legendary song-and-dance man who directed her second film, Hello, Dolly!, was feted in 1989. Robert Redford, her co-star in the classic romantic drama The Way We Were, was honored in 1996. Robert DeNiro, her co-star in the best-forgotten Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, received the salute in 2020.
For the record, Eddie Cantor, the first recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award in 1963, had hits on Billboard charts that pre-dated the Hot 100, as did Bob Hope (the 1966 recipient), Pearl Bailey (1977), Danny Kaye (1983) and Kelly (1989). But none of them ever reached the Hot 100.
Here are the SAG Life Achievement Award recipients who have cracked Billboard‘s marquee songs chart. We show the year they were presented with the SAG honor and the number of Hot 100 hits they have amassed.
SAG Honoree: 1973
Hot 100 Hits: 44
Notes: Sinatra had 44 Hot 100 hits, three more than Streisand. And he had 100 additional hits from March 1942 until the inception of the Hot 100 in August 1958. Sinatra topped the Hot 100 with the sumptuous “Strangers in the Night” in 1966 and with “Somethin’ Stupid,” a duet with his daughter Nancy Sinatra, in 1967.
SAG Honoree: 1995
Hot 100 Hits: 1
Notes: The beloved comedian was 84 when the reflective “I Wish I Was Eighteen Again” peaked at No. 49 in March 1980. Burns was the Life Achievement Award recipient in the first year of the SAG Awards, which recognize the previous year’s top film and TV acting achievements.
SAG Honoree: 2003
Hot 100 Hits: 1
Notes: Eastwood was featured on T.G. Sheppard’s “Make My Day,” a No. 62 hit in 1984. The title was drawn from one of Eastwood’s most famous movie lines, which he delivered in his 1983 film Sudden Impact.
Eastwood also teamed with Merle Haggard on “Barroom Buddies,” which topped Hot Country Songs in July 1980, but that didn’t make the Hot 100.
SAG Honoree: 2013 (Van Dyke); 2007 (Andrews)
Hot 100 Hits: 1
Notes: These legendary stars teamed on “Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious,” a No. 66 hit in 1965. The tongue-twisting tune, which also featured The Pearlies, was drawn from the Mary Poppins soundtrack, which topped the Billboard 200 for 14 weeks. “Super” was the only Hot 100 hit from the soundtrack, but Oscar voters favored “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” which won best original song. That song, on which Van Dyke was joined by the Jack Halloran Singers (but not Andrews) bubbled under the Hot 100 at No. 123.
SAG Honoree: 2015
Hot 100 Hits: 2
Notes: Reynolds’ biggest hit of the Hot 100 era was “Am I That Easy to Forget,” which hit No. 25 in 1960. Her biggest hit and signature song, “Tammy,” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s pop charts in 1957, a year before the inception of the Hot 100. Reynolds goes even further back than that: “Aba Daba Honeymoon,” a duet with Carleton Carpenter, was a big hit in 1951. Both of these songs were drawn from movies in which Reynolds starred – Tammy and the Professor and Two Weeks With Love, respectively.
SAG Honoree: 2023
Hot 100 Hits: 1
Notes: You can be excused if you don’t remember Field’s sole Hot 100 entry, “Felicidad,” which peaked at No. 94 in 1967, midway through the first season of The Flying Nun. Even in that flyweight show, Field had undeniable charisma.
SAG Honoree: 2024
Hot 100 Hits: 41
Notes: Streisand’s hit tally includes five No. 1 hits: “The Way We Were,” “Evergreen (Love Theme From ‘A Star Is Born’),” “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (with Neil Diamond), “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)” (with Donna Summer) and “Woman in Love.” The first two were both from films in which she starred.