SAG Awards

Kristen Bell is set to host the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will stream live on Netflix on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.
This marks Bell’s second time hosting the show. She first did the honors in 2018, when she became the show’s first host. (The show had gone host-less in its first 23 years.)

“Thrilled to be hosting the SAG Awards again this year,” said Bell. “I’m honored to be asked back and can’t wait to share the evening with my fellow actors, doing what we do best… celebrating ourselves.”

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“Kristen Bell’s wit, warmth and charm makes her the perfect fit for our show – a night celebrating actors and the outstanding performances of the year,“ said SAG Awards executive producer Jon Brockett. ”Plus — everybody wants this.”

Brockett’s line is a play on the title of Bell’s hit Netflix comedy series, Nobody Wants This, in which she starred alongside Adam Brody and also served as an executive producer. Bell is set to reprise her role in season 2 of Nobody Wants This.

Bell is probably best known in music circles for giving voice to Anna in the animated blockbusters Frozen and Frozen 2. The Frozen soundtrack topped the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks in 2014 and spawned numerous Hot 100 singles, including three on which Bell was featured: “For the First Time in Forever,” “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” and “Love Is an Open Door.”

Nominations for the 31st SAG Awards will be announced on Jan. 8. As previously announced, actress and activist Jane Fonda will receive SAG-AFTRA’s highest honor, the SAG Life Achievement Award.

This is the second year of an exclusive, multi-year partnership between the SAG Awards and Netflix. In addition, the 2023 show streamed on Netflix via YouTube.

Silent House Productions will return to produce the 31st annual ceremony. Jon Brockett, along with Silent House Productions’ Baz Halpin, Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn, will serve as executive producers. Those three producers won Primetime Emmys in 2023 as executive producers of Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love, which was voted outstanding variety special (pre-recorded).

The 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. The two-hour ceremony will stream live coast-to-coast on Netflix at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. This will mark the show’s second consecutive year streaming live on Netflix.
The SAG Awards annually celebrates the year’s outstanding motion picture and television performances. Voted on by SAG-AFTRA’s membership of 119,000-plus performers, the SAG Awards has the largest voting body on the awards circuit.

The SAG Awards have proven to be a solid – but not infallible – Oscar indicator. At this year’s SAG Awards, the trophies for film acting went to Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer, Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon, Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer and Da’vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers. All but one repeated those wins at the Oscars. (The exception was Gladstone, who lost at the Oscars to Emma Stone for Poor Things.)

The SAG Awards give their members ample time – more than five weeks – to vote in the final round. Voting is set to open on Wednesday, Jan. 15, and to close on Friday, Feb. 21 – just two days before the awards are announced. This timetable ensures that the voting is fresh and up-to-the-minute. At some other awards shows, voting closes a full month before the awards are announced.

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Eligible performances must air or premiere between Jan. 1, 2024, and Dec. 31, 2024. All submissions must be submitted online via the SAG Awards’ website.

Here are deadlines and events leading up to the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards:

Monday, Aug. 29: submissions open

Friday, Nov. 1: submissions close at 5 p.m. PT

Monday, Dec. 16: nominations voting opens

Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025: nominations voting closes at 5 p.m. PT

Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025: nominations announced

Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025: final voting opens

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025: final voting closes at 12:00 noon PT

Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025: 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards air live on Netflix