Organized Screen Actors Guild Plans Ahead

Los Angeles, California - Next year's 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be held Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The announcement was made by Yale Summers, Chair of the SAG Awards™ Committee on January 17, 2006. SAG will honor outstanding performances from 2006 in five film categories and eight television categories, including the distinctive ensemble awards. Originated by the Screen Actors Guild Awards®, the ensemble awards commend the collaborative performance by a cast in a motion picture and by the ensemble casts of both comedy and dramatic television series. Of the top industry honors presented to performers, only the Screen Actors Guild Awards® are selected exclusively by actors' peers. All active members of SAG will receive ballots to determine who will receive the coveted bronze Actor® statuettes. The SAG Awards™ was the first televised awards show to acknowledge the work of union members. The full calendar for the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be released later this year. Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is the nation's largest labor union representing working actors. Established in 1933, SAG has a rich history in the American labor movement, from standing up to studios to break long-term engagement contracts in the 1940s to fighting for artists' rights amid the digital revolution sweeping the entertainment industry in the 21st century. With 20 branches nationwide, SAG represents nearly 120,000 working actors in film, television, industrials, commercials, video games and music videos. The Guild exists to enhance actors' working conditions, compensation and benefits and to be a powerful, unified voice on behalf of artists' rights. Headquartered in Los Angeles, SAG is a proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO. More information is available online at www.sag.org. This year's 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be simulcast live nationally from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center by TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006 at 8 p.m. ET/ PT, 7 p.m. CT and 6 p.m. MT.