First it was simply the Screen Actors Guild Awards and then when the union merged with another union AFTRA, the Awards became known as the SAG-AFTRA Awards.
Beginning next year, the industry voted Screen Actors Guild Awards will simply be known as the Actor Awards.
The Actor Awards are as the award says awards for acting in American film and television productions that have been voted upon by fellow actors.
SAG-AFTRA explains: “since the show started over 30 years ago, our iconic statuette has always been called The Actor, and simply evolving the show’s name to align with the award itself made obvious sense. We wanted to provide clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about for our domestic and global audiences – we honor actors in film and television.”
SAG-AFTRA noted that they have been discussing making the change for “some time”.