United Kingdom, Nov. 15 -- The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards is changing its name.

Acting union SAG-AFTRA, who organise the annual ceremony, have announced the show will now be known simply as the Actors Awards, beginning with March 2026's event because they wanted a title that made "obvious sense" to new viewers following its move to Netflix in 2024.

Jon Brockett, showrunner and executive producer of the award show, and chair of SAG-AFTRA's Awards Committee JoBeth Williams said in a joint announcement: "We wanted to provide clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about for our domestic and global audiences.

"We honour actors in film and television. Laser-focusing the name on those two things became the clearest and most st...