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SAG-AFTRA Mourns the Passing of Charles Durning
SAG-AFTRA mourns the passing of Charles Durning, an army veteran, acclaimed actor and 2007 SAG Life Achievement Award honoree. Durning died Dec. 24 at age 89.
SAG-AFTRA Mourns Passing of Astronaut Neil Armstrong
SAG-AFTRA mourns the passing of astronaut Neil Armstrong, one of our greatest American heroes who contributed significantly to this country’s spirit of adventure and scientific curiosity. Armstrong died Saturday at age 82.
Dick Van Dyke Honored with 2012 SAG Life Achievement Award
49th Annual Accolade to be Presented During the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Simulcast Live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 27, 2013
SAG New Media to Sponsor Inaugural Web Television Awards
SAG New Media is proud to support the inaugural IAWTV Awards on January 12 during the International CES in Las Vegas. The awards honor the best of new media and showcase the amazing talent of not only SAG performers, but of the new media community at large. (Click here for a list of SAG-signatory nominated productions.)
Silvestri Honored by SAG Singers at Meet the Composer III
Accomplished composer Alan Silvestri was lauded by his peers at a special evening in his honor on October 27.
Organized by Screen Actors Guild Hollywood Singers Committee, Meet the Composer III took place at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills and highlighted Silvestri’s contributions to film and television, including CHiPs, Starsky and Hutch, the Back to the Future trilogy, Forrest Gump, The Abyss, Predator, Stuart Little, and many others.
SAG Honors Marlee Matlin at Media Access Awards
Los Angeles (Oct. 6, 2011) — Actor Marlee Matlin was honored today with the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Harold Russell Award at the 2011 Media Access Awards. The awards, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., aims to raise awareness of people living with disabilities and seeks to have them represented accurately in television and film.
SAG Official Honored with Spirit Award
Los Angeles (Sept. 19, 2011) — Screen Actors Guild congratulates its Deputy National Executive Director and General Counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland for being selected as the recipient of the 2011 Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Charles R. English Spirit Award.
SAG Members Awarded Union Plus Scholarships
Union Plus has awarded $150,000 in scholarships to 130 students representing 43 unions, including four representing Screen Actors Guild in the 2011 Union Plus Scholarship Program.
Screen Actors Guild congratulates scholarship recipients:
•Evan Griffith of New York, NY, whose parents Edward and Lisa Griffith are both SAG members, has been awarded a $500 scholarship.
•Jan Neuberger of Newtown, CT, who has been a SAG member since 1974, has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship.
