A new batch of award nominations are here sporting a new face.
The Actor Awards—previously known as the SAG Awards before the Screen Actors Guild voted to change the name in November—announced its slate of nominees for the upcoming March ceremony celebrating the best that TV and film had to offer throughout 2025. This year's nominations were announced by Abbott Elementary's Janelle James as well as Heated Rivalry's Connor Storrie.
If the Actor nominations following a similar pattern to that of Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globe nominations, it is likely that Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet and Marty Supreme—with nods for individual performances from the likes of Jessie Buckley, Michael B. Jordan, Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothée Chalamet—will be among the top contenders on the film side of the house.
Meanwhile, on the TV side of the house, the stars of shows such as Adolescence, The Pitt and Severance are likely to dominate the lists. After all, Owen Cooper, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham—all from Adolescence—as well as Katherine LaNasa and Tramell Tillman all earned awards at the Critics Choice Awards.
Each year, the Screen Actors Guild award show honors individual, ensemble and stunt performances from film and TV projects.
But this year, thirty years after the ceremony’s founding, the show will come with a new name: The Actor Awards.
For SAG-AFTRA union leaders, the voting was held to ensure the show’s title made “obvious sense” for new viewers, especially after the show’s move to Netflix in 2024.
"We wanted to provide clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about for our domestic and global audiences," show runner Jon Brockett and SAG-AFTRA chair JoBeth Williams shared in a joint announcement on Nov. 14. "We honor actors in film and television. Laser-focusing the name on those two things became the clearest and most straightforward path for this new chapter of the show."
Plus, it didn’t hurt that the show’s logo and statuette have always been called “The Actor,” making the new name seem an obvious choice.
Otherwise, Jon and JoBeth promise business as usual: “Only the show name is changing. The foundation remains the same, it’s actors honoring actors."
As for the full list of actors nominated by their fellow actors at this year’s ceremony, read on.
Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
- Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex
- Claire Danes, The Beast in Me
- Erin Doherty, Adolescence
- Sarah Snook, All Her Fault
- Christine Tremarco, Adolescence
Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
- Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit
- Owen Cooper, Adolescence
- Stephen Graham, Adolescence
- Charlie Hunnam, Monster: The Ed Gein Story
- Matthew Rhys, The Beast in Me
Female Actor in a Comedy Series
- Kathryn Hahn, The Studio
- Catherine O’Hara, The Studio
- Jenna Ortega, Wednesday
- Jean Smart, Hacks
- Kristin Wiig, Palm Royale
Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- Ike Barinholtz, The Studio
- Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
- Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
- Seth Rogen, The Studio
- Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
- Abbott Elementary
- The Bear
- The Studio
- Hacks
- Only Murders in the Building
Female Actor in a Drama Series
- Britt Lower, Severance
- Parker Posey, The White Lotus
- Keri Russell, The Diplomat
- Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus
- Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
Male Actor in a Drama Series
- Sterling K. Brown, Paradise
- Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
- Walton Goggins, The White Lotus
- Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
- Noah Wyle, The Pitt
Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
- The Diplomat
- Landman
- The Pitt
- Severance
- The White Lotus
Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme
- Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good
- Amy Madigan, Weapons
- Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
- Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Miles Caton, Sinners
- Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
- Jacon Elordi, Frankenstein
- Paul Mescal, Hamnet
- Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
- Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
- Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
- Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
- Emma Stone, Bugonia
Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
- Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
- Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
- Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
- Jesse Plemmons, Bugonia
Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- Marty Spreme
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
- F1
- Frankenstein
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
- Andor
- Landman
- The Last of Us
- Squid Game
- Stranger Things