Nominations for each award are determined by votes from people who are judges in each union. In this case, among the nominations for the director award, the films nominated for the Directors Guild Award have the highest chance of being selected. The same is true for the screenwriter award.

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However, when it comes to the final award voting, all judges have the right to vote for all awards. In this way, the actor with the largest number of Oscar judges becomes the decisive force.

It is actually quite difficult to understand their orientation. Unlike the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, both of which began awarding guild awards in 1949, the Screen Actors Guild has never created an award of its own.

The main reason for this is actually because the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is a relatively niche union. The biggest actors among actors actually belong to another union, AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists).

The members of SAG are all actors who have participated in film shootings or high-budget TV series shootings. A large number of low-level actors are actually members of AFTRA. Although there is overlap between the two, the number of people in AFTRA is much larger than that of SAG.

Therefore, to hold a trade union award, two trade unions need to unite, otherwise it will be difficult to be representative. So it has been difficult to give birth.

Until this year, SAG finally put aside AFTRA and held a separate Screen Actors Guild Awards to recognize actors who have performed outstandingly in movies and major TV series in the past year.

The establishment of this award is actually a move by SAG to expand its influence. If this award also includes TV drama actors, and there are TV stations willing to broadcast it, then SAG will definitely surpass AFTRA in the future...

But how can a Screen Actors Guild Award win a TV broadcast contract? This is actually highly overlapped with the previous Golden Globe Awards. TV stations are generally unwilling to broadcast such an award, and everyone has always thought it could not be done.

However, just when everyone was not optimistic, NBC's local TV station in New York, NBC-12, suddenly announced that it would broadcast the first Screen Actors Guild Awards. This naturally attracted dissatisfaction and resistance from AFTRA...
Chapter completed!