At the SAG Awards 2024, nearly all of this year’s acting-Oscar contenders will be facing off against one another in what could turn out to be a preview of Oscar night. Just as at the Oscars, Cillian Murphy and Paul Giamatti are the front-runners in the best-actor race, with Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone presumed to be leading the pack in best actress. And though Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph have swept virtually every award in their respective supporting categories, the SAG Awards could be one last chance to show their strength—right in the middle of the period Oscar voters have to finalize their ballots.
So yes, there’s a lot on the line! And that’s before you even get into what’s at stake for Netflix, which will be broadcasting the awards for the first time since it struck a deal with SAG last year. (The 2023 awards show was broadcast on Netflix’s YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.) But this year, the process is even simpler.
The show will be streaming on Netflix, right on the platform where you’re already catching up on SAG nominees Maestro, Rustin, The Crown, and Beef. It will be among a handful of live events the streamer has presented in recent years, including the slightly disastrous Love Is Blind finale and the Formula 1 event the Netflix Cup.
The event will kick off live at 8 p.m. ET and 5 p.m. PT on Saturday, February 24. It’s rare for an awards show to stake out a Saturday, but Sunday will be a busy one for many of the contenders, with the Independent Spirit Awards and the Producers Guild Awards also taking place.
Well there’s the nominees, for starters, which includes the five casts in the top best-film-ensemble category—American Fiction, Barbie, The Color Purple, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Oppenheimer—as well as individual nominees in the four acting categories. That includes many of the top Oscar contenders we mentioned at the beginning, as well as actors who made it in with SAG but not at the Oscars, like Ferrari star Penélope Cruz and Barbie herself, Margot Robbie.
And then there’s the TV side of things! Many stars fresh off their Emmy wins will be in attendance, including the crew from The Bear, Beef stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, and the Succession team continuing their victory lap one last time.
Barbra Streisand is set to receive the SAG Life Achievement Award, which will be presented by Jennifer Aniston, and there will be an onstage Devil Wears Prada reunion between Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt, who is nominated this year for her role in Oppenheimer. Other confirmed presenters include Idris Elba, who will open the show, as well as Erika Alexander (American Fiction), Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple), Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction), Michael Cera (Barbie), Jessica Chastain (Mothers’ Instinct), Colman Domingo (Rustin, The Color Purple), Fran Drescher (SAG-AFTRA president), Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Billie Eilish (Swarm), America Ferrera (Barbie), Brendan Fraser (Killers of the Flower Moon), Taraji P. Henson (The Color Purple), Troy Kotsur (CODA), Greta Lee (Past Lives), Melissa McCarthy (Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story), Glen Powell (Hit Man), Issa Rae (American Fiction, Barbie), Storm Reid (The Last of Us), Margot Robbie (Barbie), Tracee Ellis Ross (American Fiction), Alexander Skarsgård (Succession), Omar Sy (Lupin), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), Naomi Watts (Feud: Capote vs. the Swans), and Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction).
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