28th Screen Actors Guild Awards

28th Screen Actors Guild Awards
28th Screen Actors Guild Awards
	Official poster
Description	Outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances
Date	February 27, 2022
Location	Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California
Country	United States
Presented by	SAG-AFTRA
First awarded	1995
Most awards	Film ; CODA (2) ; Television ; Squid Game (3)
Most nominations	Film ; House of Gucci ; The Power of the Dog (3) ; Television ; Succession ; Ted Lasso (5)
Website	www.sagawards.org
Television/radio coverage
Network	TNT and TBS ; simultaneous broadcast

The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2021, was presented on February 27, 2022 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The ceremony was broadcast live on both TNT and TBS 8:00 p.m. EST / 5:00 p.m. PST. The nominees were announced on January 12, 2022 by Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens via Instagram Live.^[5]

For film, the deaf/non-hearing cast members that are a part of the ensemble of CODA made history by becoming the first disabled performers to receive a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in the awards' history. Individually for CODA, Troy Kotsur became the first deaf/non-hearing actor to receive an individual SAG Award nomination. For television, Squid Game made history by becoming the first non-English series and first Korean series to be nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Individually for Squid Game, Lee Jung-jae became the first male actor from Asia and Korea to receive an individual SAG Award nomination and HoYeon Jung became the second actress of Asian as well as Korean descent to do the same.^[6] With their respective portrayals of Aretha Franklin in the film Respect and television miniseries Genius: Aretha, Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo became the first set of actors to be nominated for playing the same role in the same year.^[7] For her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, Ariana DeBose became the first Afro-Latina and openly queer woman of color to win the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

Helen Mirren was announced as the 2021 SAG Life Achievement Award recipient on November 18, 2021.^[8]

^ "Screen Actors Guild Awards Sets Date for 2022" (Press release). SAG-AFTRA. June 21, 2021. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
^ Pedersen, Erik (June 21, 2021). "SAG Awards 2022 Show Date & Timeline Set". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
^ Schneider, Michael (November 24, 2021). "SAG Awards Changes Venue as Show Returns to In-Person Event in 2022". Variety. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
^ Hipes, Patrick (February 23, 2022). "SAG Awards Adds Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga & Will Smith As Presenters; 'Hamilton' Trio To Reunite To Open Show". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
^ Lewis, Hilary; Coates, Tyler (January 12, 2022). "SAG Awards: 'House of Gucci,' 'The Power of the Dog' Lead Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
^ Sun, Rebecca (January 12, 2022). "'CODA,' 'Squid Game' Make SAG Awards Nominations History". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
^ Towers, Andrea (January 12, 2022). "Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo both score SAG Awards nominations for playing Aretha Franklin". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
^ Schneider, Michael (November 18, 2021). "Helen Mirren to Receive the 2021 SAG Life Achievement Award". Variety. Retrieved January 3, 2022.