LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Screen Actors Guild Awards’ tendency to predict eventual Oscar winners isn’t the only attention-grabber about this year’s show. Sunday’s broadcast also will focus the spotlight on women, with a nearly all-female roster of presenters.
Executive producer Kathy Connell said the decision to focus on women was inspired by last year’s historic women’s march. She said it feels even more prescient with the recent discussions of sexual harassment, gender discrimination and pay inequity in Hollywood.
The show comes two weeks after a black-dress protest at the Golden Globe Awards kept the emphasis on the treatment of women throughout society.
FILE – In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, Kristen Bell arrives at the 2017 Patron of the Artists Awards at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. Bell will preside over the 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 21. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
The ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium will be broadcast live on TNT and TBS. Awards will be presented in 13 categories, plus lifetime achievement honors for Morgan Freeman.
This combination photo shows, top row from left, Rosanna Arquette, SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris, Mandy Moore, Olivia Munn and bottom row from left, Niecy Nash, Gina Rodriguez, Maya Rudolph and Marisa Tomei, who will present awards at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. (AP Photo)
FILE – In this Jan. 9, 2018 file photo, Actor statuettes are pictured at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, Calif., in preparation for the SAG Awards which will be held on Sunday, Jan. 21 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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