Key Deadlines and Dates for 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R) Announced

AIRDATE CHANGE: The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R) Ceremony Will Be Simulcast on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016

LOS ANGELES (February 25, 2015) - SAG Awards(R) Executive Producer Kathy Connell today announced the key deadlines and dates for the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R) including a change of airdate for the SAG Awards ceremony which will now be held on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, rather than the previously announced Sunday, Jan. 31. The annual celebration of outstanding performances in film and television will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. (ET)/5 p.m. (PT).

Nominating Committees Selection: The SAG Awards' separate film and television nominating committees are randomly selected anew each year. SAG-AFTRA members from around the country who have not served on the same nominating committee in the past eight years, who are actor/performers, singers, dancers or stunt performers and who have paid their November 2014 membership dues by February 26, 2015, will be eligible to serve on one of this year's committees. Each committee is comprised of 2,200 SAG-AFTRA members. This year's committees will be drawn on Friday, March 13, 2015.

Submissions for nomination consideration for the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will open on Monday, July 6, 2015, at sagawards.org/submissions. With the actor's permission, producers, studios/networks, agents, managers, or publicists may submit a performance from 2015 for consideration in a category of the actor's choosing. Actors may also submit their own performances. Submissions may only be made online.

Nominations for the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be announced on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, carried live on TNT, TBS and sagawards.tntdrama.com. Once nominees are selected, all active members of SAG-AFTRA may cast votes to determine who will receive the coveted Actor(R) statuettes for this year's outstanding performances.

Media credential applications for the nominations announcement and ceremony open on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2015. Publicists credential applications for the nominations announcement open on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015.

One of the awards season's premier events, the SAG Awards annually celebrates the outstanding motion picture and television performances from the previous calendar year. Of the top industry honors presented to actors, only the SAG Awards are selected entirely by more than 110,000 performers' peers in SAG-AFTRA. The SAG Awards was the first televised awards show to acknowledge the work of union members and the first to present awards to motion picture casts and television ensembles.

Upcoming key deadlines and events leading to the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are:

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 Deadline for SAG-AFTRA Members to Pay November 2014 Dues to be Eligible for SAG Awards Nominating Committee Selection

Friday, March 13, 2015 Nominating Committees Drawn by Random Sample

Monday, March 30, 2015 Notification of Selection Mailed to Nominating Committee Members

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Deadline for Selected Members to Opt-in to Serve on Nominating Committees

Monday, July 6, 2015 Submissions Open at sagawards.org/submissions

Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015 Period to Request Paper Final Ballots in Lieu of Online Voting Begins

Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015 Media Nominations and Ceremony Credential Applications Open

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015 Submissions Close at 5 p.m. PT at sagawards.org/submissions

Friday, Oct. 30, 2015 Media Nominations and Ceremony Credential Applications Close

Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 Publicists Nominations Credentials Applications Open

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 Nominations Ballots Mailed

Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 Publicists Nominations Credentials Applications Close

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 Deadline for Paying November 2015 Dues and/or Changing Address with SAG-AFTRA to be Eligible for Final Balloting

Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 Nomination Ballots Due at the Elections Firm by 12 Noon p.m. PT

Tuesday, Dec 8, 2015 Records Pulled for Final Balloting

Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015 Nominations Announced

Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 Publicists Ceremony Credentials Applications Open

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015 Final Voting Information Mailed to Members

Monday, Jan. 11, 2016 Publicists Ceremony Credentials Applications Close

Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 Final Day to Request Paper Final Ballots in Lieu of Online Voting

Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 Final Votes Must be Cast Online or Ballots Received by the Elections Firm by 12 Noon PT

Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R)

About the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R)

The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R) presented by SAG-AFTRA with Screen Actors Guild Awards, LLC will be produced by Avalon Harbor Entertainment, Inc. and will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT). For more information about the SAG Awards(R), SAG-AFTRA, TNT and TBS, visit sagawards.org/about.

Actor(R) Nominations will be announced on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015 at 9 a.m. (ET) / 6 a.m. (PT), carried live on TNT, TBS and sagawards.tntdrama.com preceded by the announcement of the stunt ensemble nominations at 8:50 a.m. (ET) / 5:50 a.m. (PT) carried live on sagawards.tntdrama.com.