Sag Awards 2026: ‘Sinners’ Tops Film While The Studio and The Pitt Dominate Television
The Actor Awards ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on March 1 delivered a night of peer-voted honors and a lively after-party at Milk Studios — and the sag awards 2026 results underscored both film and television powerhouses. Winners included Sinners, which took the top motion picture ensemble prize and a lead-actor trophy, while The Studio and The Pitt swept multiple television categories.
Sag Awards 2026: Sinners and Michael B. Jordan
Sinners, a vampire drama set in the segregated South, won best ensemble in a motion picture and its star Michael B. Jordan was named best lead actor for playing bootlegging twins. The film arrived at the ceremony with a record-breaking 16 nominations and remains locked in a tight awards-season race with One Battle After Another, which had recent wins at the Directors Guild Awards and the Producers Guild Awards. Ryan Coogler, the director of Sinners, became the first director to helm two best-ensemble winners at the Actor Awards, after previously winning with Black Panther in 2018.
The Studio, Seth Rogen and Catherine O'Hara
The Studio led television winners with three awards, including best ensemble in a comedy series. Seth Rogen took home the prize for lead actor in a comedy series and accepted a posthumous best lead actress award on behalf of Catherine O'Hara, who died in January at age 71. Rogen spoke about O'Hara's generosity and creative instincts when he accepted her trophy onstage.
The Pitt and Noah Wyle
The Pitt won two awards, among them best ensemble in a drama series, and Noah Wyle added a statue for lead actor in a drama series to his collection. The series cast was celebrated alongside individual winners, underlining television's strong showing on the night.
Supporting Winners: Sean Penn and Amy Madigan
Supporting categories honored darker turns: Sean Penn earned a supporting actor prize for his portrayal of a demented soldier in One Battle After Another, while Amy Madigan won for Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her performance as a literal witch in Weapons. Madigan's victory followed a field that included Odessa A'zion, Ariana Grande, Wunmi Mosaku and Teyana Taylor in the supporting actress race.
Harrison Ford at the Shrine Auditorium and After-Party Fashion
Kristen Bell hosted the main ceremony, which concluded at the Shrine Auditorium before an after-party hosted by Netflix at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. The evening also paid tribute to Harrison Ford with the 2025 SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award — the union’s highest tribute awarded annually to an actor who fosters the "finest ideals of the acting profession. " Ford, 83, acknowledged the honor with a self-deprecating note about the timing of the award and described feeling humbled to receive it while surrounded by nominated peers. The celebrations extended to the red carpet and the party: Kate Hudson wore Valentino on the carpet and later changed from a cream gown into a sleek silver look at the after-party, while Damson Idris wore Prada. The cast of The Diplomat celebrated Keri Russell's win, and onstage and offstage moments saw Russell's on- and offscreen love interests pose together during festivities.
Voting, Other Winners and What It Means Ahead of the Oscars
The prizes are handed out by the labor union SAG-AFTRA and are voted on by the union's members, making these honors a form of peer recognition that shaped the night's outcomes and subsequent acceptance speeches. Jessie Buckley was named best lead actress for Hamnet; Keri Russell won best lead actress in a drama series over Rhea Seehorn; Michelle Williams won best actress in a limited series for playing a woman with terminal cancer in Dying for Sex. Young actor Owen Cooper, 16, beat his co-star Stephen Graham in a best-actor category that is unclear in the provided context. What makes this notable is how the Actor Awards, renamed last November from the Screen Actors Guild Awards, continue to serve as a measuring stick for industry momentum: the ceremony is seen as a noteworthy precursor to the Oscars on March 15, and the mix of ensemble and individual honors tightened the picture for contenders across both film and television.
Because the winners are selected by peers within SAG-AFTRA, the ceremony produced both career tributes and competitive wins that translated into an evening of speeches and a star-studded after-party, reinforcing the awards' role as a barometer of industry sentiment during awards season.
