Category: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners

In the U. S. many professional dancers are members of unions such as the American Guild of Musical Artists, the Screen Actors Guild and Actors ' Equity Association.

In 2010, she was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens.

In the United States, many of these actors also employ pseudonyms or go uncredited due to Screen Actors Guild regulations or a simple desire to dissociate themselves from the role.

Also that year he received the Screen Actors Guild Annual Award.

Actors Richard DeManincor ( Scott ) and Theresa Tilly ( Shelly ) both went under different " stage names " during the shoot, since they were members of the Screen Actors Guild and wanted to avoid being penalized for participating in a non-union production.

He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors, and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute ; in 1999, the American Film Institute also numbered him 15th in their Greatest Male Stars of All Time list.

* 1989 – Life Achievement Award from Screen Actors Guild.

The Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West are capable of exercising very strong control in Hollywood because a very strong and rigid system of intellectual property rights exists.

Hayes met Lewis during shooting of the televised film and went on to receive a nomination to the Screen Actors Guild Award for best actor.

This somewhat exaggerated view was enhanced by his public contractual wranglings with Warners at the time, his joining of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933, and his involvement in the revolt against the so-called Merriam tax.

Cagney became president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1942 for a two year term.

While the low volume of business conducted by Universal in Germany made such threats largely hollow, the State Department, under pressure from the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and the Screen Actors Guild, stepped in and the German government backed down.

Category: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners

Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for his role.

Category: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners

He is also a voting member of the Screen Actors Guild.

* The Screen Actors Guild

He won a number of Emmys, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globes for his work on Frasier.

* 1995: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series-Chicago Hope

Moore was awarded the 2011 Screen Actors Guild's lifetime achievement award.

He also gave up his presidency of the Screen Directors Guild.

** Screen Directors Guild Award for Best Foreign Film

The film won the 1981 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( Film ) Best Screenplay Award, as well as the 1980 Writers Guild of America Award ( Screen ) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium.

Specifically, for film and television actors, an actor not in the union who becomes a " principal performer " ( says a line ) is immediately eligible to join the Screen Actors Guild and is covered under the SAG contract with the production company for 30 days, at which point he or she must either join SAG or cease working on any union productions ; this same provision applies to so-called " background actors " ( extras ) who work on a SAG covered production for 3 or more days.

At a 1997 ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the blacklist, Richard Masur, then President of the Screen Actors Guild, apologized for the union's participation in the ban, noting: " Only our sister union, Actors ' Equity Association, had the courage to stand behind its members and help them continue their creative lives in the theater.

The Screen Actors Guild ‐ American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ( SAG-AFTRA ) is an American labor union representing over 150, 000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide.

A performer is eligible to join the Screen Actors Guild by meeting the criteria in any of the following three categories: principal performer in a SAG production, background performer ( originally the " three voucher rule "), and one-year member of an affiliated union ( with a principal role ).

During the production of Dumbo, Herbert Sorrell leader of the Screen Cartoonists Guild labour union, demanded Disney sign with his union.

Many of the animators joined the Screen Cartoonists Guild, including Art Babbitt who became one of the union leaders.

The challenge of rooting out Communists from labor unions and the Democratic party was successfully undertaken by liberals, such as Walter Reuther of the autoworkers union and Ronald Reagan of the Screen Actors Guild ( Reagan was a liberal Democrat at the time ).

Most major productions are union productions, and non-members join the Screen Actors Guild through performing as extras and earning three union vouchers, or by being given a speaking line and entering that way.

While living in Los Angeles, Nelson was an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and was elected to the union board for many years.

Harold later legally changed his name back to his birth name, after discovering there was already a Harold Williams in the Screen Actors Guild union.

From 2005 to 2009, he was president of the Screen Actors Guild, the principal motion picture industry on-screen performers ' union.

The Screen Writers Guild was an organization of Hollywood screenplay authors formed as a union in 1933.

In 1954, the members of the Screen Writers Guild backed the formation of a national union of a broader organization of writers working in motion pictures, television and radio, divided into two geographical bodies: Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East.

The organization lasted until 1936 when members of the MPDA helped create the Screen Directors Guild, an official craft union.

One cited problem is that the Screen Actors Guild has a clause in their contract to protect their actors ' privacy which says that the producers of all union productions must give up their rights to the actor's performance for anything but the edited movie.

However, the major job of rooting out Communists from labor unions and the Democratic party was undertaken by liberals, such as Walter Reuther of the autoworkers union and Ronald Reagan of the Screen Actors Guild ( Reagan was a liberal Democrat at the time ).

On March 30, 2012 the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ( AFTRA ) completed a merger of equals forming a new union SAG-AFTRA and as a result of this merger a group of actors including Schaal, her former stepmother Valerie Harper, fellow voice actor Michael Bell and actors Edward Asner, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris to name a few immediately filed a lawsuit against SAG President Ken Howard and several SAG Vice Presidents to have the merger overturned and the two unions separated because of their claims that the election held by both the SAG and AFTRA memberships was improper.