The 2026 Actor Awards, the ceremony formerly known as the SAG Awards, is underway Sunday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with Kristen Bell returning to host and Netflix streaming live.
Already tonight, an emotional moment when The Studio‘s Catherine O’Hara won Outstanding Female Actor in a Comedy Series for Apple TV’s The Studio. O’Hara died January 30 after a brief illness at age 71. Her co-star Seth Rogen, who won Best Actor in a Comedy Series earlier in the night, did the honors with a heartfelt acceptance speech after her name was read, and the crowd rose to its feet.
Rogen repeated his Emmy win with his victory tonight, as did Noah Wyle, who tonight won the Actor in a Drama series prize for HBO Max’s The Pitt.
The Studio and The Pitt overall also repeated their series Emmy success, taking the Comedy Series Ensemble and Drama Series Ensemble trophy, respectively.
Other early winners tonight included Keri Russell winning Best Actress in a Drama series for Netflix’s The Diplomat. Michelle Williams won the Television Movie or Limited Series best actress race for FX/Hulu’s Dying For Sex and Adolescence’s Owen Cooper, also an Emmy winners, won in the Television Movie or Limited Series best actor race.
HBO’s The Last of Us in a repeat of last year and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning picking up wins in the respective TV and film stunt categories.
In all, 15 competitive categories across film and TV are up for grabs, including SAG-AFTRA‘s marquee Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, the closest the awards ceremony has to a Best Picture category.
This year, all five nominees in the Cast category this year — Frankenstein (Netflix), Hamnet (Focus Features) Marty Supreme (A24), One Battle After Another (Warner Bros) and Sinners (Warner Bros) — are all also up for the Best Picture Oscar. That was the case in 2025 too, when Conclave took SAG-AFTRA’s Ensemble prize but lost at the Oscars to Anora. That snapped a streak of three consecutive SAG winners (Oppenheimer, Everything Everywhere All at Once and CODA) who had gone on to claim Oscar’s Best Picture.
The Actor Awards have been even better at jibing with Oscar in the acting categories — the Actors Branch at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the largest of all the branches, after all. This year’s frontrunners are in the mix including Hamnet‘s Jessie Buckley, Bugonia‘s Emma Stone, One Battle‘s Leonardo DiCaprio and Marty Supreme‘s Timothée Chalamet, who won the best actor prize last year for A Complete Unknown.
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Tonight’s ceremony will also see Harrison Ford receive SAG-AFTRA’s Life Achievement Award.
Below are this year’s winners and nominees lists.
Actor Awards Winners List
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A DRAMA SERIES
The Pitt (HBO Max)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Owen Cooper, Adolescence
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES
The Studio (Apple TV)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Noah Wyle, The Pitt
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Catherine O’Hara, The Studio
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Michelle Williams, Dying For Sex
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Seth Rogen, The Studio
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
OUTSTANDING STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A TELEVISION SERIES
The Last of Us (HBO)
OUTSTANDING STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount)
Actors Awards Nominees List
Motion Pictures
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Hamnet (Focus Features)
Marty Supreme (A24)
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)
Sinners (Warner Bros)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Emma Stone, Bugonia
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Jesse Plemons, Bugonia
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Miles Caton, Sinners
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme
Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
OUTSTANDING STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
F1 (Apple Original Films)
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount)
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)
Sinners (Warner Bros)
Television
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A DRAMA SERIES
The Diplomat (Netflix)
Landman (Paramount+)
The Pitt (HBO Max)
Severance (Apple TV)
The White Lotus (HBO)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Sterling K. Brown, Paradise
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Walton Goggins, The White Lotus
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Noah Wyle, The Pitt
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Britt Lower, Severance
Parker Posey, The White Lotus
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus
Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX/Hulu)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
The Studio (Apple TV)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ike Barinholtz, The Studio
Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
Seth Rogen, The Studio
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Kathryn Hahn, The Studio
Catherine O’Hara, The Studio
Jenna Ortega, Wednesday
Jean Smart, Hacks
Kristen Wiig, Palm Royale
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit
Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Charlie Hunnam, Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Matthew Rhys, The Beast In Me
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Claire Danes, The Beast In Me
Erin Doherty, Adolescence
Sarah Snook, All Her Fault
Christine Tremarco, Adolescence
Michelle Williams, Dying For Sex
OUTSTANDING STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A TELEVISION SERIES
Andor (Disney+)
Landman (Paramount+)
The Last of Us (HBO)
Squid Game (Netflix)
Stranger Things (Netflix)