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This year, actor Harrison Ford is set to be honored as the 61st recipient of SAG-AFTRA’s highest tribute, the SAG Life Achievement Award, which recognizes an individual who has improved the image of the acting profession and carries with them a humanitarian spirit.
The 32nd annual The Actor Awards, known previously on another network as the SAG Awards ceremony, will be click'able all day Sunday, March 1, 2026. It's being held at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall and streamed live on Netflix.
With initial TV appearances on shows like Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F.B.I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu, Ford’s career launcher came with a role in 1973 with George Lucas’ American Graffiti. He partnered again with Lucas who cast him as Han Solo, the dashing but grudging hero in five Star Wars films. He played Indiana Jones in a total of five Indy Jones movies with Lucas. Click Play
NETFLIX NEWS: Last year, Nobody Wants This star, Kristen Bell, hosted the 31st ceremony, in which actor and activist Jane Fonda was celebrated with the SAG Life Achievement Award. This is the third year in a row that the ceremony is streaming live on Netflix as part of a multiyear exclusive partnership between Netflix and the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA. Kristen returns as the host for the 32nd Actor Awards this year as well.
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Ms. Bell sings the praises of hosting for a 3rd time...the charmer:
“I’ve enjoyed hosting the show every time, so it was an easy decision to come back for a third,” said Kristen Bell. “What I’m most excited for is the fact that I’ll be doing what every actor does best…sing :)”
Bell is an actress, philanthropist, children’s book author and producer who currently stars in the highly acclaimed Netflix comedy series, Nobody Wants This, alongside Adam Brody, in which she also serves as an executive producer.
The widely circulated video was created by the Irish director Ruairi Robinson using Seedance 2.0, a powerful artificial intelligence video generation tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance. It had plenty of the bells and whistles of a big-budget Hollywood film: sweeping camera angles, stunt choreography, crisp sound effects and haunting music.
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the national executive director and chief negotiator of SAG-AFTRA, which represents actors and media artists, said its contracts had specific and enforceable rules about digital replication. The kind of material represented by the Cruise-Pitt battle, he said, “could not be produced by any of the signatories to our contracts — the studios, the streamers — without the specific, informed consent of those individuals.”
Derrick Bryson Taylor is a Times reporter
covering breaking news in culture and the arts.
SAG-AFTRA stands with the studios in condemning the blatant infringement enabled by Bytedance's new AI video model Seedance 2.0. The infringement includes the unauthorized use of our members' voices and likenesses. This is unacceptable and undercuts the ability of human talent to earn a livelihood. Seedance 2.0 disregards law, ethics, industry standards and basic principles of consent. Responsible AI development demands responsibility, and that is nonexistent here. 2/13/26
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