Submissions for SAG-AFTRA’s American Scene Awards® Are Now Open

LOS ANGELES   ̶ Submissions for consideration for SAG-AFTRA’s 2019 biennial American Scene Awards are now open online at asa.sagaftra.org/home. Submissions will close on July 29 at 5 p.m. ET.

The American Scene Awards recognize work in the three main contract categories covered by the union. The honors include the American Scene Award in Entertainment, the American Scene Award in Music & Sound Recordings, and the Belva Davis American Scene Award in Broadcast & News. The awards gala will be presented on Friday, Oct. 11, as part of the celebration event at the Beverly Hilton during SAG-AFTRA’s biennial convention.

Past recipients of the SAG-AFTRA American Scene Award include Twentieth Century Fox Television for This Is Us, KPBS San Diego, Atlantic Music Group for Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) and The Hamilton Mixtape, NPR for Code Switch, Amazon Studios for Transparent, Capitol Records Nashville for Darius Rucker’s Southern Style, Detroit Public Television for Arab American Stories, among other industry leaders.

SAG-AFTRA’s Diversity Advisory and Honors & Tributes committees oversee the American Scene Awards.

About SAG-AFTRA’s American Scene Awards
The American Scene Awards are bestowed on union productions that most intelligently and progressively employ the talents of people of color, people with disabilities, women, seniors, people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer and other misrepresented or under-represented groups to realistically portray the American Scene. The recipients are producers and content creators whose projects exemplify their commitment to employment of our diverse union membership in the following three categories: Entertainment, Music & Sound Recordings, and News & Broadcast. The American Scene Awards are given out biennially at SAG-AFTRA’s national convention.
 

About SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.