2025 SAG Awards: Every Viral Moment & Best Memes of the Night (Updating Live)

The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild returned to Netflix with Kristen Bell back to host for her second time, while Wicked and Shogun led the film and television sides, respectively, tied with five nominations each.

While Sunday night's 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony is a big night for actors, it was also a proving ground for Netflix, back for its second year to live stream the event that's essentially by actors, for actors, and all about the actors.

The "I Am an Actor" segment again kicked off a night that showcased the best of the best in both film and television, with actors telling a bit of their stories as performers. On the big screen, Wicked continued its dominant ways, with five total nominations, followed by A Complete Unknown with four, and Anora and Emilia Pérez with three each.

On the television side, Shōgun matched Wicked with five total nominations, followed by The Bear, The Diplomat, and The Penguin, with three apiece.

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Jonathan Bailey joined both Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande with acting nods, while Wicked was also up for its Stunt Ensemble and Cast. Anna Sawai picked up an acting nod on the women's side, while Tadanobu Asano and Hiroyuki Sanada compete against each other on the men's side. The FX series will also compete for Drama Ensemble.

On the limited series or TV movie slate, The Penguin got a lot of love, along with Baby Reindeer, with each picking up male and female lead nominations for Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti for the Batman spinoff and Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning for the true crime drama.

The Bear continued its comedy dominance with acting nods for Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, and Liza Colón-Zayas, as well as a Comedy Ensemble nomination. Host Bell is also competing in Comedy Series, as is her Nobody Wants This costar Adam Brody.

Other notable nominees on the night included Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis for The Last Showgirl, Demi Moore for The Substance, Nicola Coughlan for Bridgerton, and a one-two shot for Kathy Bates with Matlock and The Great Lillian Hall. Plus, comedy icon Julia Louis-Dreyfus was on hand to celebrate the career of Jane Fonda with the SAG Life Achievement Award.

Harrison Ford Crashes an Actor

As always, the show opened with a segment featuring a few of the famous faces in the crowd sharing their "I Am an Actor" story, but it was one of the biggest actors on the planet who stole the spotlight of the whole segment ... without saying a word.

From Mikey Madison's wild journey through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, to Jodie Foster's Coppertone commercial story, we got to enjoy some truly charming stories, and one hilarious bite of food.

As Shrinking star Jessica Williams got the spotlight to share her story, all eyes were immediately drawn to costar Harrison Ford, sitting next to her and peering over her shoulder as he noshed on a snack.

It quickly stole her moment in the most adorable way, as she jokingly snapped, "I told him to turn away," yelling back at him, "Don't look!"

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Do You Want to Be an Actor?

As we look across a sea of famous faces at the height of their careers, it's easy to forget that all of them were once struggling actors fighting for any moment of screen time to "make it" in this business.

At least it was, until Kristen Bell dropped an epic parody of a Frozen classic "Do You Want to Be an Actor?" Almost no star was left unexplored as she sang her song alongside some of their earliest moments, including that aforementioned Jodie Foster suntan lotion ad.

She even shared a clip from her one of her own earliest projects. Even better, most of the clips where paired with a live shot from the audience as the celebrities were surprised by and got to relive their nascent acting skills. It's also a beautiful reminder that everyone starts somewhere, so keep going!

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Kieran Culkin Counts Himself Down

Picking up the win for Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain, Kieran Culkin opened with a hilarious dig at Adrien Brody as he noted that winners are given 45 seconds -- before immediately backing down and apologizing for the light-hearted jab.

"There was no reason to take that shot. I love you. It's a joke. You take your time," he quickly told his fellow nominee.

He went on to thank his "wonderful, gorgeous, funny wife Jazz," and offered a special shoutout to costar, screenwriter and director Eisenberg -- counting himself out of time as he did so -- who took a chance on him for this role without an audition.

Teleprompter Troubles

If there was one consistent theme through the 2025 SAG Awards, it was that the teleprompters might have been the true villains of the night.

From Mikey Madison's Anora Russian costars reading the stage directions to Joey King completely missing that they were telling her Martin Short wasn't there, the teleprompters created more awkward and cringeworthy moments than the tongue-tied stars and the scripted bits.