In past years, studios, networks, production companies, and individual actors have achieved much success with sending screening schedules, DVDs and promotional material mailings to our SAG Nom Comm (see “Mailings” below for guidelines). We encourage you to place the actual performances you will be submitting directly in the hands of our voting members. Our nominating committees were selected on April 16, 2010. Please see the rules book for an explanation of how the nominating committees are chosen.

We ask you to incorporate the Stunt Ensemble honors into your awards planning, and arrange screenings for the films and television series that you wish to be considered.
 

TELEVISION NOMINATING COMMITTEE (TV Nom Comm)

The TV Nom Comm has received a letter informing them that they have been selected to vote in our
television categories.  You may send them mailings encouraging them to watch.  “For your consideration” DVDs have been warmly received by our members. You might also consider screenings of your shows and talent Q&As. We also permit you to stream episodes of your series online for consideration. Please contact our office for more information. 
 

THEATRICAL NOMINATING COMMITTEE (Theatrical Nom Comm)

The Theatrical Nom Comm has been mailed a special card indicating that they are a member of this year’s “SAG Nom Comm”. This “SAG Nom Comm” card will admit them to both your private screenings and the public screenings you advertise in the newspapers. We encourage you to pre-arrange with the theater owners to accept this “SAG Nom Comm” card, so that you may offer your films to the “SAG Nom Comm” at neighborhood theaters. Please alert your advertising department to place the term “SAG Nom Comm” in your newspaper ads.

As before, you may send DVDs, screening and Q&A invitations and screening schedules to the nominating committee members through our mailing house.

The “SAG Nom Comm” members will also be sent a screener agreement, which will need to be signed and returned in order to be eligible to receive encoded screeners. We will keep a separate database of “SAG Nom Comm” members who returned this agreement. Please contact our office for information on how to send encoded screeners to the “SAG Nom Comm.”

MAILINGS

All For Your Consideration mailings must be approved, scheduled and coordinated through our Awards Office. 

Nominating committee ballots will be mailed on November 24th, and are due back at the election firm on December 13th.

Please note: all mailings (language and enclosures), including encoded screeners, must be approved by the awards office in advance, and must state either: "Paid for by [film company/distributor]", or "Not Paid for by SAG."

All mailings are handled through our mailing houses West Coast Mailers (WCM) in Los Angeles and Century Direct Mail Handlers (CDMH) in NY.

Once your FYC materials are approved and scheduled, you may deliver your mailing and payment for shipping and handling to the mailing house for preparation and delivery to the post office.  Please pre-package all envelopes, boxes, and jiffy bags. The mailing house will place a SAG Awards return address label on your mailing in order to maintain confidentiality and attempt to redirect any returned mail due to address changes. WCM and CDMH also do mailing fulfillment (printing, ordering envelopes, stuffing, etc) for an additional fee.  You may want to discuss this option directly with them directly to expedite your mailing.  Payment for postage and handling should be made directly to the mailing house and must be received before your screeners will be mailed.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards charges a separate flat fee of $300 per mailing which will be invoiced for following the show.

The SAG Awards reserves the right to charge an additional fee for approved screening notifications via email.  Please contact the Awards Office for details.

It is the sender’s responsibility to put either on the packaging (or on the screener itself, if mailing a DVD), written notification prohibiting recipients from selling or otherwise transferring possession of the screener in any manner, and the SAG Awards shall have no responsibility for a recipient’s violation of this prohibition.

We encourage you to mail early.  We will attempt to honor your mail dates, but requests for dates will be handled on a first come basis and in coordination with other mailing schedules. 

To schedule a mailing or receive additional  information, please call the SAG Awards office at (323) 549-6707 or email us at awardsinfo@sagawards.org.

SCREENINGS FOR GENERAL SAG MEMBERS (SAG RSVP FILLER GROUP)

The SAG Awards has established an email database of general SAG members (broken down by branch location) interested in attending screenings. Should a Nom Comm screening have seats available, we can email SAG members in that area to fill the screening on short notice.

Thank you for your continued support of the Screen Actors Guild Awards®.