The Screen Actors Guild Awards are getting a new name, with the SAG-AFTRA union announcing today the annual awards show will now be known as The Actor Awards.

"Since the show started over 30 years ago, our iconic statuette has always been called The Actor, and simply evolving the show's name to align with the award itself made obvious sense,'' according to the guild's website. "We wanted to provide clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about for our domestic and global audiences -- we honor actors in film and television. Laser-focusing the name on those two things became the clearest and most straightforward path for this new chapter of the show.''

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The official name of the show is now "The Actor Awards pr

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