(CNN) — The Screen Actors Guild Awards is getting a rebrand.
Starting next year, the annual awards show which celebrates acting across film and television – and is voted on by actors within the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) – will be named after the actual award, The Actor, according to the organization.
“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,” the Actor Awards website stated, adding that the organization “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.”
The website also said that this evolution has been “a long time coming” and that since “the show’s global audience expanded through N

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