2011 SAG Awards Rundown

The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) are set to air Sunday January 30 2011 at 8 pm EST. They are presented live from the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles California. The show will be simulcast on TNT and TBS. Check with your local cable station-viewing guide for channel listings.

*The Screen Actors Guild was established in 1933 to help working actors fight for their rights during the labor movement and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO . It is the only organization to support working actors associated with labor unions and currently supports more than 125,000 actors with 20 branch offices.

*The first televised SAG Awards ceremony took place in 1995 when NBC hosted the Inaugural SAG Awards on February 25 of that year.

*The Inaugural SAG Awards in 1995 was also the first time The Actor ®™ statuette was presented and the first time that regular actors in a comedy and drama television series were honored.

*The recipient of the first televised Lifetime Achievement Award was George Burns. The 2010 recipient is Ernest Borgnine and he will be presented with the award at the January 30 2011 ceremony.

*The Screen Actors Guild has given the Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest award honor a person can receive, to recipients since 1962. The first Lifetime Achievement award presented by SAG honored Eddie Cantor in this year.

*Other notable Lifetime Achievement Award winners include Bob Hope in 1965, Charles Heston in 1971, Frank Sinatra in 1972, Katherine Hepburn in 1979, Audrey Hepburn in 1992, Elizabeth Taylor in 1997, Clint Eastwood in 2002, Julie Andrews in 2006 and Betty White in 2009.

*While Lifetime Achievement Award honors only one person each year, SAG presented two actors with the award twice. In 1985, both Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward received the award and in 2000, both Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee received the award.

*SAG "Outstanding Performance" awards are given in various categories including Male Actor and Female Actor in a Leading Role and Supporting Role overall; Male and Female Actor for both Leading and Supporting Roles in a Comedy, and Drama Series and Male and Female Actor in a Television or Miniseries.

*SAG Awards are presented to entire casts and include Outstanding Performance Ensemble in a Comedy and Drama Series, and Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series and Movie.

* "The Fighter" is nominated for four awards, the most nominations in the Theatrical Motion Pictures category.

* "Modern Family" is nominated for four awards, the most for the Prime Time Television Program category.

*In 2011, of the 11 Theatrical Motion Picture studios nominated for awards, Paramount Pictures holds six nominations and of the 13 Prime Time Networks nominated for awards, HBO holds 13.

* Actors having more than 10 nominations in their lifetime include Edie Falco with 15, Alec Baldwin with 14, Julianna Margulies with 14, Michael C. Hall with 13, and Steve Carell with 11.

*Mariska Hargitay has been nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series five times for her performance as Olivia Benson on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; however, she has yet to win any SAG award. She is nominated again this year for the same role and award.