Submissions for SAG-AFTRA’s American Scene Awards® Are Now Open

Submissions for consideration for SAG-AFTRA’s 2025 biennial American Scene Awards are now open online at https://asa.sagaftra.org/home. Submissions will close on Thursday, July 17, at 12 p.m. PT/ 3 p.m. ET.

The American Scene Awards recognize work in the three main contract categories covered by the union. The honors include the American Scene Award in Entertainment, the American Scene Award in Music & Sound Recordings, and the Belva Davis American Scene Award in Broadcast & News. The awards gala will be presented as part of the celebration event at SAG-AFTRA’s virtual biennial convention taking place October 25-28, 2025.

Past recipients of the SAG-AFTRA American Scene Award include ABC/Warner Bros. TV for Abbott Elementary, Warner Bros. Pictures for Judas and the Black Messiah, Mickey Guyton & The Country Music Association for Love My Hair by Mickey Guyton, featuring Brittney Spencer and Madeline Edwards, as broadcast at the 2021 CMA Awards, Capitol Records Nashville for Black Like Me by Mickey Guyton, PBS SOCAL /KCET for Lost LA: From Little Tokyo To Crenshaw, 20/20 by ABC News and The Courier Journal in Louisville for Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor, Hulu, Columbia/Sony Music, NPR, KPBS and Twentieth Century Fox Television, among many other industry leaders.

SAG-AFTRA’s Diversity Advisory and Honors and Tributes committees oversee the American Scene Awards.

In keeping with SAG-AFTRA’s “Go Green” initiatives, the American Scene Awards submissions are 100% paperless. 

About SAG-AFTRA’s American Scene Awards
The American Scene Awards are bestowed on union productions that most intelligently and progressively employ the talents of people of color, people with disabilities, women, seniors, people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer and other misrepresented or under-represented groups to realistically portray the American Scene. The recipients are producers and content creators whose projects exemplify their commitment to the employment of our diverse union membership in the following three categories: Entertainment, Music & Sound Recordings, and News & Broadcast. The American Scene Awards are given out biennially at SAG-AFTRA’s national convention.

About SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.