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PUTTING IT TOGETHER winning individuals who return year ater year, headed by executive producer and Emmy and DGA Award-winning director Jeremy Freeman/ �� Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc. Chair JoBeth Williams. ���hey have creative approval over the show���s content and have the always-painful task of selecting which members are included in the on-air In Memoriam tribute.��� ���he committee���s involvement is crucial,��� Connell adds, ���because each one of them is a working actor. As such, they ofer unique perspectives in the development of the show and sensitivity to the union���s point of view.��� Breathing life into the annual ceremony alongside Connell and the committee is a team of dedicated, experienced and award43 SAG-AFTRA | Special Issue 2013 | SAGAFTRA.org Executive Producer and Director Jeff Margolis watches the monitors during the 18th Annual SAG Awards ceremony. Jef Margolis, who has shaped hundreds of the entertainment industry���s biggest events, including directing eight Academy Awards. he SAG Awards engaged his Jef Margolis Productions in 1998. He has produced the show since the ith awards and added directing duties to his plate in 2006. According to Margolis, while a few changes were made to the ceremony the year he irst took the reins, the format since that time hasn���t been altered all that much. ���It���s two hours, start to inish,��� he says. ���here are only 13 awards and three special tributes consisting of Life Achievement, In Memoriam and a union tribute package that changes from year to year. We���ve found something that really works.��� In its natural state, the Shrine Exposition Center looks a lot more like an old roller rink than it does an elegant ballroom, so it���s up to the Emmy-winning production design team of John Shafner and Joe Stewart to create some magic. he process begins on a small scale. ���John and Joe come up with three diferent models of the room to present to the SAG Awards Committee and the producing team,��� says Emmy-winning Lighting Designer Jef Engel, a 42-year industry veteran. ���Ater they decide which look they will go with, John, Joe and I start collaborating on the details of the room.��� According to Stewart, it���s