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22 SAG-AFTRA | Summer 2020 | sagaftra.org IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE 27 TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS ® 2020 Monday, Sept. 21 Submissions open at sagawards.org/submissions. Friday, Nov. 20 Submissions close at 5 p.m. PT. 2021 Monday, Jan. 11 Nominations voting opens. MONDAY, FEB. 1 Nominations voting closes at noon PT. Deadline for paying November 2020 dues and/or changing address with SAG-AFTRA to be eligible for final balloting. Thursday, Feb. 4 27th SAG Awards nominations announced. Wednesday, Feb. 10 Final voting opens. Friday, Feb. 26 Final day to request paper final ballots in lieu of online voting. Wednesday, March 10 Final voting closes at noon PT. Sunday, March 14 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ® . Visit sagawards.org for more information. Court Deals Blow to Age Discrimination Law O n June 19, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a disappointing decision in SAG-AFTRA's fight against age discrimination in the entertainment industry. The court affirmed a trial court's earlier decision preventing enforcement of California Assembly Bill 1687 as unconstitutional. The bill requires subscription-based entertainment casting and hiring databases such as IMDbPro to remove paid subscribers' date-of-birth information from its websites, including IMDb.com, upon request. The State of California and SAG-AFTRA, as the original sponsor of the legislation, had appealed the trial court's ruling, arguing that the bill merely regulated a contractual relationship between IMDbPro and its subscribers and was not the kind of speech the First Amendment affords its greatest protections. "The Court's conclusion that this law wouldn't have a major impact on age discrimination in the entertainment industry is simply ill-informed. It highlights why it was so wrong for the trial court judge to deny us the opportunity to discover and present evidence that we know would have conclusively proved that point," said SAG-AFTRA Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. Screen Actors Guild Awards ® Gets New Date: March 14, 2021 I t has been a year of the unexpected, and we've all had to make some adjustments. That's true of the Screen Actors Guild Awards ® , as well, which will be moving its 27th annual ceremony. The show is now scheduled to take place Sunday, March 14, 2021. With this new show date, the SAG Awards extended its eligibility period by two months. Motion pictures, primetime television, cable, and new media programs first exhibited or broadcast during the period of Jan. 1, 2020, to Feb. 28, 2021, may qualify. Submissions for nomination consideration open Sept. 21 and close Nov. 20. With the actor's permission, producers, studios/networks, agents, managers or publicists may submit a performance for consideration in a category of the actor's choosing. Actors may also submit their own performances. All submissions must be entered online at sagawards.org/submissions. Nominations for the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be announced on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Upcoming key deadlines and events leading to the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards can be found on the schedule to the right. For more information about the SAG Awards, visit sagawards.org/about. DIMITRIOS K AMBOURIS / WIREIMAGE