Dawson and Franz to Announce 2005 SAG Noms

Nominations to be announced January 11, 2005

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Monday, December 6th 2004 at 6:49 PM

It was announced today that Rosario Dawson and Dennis Franz, a three-time SAG Award™ recipient and fourteen-time nominee for NYPD Blue, will join Screen Actors Guild President Melissa Gilbert to announce the nominees for the 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today.

The SAG Awards™ nominations will be revealed at 6:20 a.m. PT on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 in the SilverScreen Theater at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. The nominations announcement will be telecast live on Turner Network Television (TNT) and on E! Entertainment Television’s one-hour SAG Awards™ Nominations special.

The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, the only industry accolades devoted solely to actors honoring actors, will be telecast live on TNT on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. Central, 6 p.m. MT, from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles.

Secret ballots bearing the names of potential nominees for outstanding performances during 2004, in eight television and five motion picture categories including the unique ensemble awards, will be mailed on Friday, December 10, 2004 to the film and television nominating panels, each comprised of 2100 randomly-selected SAG members from across the United States. The ballots will be returned by Friday, January 7, 2005, directly to Integrity Voting Systems, the Awards’ official elections teller.