Only Female Presenters Featured at Upcoming Hollywood Awards Ceremony

The idea sprung from the Women’s March in January.

Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that the upcoming 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will feature only female presenters for all categories instead of the typical male/female pairing.

Women, and only women, will present across all 13 categories, including the stunt categories that aren’t televised. In addition, the video opening to the SAG Awards, called “Actors Stories,” won’t feature any male actors. The executive producer of the show, Kathy Connell, said the idea for all-female presenters was birthed from a conversation after attending the Women’s March with her daughter. However, Connell assured this has nothing to do with agenda:

“We’re an awards show. We’re not trying to proselytize to anyone — the idea was to salute our women. So many of our women have been very, very brave, as have other women in other industries this year and we thought it was an opportunity to salute our women because it’s not just about one issue. Our women are very famous and yet they face the issues that women across this country do, which is they don’t have equality in income. They don’t have creative equality. And they have the same kind of safety issues that other women have been facing. We just thought we wanted to acknowledge as many wonderful women on our stage this year as we could, while we’re celebrating the best performances by women and men of the year.”

Actress Kristen Bell will be the host for the ceremony, a first for the SAG Awards. It will air in late January on TBS and TNT. And best of all, it will be agenda-free as promised. (Yeah, right.)

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