The Best Red-Carpet Fashion At The 2026 Actor Awards

The penultimate major stop on the awards-season circuit is the SAG Awards the Actor Awards. The new name reflects the way the ceremony has worked since its inception: Actors are nominated and awarded by their fellow peers in the Screen Actors Guild. It’s considered the mark of an actor who might go on to win an Oscar in a few weeks’ time, and it’s being hosted by funny girl Kristen Bell for the third time.

For the first time, there is also a dress code: “Reimagining Hollywood Glamour from the '20s and '30s.” A lot of our favorites have already been doing this on carpets this year (Selena Gomez, Ayo Edebiri), wearing column gowns, bias-cut silks, and leaning into coiffed hair and traditional silver-screen makeup. Just like the Met Gala’s theme, interpretation is the name of the game. We expect some people to go traditional — we’re thinking of gamine nominees like Emma Stone, Elle Fanning, and Jessie Buckley — and others to go a bit left of center. We can surely rely on Timothée Chalamet, Odessa A’zion, and Teyana Taylor to make it their own in ways we can only dream of. This is also the last tentpole event for stars to secure a firm spot on our awards-season power ranking. Keep this tab open as the nominees and presenters arrive for the newly named, newly dress-coded Actor Awards.