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Template may mean:

• a stencil, pattern or overlay used in graphic arts (drawing, painting, etc.) and sewing to replicate letters, shapes or designs
• a pre-developed page layout in electronic or paper media used to make new pages with a similar design, pattern, or style
• Form letter, a predefined letter which retains its primary intent when individually customised with variable data or text.

Computer science and information technology[link]

• Template (file format), a standardized non-executable file type used by computer software as a pre-formatted example on which to base other files, especially documents
• Template (C++), a tool for generic programming especially in the C++ language
• Template metaprogramming, a programming technique used by a compiler to generate temporary source code
• Template method, an object-oriented design pattern
• Template processor, a system that combines a template with data to produce an output.
• Template (word processing), a standard document containing layout and styles used to configure word processing software
• Style sheet (web development) or master page on which you can globally edit and format graphic elements and text common to each page of a document
• Web template or web template system, a master page used to produce web pages
• A main document from which mail merge documents are created

Manufacturing[link]

• Mechanical template, used to cut and shape a product, such as:
  • a die (manufacturing)
  • a mold

Molecular genetics[link]

• a strand of DNA which sets the genetic sequence of new strands
• a strand of RNA which translates genes into proteins

Miscellaneous[link]

• Template (racing), a device used in car racing to ensure that the body of the race vehicle adheres to specifications

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Screen Actors Guild Award
The Actor Statuette
Awarded for	Excellence in film and television by members of the Screen Actors Guild
Presented by	Screen Actors Guild
Country	United States
First awarded	1995
Official website	http://www.sagawards.org/

A Screen Actors Guild Award (also known as a SAG Award) is an accolade given by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) to recognize outstanding performances by its members. The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called "The Actor".^[1] It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, cast in solid bronze, and produced by the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, California.^[2]

SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. Nominations for the awards come from 4200 randomly selected members of the union, with the full membership (120,000 as of 2007) available to vote for the winners. The awards have been televised for the past several years on TNT, but now also airs on TBS.

The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25, 1995 from Stage 12, Universal Studios. The second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center.^[3] Bob Hope was given the first award.

List of nominees and winners[link]

• For the year 2011, held in 2012 - 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2010, held in 2011 – 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2009, held in 2010 – 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2008, held in 2009 – 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2007, held in 2008 – 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2006, held in 2007 – 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2005, held in 2006 – 12th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2004, held in 2005 – 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2003, held in 2004 – 10th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2002, held in 2003 – 9th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2001, held in 2002 – 8th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 2000, held in 2001 – 7th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 1999, held in 2000 – 6th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 1998, held in 1999 – 5th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 1997, held in 1998 – 4th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 1996, held in 1997 – 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 1995, held in 1996 – 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards
• For the year 1994, held in 1995 – 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards

Awards[link]

Film awards[link]

• Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
• Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Television awards[link]

• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
• Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
• Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
• Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

Life Achievement Awards[link]

• Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

Superlatives[link]

Most wins[link]

(minimum of 2 awards)

These are the artists and shows that have received the most awards over the years, including all awards up to 2012.

• Julianna Margulies has won more awards than any other artist, with eight. Margulies has two for Outstanding Female Television Actress-Drama for ER, two for Outstanding Female TV Actress - Drama for The Good Wife and four for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series also for ER.
• Alec Baldwin is notable for winning 'Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor - Comedy' for 30 Rock six years in a row from 2007 to 2012. With a Ensemble Award for the show as well this brings his total wins to seven.
• Allison Janney has won six SAG Awards: two for Outstanding Female in a Drama Series for The West Wing, two for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series also for The West Wing, and two for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture for American Beauty and The Help.
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, and Edie Falco all have won five SAG Awards. Louis-Dreyfus has won two for Outstanding Female in a Comedy Series for Seinfeld and three for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series also for Seinfeld. Gandolfini won three awards for Outstanding Male in a Drama Series for The Sopranos, and two for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series, also for The Sopranos. Edie Falco won three awards for Outstanding Female in a Drama Series for The Sopranos and two for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series, also for The Sopranos.
• Megan Mullally and Tina Fey have won the Outstanding Female in a Comedy Series award more times than any other actress, with three wins apiece.
• James Gandolfini has won the Outstanding Male in a Drama Series three times, while Edie Falco has won the Outstanding Female in a Drama Series three times.
• Martin Sheen has won 4 for his work on The West Wing; two for Outstanding Male Television Actor in a Drama and another two along with the cast of The West Wing for Best Ensemble.
• Steve Buscemi, Anthony Edwards, Dennis Franz, Hugh Laurie, Martin Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland have all won the Outstanding Male Television Actor-Drama Award twice.
• John Lithgow and Tony Shalhoub have both won the Outstanding Male Television Actor-Comedy Award twice.
• ER has won the Outstanding Ensemble-Drama Award 4 times.
• The comedy Seinfeld has won the Outstanding Ensemble-Comedy Award 3 times
• Helen Mirren, Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones have won 3 SAG Film Awards (Zellweger: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role 2004 - Cold Mountain, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role 2003 - Chicago and Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture 2003 - Chicago).
• Jerry Orbach posthumously won a SAG Award for his role in Law & Order in 2005.
• David Hyde Pierce, with 19 nominations, has more than any other performer. He himself has won twice (Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series in 1996, and Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2000, for his role as Niles Crane in the comedy Frasier.
• Rainn Wilson and Mark Moses are the only people to win for both Ensemble in a Comedy Series (Wilson for The Office in 2007 and 2008, Moses for Desperate Housewives in 2005 and 2006) and Ensemble in a Drama Series (Wilson for Six Feet Under in 2003, Moses for Mad Men in 2009).

Most nominations[link]

(Minimum of 10 nominations)

Per film[link]

Most wins[link]

(minimum of 2 awards)

Most nominations[link]

(minimum of 3 nominations)

References[link]

External links[link]

• SAG Awards official site

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The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union representing over 105,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to merge with AFTRA, the new union will be called SAG-AFTRA. The new union will have more than 150,000 members.^[1]

According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; collect compensation for exploitation of recorded performances by its members, and provide protection against unauthorized use of those performances; and preserve and expand work opportunities for its members.^[2]

The Guild was founded in 1933 in an effort to eliminate exploitation of actors in Hollywood who were being forced into oppressive multi-year contracts with the major movie studios that did not include restrictions on work hours or minimum rest periods, and often had clauses that automatically renewed at the studios' discretion. These contracts were notorious for allowing the studios to dictate the public and private lives of the performers who signed them, and most did not have provisions to allow the performer to end the deal.^{[citation needed] [3]}

The Screen Actors Guild is associated with the Associated Actors and Artistes of America (AAAA), which is the primary association of performer's unions in the United States. The AAAA is affiliated with the AFL-CIO. SAG claims exclusive jurisdiction over motion picture performances, and shares jurisdiction of radio, television, Internet, and other new media with its sister union AFTRA, with which it shares 44,000 dual members.^[4] Internationally, the SAG is affiliated with the International Federation of Actors.

In addition to its main offices in Hollywood, SAG also maintains local branches in several major US cities, including: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

Since 1995, the guild has annually awarded the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which are considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards.