
SAG Awards are now called Actor Awards? Even host Kristen Bell forgets
USA TODAY
Kristen Bell is hosting the Actor Awards after it changed its name from the SAG Awards. See how she's preparing for the Sunday awards on Netflix.
Kristen Bell has been tripping up over the name of this weekend's glam awards show, which is a problem since the "Frozen" star is the host.
Bell, 45, has hosted the Screen Actors Guild Awards twice, including last year's ceremony. Since then, the SAG-AFTRA union representing Hollywood actors officially changed the name of their annual celebration to the Actor Awards.
So on her third run as host but first under the show's new name, Bell says it's a group effort to nail the change at the 32nd annual awards (March 1 on Netflix, 8 ET/PT).
"Renaming it is a big thing to apply to the old processor," says Bell. "There's been a lot of slip-ups. But we politely correct each other when I say the SAG Awards. Nope, it's now called the Actor Awards."
Bell, a proud SAG-AFTRA member for more than two decades, says she had nothing to do with the name change. "That's not my department, and above my pay grade," she says.













