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Screen Actors Guild awards ceremony to feature only female presenters (tr)
Daily Mail ^ | December 13, 2017 | DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER

Posted on 12/13/2017 5:13:53 PM PST by EdnaMode

The 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be presented entirely by women.

The organizers of the SAGs - one of Holloywood's biggest award shows and usually a strong pre-Oscars indicator - made the announcement on Wednesday.

The tribute comes at a time when the entertainment industry has been roiled by a sexual misconduct scandal as well as the struggle for gender equality in front of and behind the camera.

Women will present all 13 of the SAG awards at the January 21 dinner in Los Angeles honoring the best of film and television, in a first for the organization, which represents some 160,000 actors.

'We are acknowledging the year of the woman,' Kathy Connell, the executive producer of the ceremony, told Reuters.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; kathyconnell; metoo; sag; sagawards; sagsowhite; screenactorsguild; virtuesignaling
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To: a fool in paradise

Wouldn’t be surprised to see Laverne Cox present.


41 posted on 12/13/2017 8:25:56 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Gonna exploit them women and them women won’t think anything of it.....ironic.


42 posted on 12/14/2017 3:58:53 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: All

Hahahahahaa....man, the Left.....


43 posted on 12/14/2017 5:26:00 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: EdnaMode

It sounds patronizing. I can’t imagine any conservative actresses (all 3 of them?) attending; they’d be insulted.


44 posted on 12/14/2017 1:21:35 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MoochPooch

Yeah I agree. Not sure why anyone would be on board with this.


45 posted on 12/14/2017 1:31:38 PM PST by EdnaMode
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