Jean Smart is the TV legend who should receive the 2025 SAG life achievement award [Poll Results]
We recently hosted a poll asking which TV legend should be the next person to receive the 2025 SAG life achievement award. The overwhelming top choice was Emmy and SAG winner Jean Smart (“Hacks,” “Designing Women,” “Fargo,” “24”). She received 31.84% of support among the 18 candidates we offered for consideration.
When we offered a similar poll last year, double Oscar winner Barbra Streisand was the top choice, and then she was indeed selected for this honor on the Screen Actors Guild Awards. We created a separate poll earlier this month about film legends with Meryl Streep receiving the most support over Glenn Close, Shirley MacLaine and Jessica Lange.
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The SAG-AFTRA selection committee will likely be announcing their next recipient in the near future. The 2025 ceremony will be live February 23 streaming on Netflix.
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The following living people have already received this award and wouldn’t be chosen again (year referenced is from the ceremony): Joanne Woodward (1986), Robert Redford (1996), Clint Eastwood (2003), Julie Andrews (2007), James Earl Jones (2009), Dick Van Dyke (2013), Rita Moreno (2014), Carol Burnett (2016), Lily Tomlin (2017), Morgan Freeman (2018), Alan Alda (2019), Robert De Niro (2020), Helen Mirren (2022), Sally Field (2023) and Streisand (2024).
All of the choices in our poll were over 60 years old. Here are the full poll results:
Jean Smart (31.84%)
Michael J. Fox (11.17%)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (8.38%)
Candice Bergen (8.38%)
Tyne Daly (6.70%)
Alfre Woodard (5.59%)
Henry Winkler (5.03%)
Danny DeVito (3.91%)
William Daniels (3.91%)
Martin Sheen (3.35%)
Ted Danson (2.79%)
William Shatner (1.68%)
Judd Hirsch (1.68)
John Goodman (1.68%)
Tom Selleck (1.12%)
Bryan Cranston (1.12%)
Debbie Allen (1.12%)
Phylicia Rashad (0.56%)
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