Meryl Streep is the movie legend who should receive the 2025 SAG life achievement award [Poll Results]
Which movie legend should be the next person to receive the 2025 SAG life achievement award? We recently offered a poll, which was won by three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep with 21.33% of support. She is just ahead of Glenn Close at 15.17%, Shirley MacLaine at 13.27% and Jessica Lange at 10.43%.
The SAG-AFTRA selection committee will likely be announcing their next recipient in the near future. We will offer a separate poll coming up soon about possible TV stars who might receive this award. The 2025 Screen Actors Guild 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 Barbra Streisand (2024).
All of these choices below are over 65 years old, which seems to be a requirement for the selection committee in prior years. We did not include the very deserving Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson and Gena Rowlands in the poll since they are retired and haven’t been making any public appearances.
Here are the complete results:
Meryl Streep (21.33%)
Glenn Close (15.17%)
Shirley MacLaine (13.27%)
Jessica Lange (10.43%)
Jane Fonda (9.48%)
Anthony Hopkins (7.58%)
Harrison Ford (4.27%)
Al Pacino (3.32%)
Tom Hanks (3.32%)
Denzel Washington (2.37%)
Jeff Bridges (1.90%)
Annette Bening (1.90%)
Samuel L. Jackson (1.42%)
Dustin Hoffman (1.42%)
Diane Keaton (0.95%)
Warren Beatty (0.95%)
Bill Murray (0.47%)
Robert Duvall (0.47%)
Steve Martin (0.00%)
Billy Crystal (0.00%)
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