Talk:Screen Actors Guild

I would like to see a section analysing the benefits to producers and the detriments to artists.

By fixing the price a producer must pay for an actor, he may not hire as many actors for budget reasons. More actors would get work, but at this lower price.

Conversely, producers get a benefit from the union, because the union has culled the less talented or committed actors from the mass of actors who might want to work for that producer. The producer can choose from union actors, who as a rule are far better actors than the non-union folks.

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Should there be a page, or at least a section in this article, of current and past Presidents of the Screen Actors Guild? I was trying to find one online but so far havent come up with anything. Anyone? -R. fiend 18:52, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

does anyone know what format to use when you have an idea for a television show?

How about a small reference to the Film Actors Guild, referenced in [[Team America: World Police]]

I was wondering if the voting in SAG is the same as in the oscars and/or Golden Globes?

Name rules

Say something about the rules for screen names. --Error 03:34, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Non-Union

What does it mean if a production is "non-union"? It is not endorsed by SAG? Features non-SAG actors? What? Mucket 21:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Non-Union productions are films that have not signed the standard SAG agreement. A union film signs the SAG agreement, which grants the union a whole bunch of guarantees and creates liens against the production to ensure that the SAG rules are followed. Brian1975 01:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Mucket 03:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Suggestions

• Move SAG Awards to a separate article
• Check article for lines that are lifted verbatim off the sag.org website, I believe there are many such lines, as they read with a familiar ring
• Add information about the significance of SAG membership to actors-- how necessary it is, and the popular (and real) perception of how difficult it is to obtain a SAG card. SAG 'cards' are not even mentioned in the article. Central and relevant information about what SAG is and what its overall significance to industry and acting community seems to be missing whereas more peripheral information such as its past history and numbers on dues/salary is highlighted instead Santaduck 02:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• Add information on the strike of the summer of 1980, mentioned at 1980 in television. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:21, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't presently see any section at all about the SAG awards. Have I overlooked it? I've started many articles, but the ins and outs of awards-list articles are a bit out of my depth. Nonetheless, it would be good to have such an article, as watching last night's awards is what brought me to the SAG article in the first place. Lawikitejana 04:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

IATSE vs. SAG

On every movie I've seen that was a union project, I have seen the IATSE's logo (This picture made under the jurisdiciton of...). Can anybody tell me if these two are separate organizations, or if the SAG is involved when the IATSE's logo is shown? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brittany Ka (talk • contribs) 22:37, 8 May 2007 (UTC).

My understanding is that the IATSE is a large "parent" union to other smaller unions that organize "other" miscellaneous employees of theater and film, outside of actors, directors, and producers. It spans the US and Canada, and includes unions for production coordinators, scene artists, studio mechanics, and even theater ticket agents, along with many others. SAG has nothing to do with IATSE, but IATSE is rather another union whose members commonly work on most film and theater productions.

Equazcion • argue/improves • 22:35, 10/14/2007

Predicted strike of 2008

This links to Hollywood film strike (2008), which is a redirect to the ongoing writers' guild strike. Should this section be rewritten to describe the current strike? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poobslag (talk • contribs) 22:29, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Criticism section needed

A criticism section is needed. It certainly reads like SAG member enthusiasts wrote it (which is likely true).

A point of interest the article should address is whether it's true that a movie studio (or production company, or any other company) who signs the SAG contract is contractually forbidden from hiring non-SAG actors.

Another interesting issue the article should contain is how some nonunion shops hire SAG artists under pseudonyms so the nonunion shop doesn't have to sign the SAG contract. Also of interest would be how a nonunion shop will work with a paymaster company or even create a shell company subsidiary that signs the SAG contract, so the nonunion shop doesn't have to (and get locked into SAG artists, as I understand). Tempshill (talk) 04:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Blacklist period; and more history needed

The blacklist section as written is strongly POV and devotes too great a proportion of the article to one matter 60 years in the past. Should be condensed and rendered more neutral. The article needs more discussion of such developments as residul rights, changes wrought by the end of the studio system, etc. 12.214.62.215 (talk) 22:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)