Kristen Bell Is 'Thrilled' to Return as SAG Awards Host After Milestone Year withNobody Wants This

Mar. 15, 2025

Kristin Bell on stage during the show at the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on Sunday, January 21, 2018.Photo:Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty

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Kristen Bellis making her long-awaited return to theScreen Actors Guild Awards.

The SAG Awards announced on Dec. 16 that Bell, 44, will host the 2025 ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 23 at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.

In a press release, Bell said she’s “thrilled to be hosting the SAG Awards again this year,” as she joked, “I’m honored to be asked back and can’t wait to share the evening with my fellow actors, doing what we do best… celebrating ourselves 😊.”

SAG Awards Executive Producer Jon Brockett said in the release that the actress' “wit, warmth and charm makes her the perfect fit for our show — a night celebrating actors and the outstanding performances of the year.

“Plus — everybody wants this,” Brockett said, a nod to Bell’s smash-hit Netflix seriesNobody Wants This, which she starred in alongsideAdam Brody.

Kristen Bell as Joanne, Adam Brody as Noah in ‘Nobody Wants This’.Adam Rose/Netflix

Adam Rose/Netflix

The actresswas the first-ever host of the awards show in 2018, and at the time,the Time’s Up movementwas at its peak, andshe wore black to host the show as a “message of solidarity,“she told PEOPLE at the time.

Her priority in hosting the 2018 show was to emphasize that “there’s no better time to actively be someone else’s support system than right now,” given the reckoning that was happening industry-wide at the time as stars banded together to fight workplace sexual harassment.

“I think it’s important to make these award shows entertaining, and I want to be funny,” she said. “I think we need funny right now, but we also need joy, and we also need forward momentum. This is a time where people that have been abused or marginalized are coming forward. That was very risky, and I want to create an atmosphere that speaks directly to their support system.”

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After Bell hosted in 2018,Megan Mullallyhosted the awards show in 2019, and since then, the show has not had a host.

This year’s nominees will be announced on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, andJane Fondahas been namedthe recipient of this year’s SAG Life Achievement Award— the highest tribute in SAG-AFTRA.

Fonda, 86, said in a statement that she is “deeply honored and humbled” to receive the award as she reflected on her six-decade career.

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Silent House Productions will return to produce the 31st annual ceremony. Jon Brockett, along with Silent House Productions’ Emmy® winners Baz Halpin, Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn, will serve as Executive Producers.

The SAG Awards will stream live on Netflix on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025 at 8 p.m. ET.

source: people.com