SAG Awards Digital FYC Accessibility
SAG-AFTRA continues its commitment to making both SAG Awards® For Your Consideration (FYC) screeners and the 31st Annual SAG Awards broadcast on Netflix as accessible as possible to everyone.
The union requires studios to provide accessible FYC digital screeners during the final phase of voting with either closed captioning (CC) or subtitles for those who are deaf and hard of hearing (SDH), and audio description (AD) for those who are blind and have low vision, where you can hear the action happening on the screen between the dialogue.
The Netflix live broadcast of the 31st annual ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 23, will also feature closed captioning and live audio description.
Both of these powerful tools are designed to help make films, television, and streaming shows more accessible to our members and the wider public with disabilities.
WHAT IS CLOSED CAPTIONING?
Closed captioning is a real-time transcript of what is being said onscreen for those who are deaf and hard of hearing. SAG-AFTRA has required that SAG Awards FYC digital screeners feature closed captioning since the 24th Annual SAG Awards.
WHAT IS AUDIO DESCRIPTION?
Audio description is off-camera narration that describes the onscreen action happening between the dialogue, as well as describes character facial expressions and other visual details to enhance the viewing experience for those people on the blindness spectrum. SAG-AFTRA has required that SAG Awards FYC digital screeners feature audio descriptions since the 28th Annual SAG Awards.
HOW TO ACCESS THESE FEATURES
Please find instructions below on accessing Audio Description settings on digital screener platforms and FYC sites hosting SAG Awards-nominated motion pictures and TV programs.
MOTION PICTURES
Actors FYC
1. During playback, locate the Audio Tracks button with a headphone icon in the bottom right corner.
2. Select the track labeled "ENGLISH AUDIO DESCRIPTION".
Click Here to Access Actors FYC
(Titles Available: A Complete Unknown, A Real Pain, Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Fall Guy, Gladiator II, The Last Showgirl, The Piano Lesson, Sing Sing, The Substance, and Wicked)
TV PROGRAMS
Apple TV+ Screeners
1. During playback, locate the speaker logo in the bottom right corner (to the left of the CC logo).
2. Select "English [Descriptive]"
Click Here to Access Apple TV+ Screeners
(Titles Available: Disclaimer, Shrinking, and Slow Horses)
Consider Amazon
1. During playback, locate the speaker logo in the bottom right corner (to the left of the CC logo).
2. Select "English [Descriptive]"
Click Here to Access Consider Amazon
(Titles Available: The Boys and Fallout)
Debut (The Walt Disney Studios)
1. During playback, locate the Languages button in the bottom right corner.
2. Click the dropdown arrow next to Audio Track
2. Select "English (describes-video)"
(Titles Available: Abbott Elementary, Only Murders in the Building, Shōgun, and Under the Bridge)
HBO/Max FYC
1. During playback, locate the speaker logo in the bottom right corner (to the left of the CC logo).
2. Select "English [Descriptive]"
Click Here to Access HBO Max FYC
(Titles Available: The Great Lillian Hall, Hacks, House of the Dragon, The Penguin, and True Detective: Night Country)
Netflix
1. During playback, locate the speaker logo in the bottom right corner (to the left of the CC logo).
2. Select "English [Descriptive]"
(Titles Available: A Man on the Inside, Baby Reindeer, Bridgerton, The Diplomat, Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story, Nobody Wants This, and Ripley)
Peacock FYC
1. During playback, locate the Audio Tracks button with a headphone icon in the bottom right corner.
2. Select the track labeled "english ad"
Click Here to Access Actors FYC
(Title Available: The Day of the Jackal)
