How to Watch the 2025 SAG Awards

Jane Fonda pulled nary punches successful her 2025 SAG Life Achievement Award acceptance speech.

And she besides did a small improv, proving that she's the eventual icon.

On a nighttime erstwhile the national pridefulness successful the country is ever strong, Fonda—vibrant AF astatine 87—was extolling the value of SAG-AFTRA erstwhile the evening's announcer each of a abrupt chopped in, saying, "We return, present astatine the 31st..."

A method trouble that could person rattled a little seasoned performer, but Fonda—who arsenic presenter Julia Louis-Dreyfus noted has been astatine this crippled for 65 years—survived and thrived.

"I tin conjure up voices!" the actress, activistic and workout icon quipped. After which she had to clasp for each the applause. (See each the 2025 SAG Award winners.)

It was also, incidentally, the 2nd dependable mishap of the night, Fonda remarking erstwhile she got immoderate microphone feedback arsenic she took the stage, "What astir the dependable system? I'm gonna talk loud!"

But the daughter of surface fable Henry Fonda did not disappoint successful immoderate way, utilizing the level to remark connected being a "late bloomer" and to conscionable the moment, her past of governmental activism and societal justness enactment beforehand and halfway arsenic she reminded her chap actors, "What we make is empathy. Our occupation is to recognize different quality being truthful profoundly that we tin interaction their souls." 

"This means the satellite to me!" she began her speech. "Thank you, SAG-AFTRA., convey you. And your enthusiasm makes this look little similar a precocious twilight of my life, and much similar a 'go girl, footwear ass.'"

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"Which is good," she continued, "because I’m not done. You know, I person had a truly weird career. Totally not—as my agents determination are that array volition attest to—totally unstrategic. I retired for 15 years, past I came backmost astatine 65, which is not usual. And past I made 1 of my astir palmy movies successful my 80s and astir apt successful my 90s I’ll beryllium doing my ain stunts successful an enactment movie."

After singing the praises of SAG-AFTRA and deftly handling the audio malfunction, she returned to the taxable of empathy, because, she said, "a full batch of radical are going to beryllium truly wounded by what is happening, what is coming our way. And adjacent if they’re of a antithetic governmental persuasion, we person to telephone upon our empathy and not judge, but perceive from our hearts and invited them to our tent—and we are going to request a large structure to defy successfully what’s coming astatine us."

She called this "our documentary moment," and "it's not a rehearsal."

In uncovering retired she'd beryllium this year's recipient, Fonda said that, aft moving successful the manufacture for astir her full life, "there's nary grant similar the 1 bestowed by you connected your peers."

"SAG-AFTRA works tirelessly to support the moving histrion and to guarantee that national members are being treated equitably successful each areas," she noted, "and I americium arrogant to beryllium a subordinate arsenic we proceed to enactment to support generations of performers to come."

Recent recipients of the grant see Barbra Streisand, Sally Field, Helen Mirren and Robert De Niro. Fonda's beloved person and 9 to 5 costar Lily Tomlin received the grant successful 2016.

See the afloat database of winners from the 2025 SAG Awards: