The Screen Actor's Guild is the union for actors. If you don't have a SAG card in Hollywood, you don't work. These awards are unique, insofar as they honor strictly performers, and because all 96,000 members of the actors' union get to vote on who will take home the awards.

The 19th annual show will be held on Sunday, January 27, 2013, at the Shrine Auditorium.

(Nominees for the 2013 awards were announced on December 12, 2012.)

Last year, presenters included George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Bacon, Ben Kingsley, Glenn Close,  Viola Davis, Owen Wilson, Tina Fey, Bryan Cranston and Dick Van Dyke.

In 2011, presenters included Natalie Portman, Justin Timberlake, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Amy Adams, Jeff Bridges, Helena Bonham Carter, Jon Hamm, Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Bateman, Hilary Swank, Jesse Eisenberg, Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Sofia Vergara, Mila Kunis, Scott Bakula, Taye Diggs, Tina Fey, Cory Monteith, Amy Poehler, Eva Longoria, Dennis Haysbert, Geoffrey Rush,Susan Sarandon and Betty White.

(Click here for a list of the 2011 nominees & winners.)

Presenters in 2010 included Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Hudson, Jane Lynch, Michelle Monaghan, Chris O'Donnell, Anna Paquin, Ray Romano, Christina Applegate, Mo’Nique and Justin Timberlake.

SAG is a relative newcomer to the award show scene, but the annual show once represented a fine opportunity for first-class star-gazing in L.A.

While tickets to the awards show inside the Shrine aren't available to the general public (just to SAG members), tickets to the fan bleachers outside, on the red carpet, were previously distributed for free by Audiences Unlimited. (You would send them your mailing address, and they would send your tickets in the mail.)

Unfortunately, that situation has changed. There are still bleachers outside for fans, but now it will cost you - and you only have a very small window of opportunity to bid on them.

Typically, the stars begin arriving at the Shrine at around 3 p.m.

Who might you see?

Presenters in 2010 included: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Justin Timberlake, Kyra Sedgwick, Ray Romano, Felicity Huffman Anna Paquin, Jane Lynch, Michelle Monaghan & Chris O’Donnell.

Presenters in 2009 included Anthony Hopkins, Katie Holmes, Amy Adams, Ralph Fiennes, Claire Danes, Eric McCormack, Susan Sarandon, William Shatner, Marisa Tomei, Josh Brolin, Christina Applegate, Ernest Borgnine, Amy Poehler, Kyra Sedgwick and Forest Whitaker.