Seth Rogen’s Emotional SAG Awards Tribute to Catherine O’Hara Is Going Viral
The 2026 Screen Actors Guild Awards gathered A-listers across film and television to celebrate the past year on screen this weekend. And from the ceremony's big winners to the star-studded SAGs red carpet, the Awards continue to make headlines.
It was a touching moment during the 32nd annual ceremony that went particularly viral, as Catherine O'Hara posthumously won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series.
The legendary actress, famed for her roles in Beetlejuice, Schitt's Creek and Home Alone, was confirmed to have died in January, aged 71.
And following her posthumous SAG Awards win for her role in The Studio, the show's creator Seth Rogen paid an emotional tribute to the late comedic star.
"I was asked to assume the very sad honour of accepting this award on O’Hara’s behalf," Rogen announced as the audience gave a standing ovation. "I know she would have been honoured to receive this award from her fellow performers, who I know she respected so much, she was such big fans of all of yours.
"I, obviously, you know, have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her, working with her, and something that I’ve just been marvelling at over the last few weeks was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious, while never, ever minimising her own talents - and her own ability to contribute to the work we were doing. She knew she could destroy and she wanted to destroy every day we were on set."
“I haven’t said this to the other actors because I didn’t want them to get ideas," he continued. "But pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan an email that always was pretty similar: ‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following.’ And then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene she was in. And literally 100% of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. And she really showed that you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other in any way, shape, or form."
"So I guess, I’ll just leave you with this," Rogen concluded. "If you have people in your lives that don't know or work, if there are kids in your lives, or just people who are out of touch, or stupid or something, just show them O’Hara, dancing to Harry Belafonte in Beetlejuice, show them O’Hara hurting her knee in Best in Show, doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around, and tell the people as they’re laughing, that that’s Catherine O’Hara, and we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she’s so [generously] shared her talents with us. Thank you."
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