The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2011, were presented on January 29, 2012, at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, for the sixteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast simultaneously by TNT and TBS.
The nominees were announced on December 14, 2011, by actresses Regina King and Judy Greer at Los Angeles' Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Meryl Streep introduced the 'In Memoriam' segment to pay tribute to the actors who have died in 2011: