Kristen Bell added plenty of Disney magic while hosting the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The actress, 44, reminded fans of her performance in the animated 2013 classic, Frozen, in her opening monologue during the Sunday, February 23, ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles.
“This is a night to honor the actor’s journey which is long, and it can be arduous, and it leads you to the question,” Bell said. “Do you want to be an actor?”
Bell proceeded to sing a unique rendition of one of Frozen‘s most enduring songs, “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” while honoring several actors’ first jobs in their careers like Jason Segel‘s role as the Watermelon Guy in Can’t Hardly Wait and Jodie Foster‘s appearance in a Coppertone advertisement.
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“Do you want to be an actor? You are clearly not alone,” she sang. “Are you ready for your breakout as unnamed man or patient in ICU? Do you want to be an actor?”
In addition to hosting the awards show, Bell is also nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for Nobody Wants This. Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, The Bear’s Liza Colón-Zayas and Ayo Edebiri and Hacks’ Jean Smart rounded out the list of nominees in the category.
While this is Bell’s first SAG Awards nomination, she previously served as the inaugural host of the ceremony in 2018. In December 2024, it was announced that Bell would return for her second hosting stint.
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“Thrilled to be hosting the SAG Awards again this year,” she said in a statement at the time. “I’m honored to be asked back and can’t wait to share the evening with my fellow actors, doing what we do best … celebrating ourselves 
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SAG Awards executive producer Jon Brockett praised Bell in his own statement. “Kristen Bell’s wit, warmth and charm makes her the perfect fit for our show — a night celebrating actors and the outstanding performances of the year,” Brockett said. “Plus — everybody wants this.”
Earlier this month, Bell opened up about her initial inclination to call off awards season after the devastation of the California wildfires.
“It felt very superfluous to have an awards show,” she told People in an interview published Tuesday, February 18. “I felt, ‘We should cancel all of the awards this year and donate all of the money!’”
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However, Bell ultimately had a change of heart after thinking about the impact of awards ceremonies on the community.
“I realized, ‘Wait a minute. If you cancel the awards shows, you are canceling hundreds of hundreds if not thousands of jobs for people in Los Angeles who need them,’” she explained. “Gig workers, musicians, hairstylists, makeup artists, drivers, caterers, tech workers — it’s actually imperative to the economy of rebuilding that we have these awards shows.”
Bell hoped that the SAG Awards would be “a happy event” for those in need of a little entertainment during a tough time.
She added, “Especially having it airing on Netflix and making it seem global, it allows people to have a night of just fun, normal, goofy jokes and see all of the stars of television and film that they love.”
