Ned Stark's cast was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
 At a 1997 ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Blacklist, the Guild's president made this statement:Only our sister union, Actors Equity Association, had the courage to stand behind its members and help them continue their creative lives in the theater
 In rare circumstances, due to the uniqueness of a role, or constraints on the numbers of available SAG actors or last-minute cancellations, those minimums were unable to be met

