The 2025 SAG Awards have named their winner for outstanding male actor in a comedy series!

On Sunday, Feb. 23, Martin Short won the award for his performance as Oliver Putnam in Only Murders in the Building at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. This year marked Short's third individual SAG Award nod for Only Murders, and first win.

Short, 74, could not make the ceremony, leading Joey King and Jack Quaid to accept the award on his behalf. While they didn't specify why he was absent, his Only Murders costar Steve Martin recently revealed that Short contracted COVID while attending SNL50: The Anniversary Special.

Following his win, Short's rep confirmed to PEOPLE that was unable to attend the ceremony due to COVID. In a statement to PEOPLE, the actor added of his win: "The honor of being in Only Murders in the Building is the most spectacular compliment anyone could be given. The honor of being awarded by your peers is even greater.  Thank you so so much."

Only Murders in the Building stars Short as Oliver Putnam, one of the three main crime-solvers-turned-podcasters in the show (alongside Martin, 79, and Selena Gomez).

Co-creator John Hoffman opened up about Short’s onscreen chemistry with costar Meryl Streep, who plays Loretta Durkin, in an October 2024 interview with Decider. 

Hoffman said that it was "unbelievable" watching Streep, 75, and Short build their rapport onscreen. He recalled, “You know, it is one of the most unexpected turns but I remember thinking, like ‘God.' As I got to know Meryl, as I’ve known Marty and as I watched the two of them work together in season 3, I just — it was unbelievable.”

"We were laughing our heads off and they just delighted in each other on screen, off screen in every way,” he added.

The competition in the category was fierce, as other nominees included Adam Brody for Nobody Wants This, Ted Danson for A Man on the Inside, Harrison Ford for Shrinking and Jeremy Allen White for The Bear.

Brody, 45, stars opposite Kristen Bell in the hit Netflix comedy Nobody Wants This. The show chronicles a budding romance between newly single rabbi Noah (Brody) and sex podcaster Joanne (Bell, 44), who are faced with a slew of naysayers who claim their relationship won't work.

“I knew that we had something that worked, but I had no idea the sort of wide swath of people that would enjoy it. That has been an absolute pleasant surprise,” Brody previously told PEOPLE of his onscreen chemistry with Bell. "I’ve been doing this a long time, and it doesn’t happen often, whoever you are. So it’s very gratifying and exciting."

The actor had no complaints when it comes to the internet referring to him as “the Hot Rabbi,” adding, “That’s mostly happening elsewhere online, so it’s like it’s happening to another person, but I’m not mad at it."

Danson, 77, scored a nomination for his role as Charles — a retired professor who loses his wife and discovers a new hobby as a private investigator’s assistant, infiltrating a senior living facility to help solve a case — on Netflix’s A Man on the Inside.

In an interview with PEOPLE in November 2024, the actor said that getting to explore aging on the show was especially meaningful to him. 

"We get to explore aging, all those things that, in this country, sometimes we're afraid to talk about, memory loss, everything, we broach with a tenderness and a seriousness still contained in a kind of light-hearted, joyful way," Danson explained. "I'm so happy because I'm 76 and I get to be part of this conversation, which is becoming more and more of my conversation in life."

In Shrinking, Ford, 82, plays psychiatrist Paul Rhodes, who is navigating his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease. He has been applauded for his portrayal of the character, telling PEOPLE in December 2024 that he takes the role “deadly f---ing seriously.”

“There's no intention to make it into a joke,” he explained. “But there are people that absorb these kinds of experiences with grace and courage and a little bit of wisdom. And that is not to say that some people do not.” 

“It's just to say that this is a person particularly equipped to communicate what it is that it's like, and that is something that I feel that is worth sharing with our audience,” he added.

White, 34, was nominated for his performance as award-winning chef Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto on The Bear.

While speaking to Uproxx in 2022, the actor opened up about the intense preparation he underwent before taking on the role.

“Before the pilot, we had a fair amount of time to kind of rehearse and be in that space. Ayo [Edebiri] and I went to a two-week kind of crash course in culinary school,” he shared. “And then she went to work at a couple of restaurants, I think in L.A. And I worked at a restaurant in L.A., a different restaurant and then also worked with a really wonderful chef in New York."

"So we kind of separated after that," White continued. "But Ayo and I got to know each other through learning to cook, which was really nice."

"And then the rhythm of it and stuff like that. I see a lot of similarities between working in a kitchen and working on a film or television crew," he added.

See PEOPLE's full coverage of the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, airing on Netflix.