2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards

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The 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 1995, took place on February 24, 1996. The ceremony was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, and was televised live by NBC. The nominees were announced on January 18, 1996. This was the first year the category of Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture was offered.{{cite news|last1=Puig|first1=Claudia|title=Realism the Focus of Nominees for Annual SAG Picks|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-19-ca-26214-story.html|access-date=25 June 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=19 January 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625101815/http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-19/entertainment/ca-26214_1_outstanding-performance|archive-date=25 June 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Collins|first1=Scott|title=Cage, Sarandon Capture Top Screen Actor Awards|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-26-ca-40205-story.html|access-date=25 June 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=26 February 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921113019/http://articles.latimes.com/1996-02-26/entertainment/ca-40205_1_actor-awards|archive-date=21 September 2015|url-status=live}}

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

File:Nicolas Cage Deauville 2013.jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role winner]]

File:Susan Sarandon at the set of 'American Mirror' cropped and edited.jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winner]]

File:Ed Harris by Gage Skidmore.jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role winner]]

File:Kate Winslet March 18, 2014 (cropped).jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role winner]]

File:Gary Sinise 2011 (cropped).jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winner]]

File:Alfre Woodard.jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winner]]

File:AnthonyEdwards.jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series winner]]

File:Gillian Anderson Berlinale 2017.jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series winner]]

File:David Hyde Pierce outside Harold Pinter Theatre.jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series winner]]

File:Christine Baranski at 2015 PaleyFest.jpg, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series winner]]

=[[Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award]]=

Robert Redford

=Film=

class=wikitable style="width="100%"
style="background:#FAEB86;" width="50%"\| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="50%"\| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
valign="top" \| *Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas* as Ben Sanderson** Anthony Hopkins – Nixon as Richard Nixon James Earl Jones – Cry, the Beloved Country as Reverend Stephen Kumalo Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet Massimo Troisi – Il Postino: The Postman as Mario Ruoppolo \| valign="top" \| *Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking* as Sister Helen Prejean** Joan Allen – Nixon as Pat Nixon Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas as Sera Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood
style="background:#FAEB86;"\| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role ! style="background:#FAEB86;"\| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
valign="top" \| *Ed Harris – Apollo 13* as Gene Kranz** Kevin Bacon – Murder in the First as Henri Young Kenneth Branagh – Othello as Iago Don Cheadle – Devil in a Blue Dress as Mouse Alexander Kevin Spacey – The Usual Suspects as Roger "Verbal" Kint \| valign="top" \| *Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility* as Marianne Dashwood** Stockard Channing – Smoke as Ruby McNutt Anjelica Huston – The Crossing Guard as Mary Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite as Linda Ash Mare Winningham – Georgia as Georgia Flood
colspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86;"\| Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"\| Apollo 13 – Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan, and Gary Sinise Get Shorty – Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, David Paymer, Rene Russo, and John Travolta How to Make an American Quilt – Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Samantha Mathis, Kate Nelligan, Winona Ryder, Jean Simmons, Lois Smith, and Alfre Woodard Nixon – Joan Allen, Brian Bedford, Powers Boothe, Kevin Dunn, Fyvush Finkel, Annabeth Gish, Tony Goldwyn, Larry Hagman, Ed Harris, Edward Herrmann, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Madeline Kahn, E. G. Marshall, David Paymer, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J. T. Walsh, and James Woods Sense and Sensibility – Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, and Kate Winslet

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style="background:#FAEB86;" width="50%"| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="50%"| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

valign="top" |

Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson

Anthony Hopkins – Nixon as Richard Nixon
James Earl Jones – Cry, the Beloved Country as Reverend Stephen Kumalo
Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet
Massimo Troisi – Il Postino: The Postman as Mario Ruoppolo

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Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean

Joan Allen – Nixon as Pat Nixon
Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas as Sera
Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood

style="background:#FAEB86;"| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

! style="background:#FAEB86;"| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

valign="top" |

Ed Harris – Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz

Kevin Bacon – Murder in the First as Henri Young
Kenneth Branagh – Othello as Iago
Don Cheadle – Devil in a Blue Dress as Mouse Alexander
Kevin Spacey – The Usual Suspects as Roger "Verbal" Kint

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Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood

Stockard Channing – Smoke as Ruby McNutt
Anjelica Huston – The Crossing Guard as Mary
Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite as Linda Ash
Mare Winningham – Georgia as Georgia Flood

colspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86;"| Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|

Apollo 13 – Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan, and Gary Sinise

Get Shorty – Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, David Paymer, Rene Russo, and John Travolta
How to Make an American Quilt – Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Samantha Mathis, Kate Nelligan, Winona Ryder, Jean Simmons, Lois Smith, and Alfre Woodard
Nixon – Joan Allen, Brian Bedford, Powers Boothe, Kevin Dunn, Fyvush Finkel, Annabeth Gish, Tony Goldwyn, Larry Hagman, Ed Harris, Edward Herrmann, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Madeline Kahn, E. G. Marshall, David Paymer, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J. T. Walsh, and James Woods
Sense and Sensibility – Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, and Kate Winslet

=Television=

class=wikitable style="width="100%"
style="background:#FAEB86;" width="50%"\| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="50%"\| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
valign="top" \| *Gary Sinise – Truman* as Harry S. Truman** Alec Baldwin – A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski Laurence Fishburne – The Tuskegee Airmen as Hannibal Lee James Garner – The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise as Jim Rockford Tommy Lee Jones – The Good Old Boys as Hewey Calloway \| valign="top" \| *Alfre Woodard – The Piano Lesson* as Berniece Charles** Glenn Close – Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Margarethe Cammermeyer Sally Field – A Woman of Independent Means as Bess Alcott Steed Garner Anjelica Huston – Buffalo Girls as Calamity Jane Sela Ward – Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story as Jessica Savitch
style="background:#FAEB86;"\| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series ! style="background:#FAEB86;"\| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
valign="top" \| Anthony Edwards – ER as Mark Greene George Clooney – ER as Doug Ross David Duchovny – The X-Files as Fox Mulder Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz Jimmy Smits – NYPD Blue as Bobby Simone \| valign="top" \| *Gillian Anderson – The X-Files* as Dana Scully** Christine Lahti – Chicago Hope as Kathryn Austin Sharon Lawrence – NYPD Blue as Sylvia Costas Julianna Margulies – ER as Carol Hathaway Sela Ward – Sisters as Theodora "Teddy" Reed Margolis Falconer Sorenson
style="background:#FAEB86;"\| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series ! style="background:#FAEB86;"\| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
valign="top" \| *David Hyde Pierce – Frasier* as Niles Crane** Jason Alexander – Seinfeld as George Costanza Kelsey Grammer – Frasier as Frasier Crane Paul Reiser – Mad About You as Paul Buchman Michael Richards – Seinfeld as Cosmo Kramer \| valign="top" \| *Christine Baranski – Cybill* as Maryann Thorpe** Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown as Murphy Brown Helen Hunt – Mad About You as Jamie Buchman Lisa Kudrow – Friends as Phoebe Buffay Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Seinfeld as Elaine Benes
colspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86;" \| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"\| ER – George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, Gloria Reuben, Eriq La Salle, Sherry Stringfield, and Noah Wyle Chicago Hope – Adam Arkin, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Héctor Elizondo, Thomas Gibson, Roxanne Hart, Christine Lahti, Peter MacNicol, Mandy Patinkin, and Jamey Sheridan Law & Order – Benjamin Bratt, Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, and Sam Waterston NYPD Blue – Gordon Clapp, Kim Delaney, Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Justine Miceli, Gail O'Grady, Jimmy Smits, and Nicholas Turturro Picket Fences – Amy Aquino, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Kelly Connell, Lauren Holly, Fyvush Finkel, Costas Mandylor, Holly Marie Combs, Marlee Matlin, Justin Shenkarow, Tom Skerritt, Adam Wylie, Ray Walston
colspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86;"\| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"\| Friends – Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer Cybill – Christine Baranski, Dedee Pfeiffer, Alan Rosenberg, Cybill Shepherd, Alicia Witt, and Tom Wopat Frasier – Dan Butler, Peri Gilpin, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, and David Hyde Pierce Mad About You – Helen Hunt, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow, Anne Ramsay, and Paul Reiser Seinfeld – Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, and Jerry Seinfeld

class=wikitable style="width="100%"

style="background:#FAEB86;" width="50%"| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="50%"| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

valign="top" |

Gary Sinise – Truman as Harry S. Truman

Alec Baldwin – A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski
Laurence Fishburne – The Tuskegee Airmen as Hannibal Lee
James Garner – The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise as Jim Rockford
Tommy Lee Jones – The Good Old Boys as Hewey Calloway

| valign="top" |

Alfre Woodard – The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles

Glenn Close – Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Margarethe Cammermeyer
Sally Field – A Woman of Independent Means as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
Anjelica Huston – Buffalo Girls as Calamity Jane
Sela Ward – Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story as Jessica Savitch

style="background:#FAEB86;"| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

! style="background:#FAEB86;"| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

valign="top" |

Anthony Edwards – ER as Mark Greene

George Clooney – ER as Doug Ross
David Duchovny – The X-Files as Fox Mulder
Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz
Jimmy Smits – NYPD Blue as Bobby Simone

| valign="top" |

Gillian Anderson – The X-Files as Dana Scully

Christine Lahti – Chicago Hope as Kathryn Austin
Sharon Lawrence – NYPD Blue as Sylvia Costas
Julianna Margulies – ER as Carol Hathaway
Sela Ward – Sisters as Theodora "Teddy" Reed Margolis Falconer Sorenson

style="background:#FAEB86;"| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

! style="background:#FAEB86;"| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

valign="top" |

David Hyde Pierce – Frasier as Niles Crane

Jason Alexander – Seinfeld as George Costanza
Kelsey Grammer – Frasier as Frasier Crane
Paul Reiser – Mad About You as Paul Buchman
Michael Richards – Seinfeld as Cosmo Kramer

| valign="top" |

Christine Baranski – Cybill as Maryann Thorpe

Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown as Murphy Brown
Helen Hunt – Mad About You as Jamie Buchman
Lisa Kudrow – Friends as Phoebe Buffay
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Seinfeld as Elaine Benes

colspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86;" | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|

ER – George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, Gloria Reuben, Eriq La Salle, Sherry Stringfield, and Noah Wyle

Chicago Hope – Adam Arkin, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Héctor Elizondo, Thomas Gibson, Roxanne Hart, Christine Lahti, Peter MacNicol, Mandy Patinkin, and Jamey Sheridan
Law & Order – Benjamin Bratt, Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, and Sam Waterston
NYPD Blue – Gordon Clapp, Kim Delaney, Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Justine Miceli, Gail O'Grady, Jimmy Smits, and Nicholas Turturro
Picket Fences – Amy Aquino, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Kelly Connell, Lauren Holly, Fyvush Finkel, Costas Mandylor, Holly Marie Combs, Marlee Matlin, Justin Shenkarow, Tom Skerritt, Adam Wylie, Ray Walston

colspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86;"| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|

Friends – Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer

Cybill – Christine Baranski, Dedee Pfeiffer, Alan Rosenberg, Cybill Shepherd, Alicia Witt, and Tom Wopat
Frasier – Dan Butler, Peri Gilpin, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, and David Hyde Pierce
Mad About You – Helen Hunt, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow, Anne Ramsay, and Paul Reiser
Seinfeld – Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, and Jerry Seinfeld

References

External links

[http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/2nd-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards The 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards]

*1995

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