Screen Actors Guild Awards: 1996

Actor

Date:	24 February
Location:	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series


Winner:
	"The X Files" (1993) - Gillian Anderson (I)
Other Nominees:
	"Chicago Hope" (1994) - Christine Lahti (I) "ER" (1994) - Julianna Margulies "NYPD Blue" (1993) - Sharon Lawrence (I) "Sisters" (1991) - Sela Ward

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series


Winner:
	"ER" (1994) - Anthony Edwards (I)
Other Nominees:
	"ER" (1994) - George Clooney "NYPD Blue" (1993) - Dennis Franz (I) "NYPD Blue" (1993) - Jimmy Smits "The X Files" (1993) - David Duchovny

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series


Winner:
	"Frasier" (1993) - David Hyde Pierce
Other Nominees:
	"Frasier" (1993) - Kelsey Grammer "Mad About You" (1992) - Paul Reiser "Seinfeld" (1990) - Jason Alexander (I) "Seinfeld" (1990) - Michael Richards (I)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - Nicolas Cage
Other Nominees:
	Cry, the Beloved Country (1995) - James Earl Jones Dead Man Walking (1995) - Sean Penn (I) Il postino (1994) - Massimo Troisi Nixon (1995) - Anthony Hopkins

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series


Winner:
	"Cybill" (1995) - Christine Baranski
Other Nominees:
	"Friends" (1994) - Lisa Kudrow "Mad About You" (1992) - Helen Hunt (I) "Murphy Brown" (1988) - Candice Bergen "Seinfeld" (1990) - Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Dead Man Walking (1995) - Susan Sarandon
Other Nominees:
	Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - Elisabeth Shue Nixon (1995) - Joan Allen (I) Sense and Sensibility (1995) - Emma Thompson (I) The Bridges of Madison County (1995) - Meryl Streep

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Sense and Sensibility (1995) - Kate Winslet
Other Nominees:
	Georgia (1995) - Mare Winningham Mighty Aphrodite (1995) - Mira Sorvino Smoke (1995) - Stockard Channing The Crossing Guard (1995) - Anjelica Huston

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Apollo 13 (1995) - Ed Harris (I)
Other Nominees:
	Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) - Don Cheadle Murder in the First (1995) - Kevin Bacon Othello (1995) - Kenneth Branagh The Usual Suspects (1994) - Kevin Spacey

Outstanding Performance by a Cast


Winner:
	Apollo 13 (1995) - Kevin Bacon; Tom Hanks; Ed Harris (I); Bill Paxton; Kathleen Quinlan; Gary Sinise
Other Nominees:
	Get Shorty (1995) - Danny DeVito; Dennis Farina; James Gandolfini; Gene Hackman; Delroy Lindo; David Paymer; Rene Russo; John Travolta How to Make an American Quilt (1995) - Maya Angelou; Anne Bancroft (I); Ellen Burstyn; Samantha Mathis; Kate Nelligan; Winona Ryder; Jean Simmons (I); Lois Smith (I); Alfre Woodard Nixon (1995) - Joan Allen (I); Brian Bedford; Powers Boothe; Kevin Dunn (I); Fyvush Finkel; Annabeth Gish; Tony Goldwyn; Larry Hagman; Ed Harris (I); Edward Herrmann; Anthony Hopkins; Bob Hoskins; Madeline Kahn; E.G. Marshall; David Paymer; David Hyde Pierce; Paul Sorvino; Mary Steenburgen; J.T. Walsh; James Woods (I) Sense and Sensibility (1995) - Hugh Grant (I); Alan Rickman; Emma Thompson (I); Kate Winslet

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series


Winner:
	"Friends" (1994) - Jennifer Aniston; Courteney Cox; Lisa Kudrow; Matt LeBlanc; Matthew Perry (I); David Schwimmer (I)
Other Nominees:
	"Cybill" (1995) - Christine Baranski; Dedee Pfeiffer; Alan Rosenberg (I); Cybill Shepherd; Alicia Witt; Tom Wopat "Frasier" (1993) - Dan Butler (I); Peri Gilpin; Kelsey Grammer; Jane Leeves; John Mahoney (I); David Hyde Pierce "Mad About You" (1992) - Helen Hunt (I); Leila Kenzle; John Pankow; Anne Ramsay; Paul Reiser "Seinfeld" (1990) - Jason Alexander (I); Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Michael Richards (I); Jerry Seinfeld

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series


Winner:
	"ER" (1994) - George Clooney; Anthony Edwards (I); Eriq La Salle (I); Julianna Margulies; Gloria Reuben; Sherry Stringfield; Noah Wyle
Other Nominees:
	"Chicago Hope" (1994) - Adam Arkin; Peter Berg (I); Jayne Brook; Vondie Curtis-Hall; Hector Elizondo; Thomas Gibson (I); Roxanne Hart; Christine Lahti (I); Peter MacNicol; Mandy Patinkin; Jamey Sheridan (I) "Law & Order" (1990) - Benjamin Bratt (I); Jill Hennessy; Steven Hill (I); S. Epatha Merkerson; Chris Noth; Jerry Orbach; Sam Waterston "NYPD Blue" (1993) - Gordon Clapp (I); Kim Delaney (I); Dennis Franz (I); Sharon Lawrence (I); James McDaniel (I); Justine Miceli; Gail O'Grady; Jimmy Smits; Nicholas Turturro "Picket Fences" (1992) - Amy Aquino; Kathy Baker (I); Don Cheadle; Kelly Connell; Fyvush Finkel; Lauren Holly; Costas Mandylor; Marlee Matlin; Justin Shenkarow; Tom Skerritt; Ray Walston; Adam Wylie

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries


Winner:
	The Piano Lesson (1995) (TV) - Alfre Woodard
Other Nominees:
	"A Woman of Independent Means" (1995) - Sally Field Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (1995) (TV) - Sela Ward Buffalo Girls (1995) (TV) - Anjelica Huston Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) (TV) - Glenn Close

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries


Winner:
	Truman (1995) (TV) - Gary Sinise
Other Nominees:
	A Streetcar Named Desire (1995) (TV) - Alec Baldwin The Good Old Boys (1995) (TV) - Tommy Lee Jones The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise (1995) (TV) - James Garner The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) (TV) - Laurence Fishburne