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 AuditoriuminLos 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.^[1]^[2]

Winners and nominees[edit]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Nicolas Cage, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role winner

Susan Sarandon, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winner

Ed Harris, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role winner

Kate Winslet, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role winner

Gary Sinise, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winner

Alfre Woodard, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winner

Anthony Edwards, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series winner

Gillian Anderson, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series winner

David Hyde Pierce, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series winner

Christine Baranski, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series winner

Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award[edit]

Robert Redford

Film[edit]

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
*Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas* as Ben Sanderson** Anthony Hopkins – NixonasRichard Nixon James Earl Jones – Cry, the Beloved Country as Reverend Stephen Kumalo Sean Penn – Dead Man WalkingasMatthew Poncelet Massimo Troisi – Il Postino: The Postman as Mario Ruoppolo	*Susan Sarandon – Dead Man WalkingasSister Helen Prejean* Joan Allen – NixonasPat Nixon Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas as Sera Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson Emma Thompson – Sense and SensibilityasElinor Dashwood
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
*Ed Harris – Apollo 13asGene Kranz* Kevin Bacon – Murder in the FirstasHenri Young Kenneth Branagh – OthelloasIago Don Cheadle – Devil in a Blue Dress as Mouse Alexander Kevin Spacey – The Usual SuspectsasRoger "Verbal" Kint	*Kate Winslet – Sense and SensibilityasMarianne 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
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
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[edit]

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
*Gary Sinise – TrumanasHarry S. Truman* Alec Baldwin – A Streetcar Named DesireasStanley Kowalski Laurence Fishburne – The Tuskegee Airmen as Hannibal Lee James Garner – The Rockford Files: A Blessing in DisguiseasJim Rockford Tommy Lee Jones – The Good Old Boys as Hewey Calloway	*Alfre Woodard – The Piano Lesson* as Berniece Charles** Glenn Close – Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer StoryasMargarethe Cammermeyer Sally Field – A Woman of Independent Means as Bess Alcott Steed Garner Anjelica Huston – Buffalo GirlsasCalamity Jane Sela Ward – Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch StoryasJessica Savitch
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Anthony Edwards – ERasMark Greene George Clooney – ERasDoug Ross David Duchovny – The X-FilesasFox Mulder Dennis Franz – NYPD BlueasAndy Sipowicz Jimmy Smits – NYPD BlueasBobby Simone	*Gillian Anderson – The X-FilesasDana Scully* Christine Lahti – Chicago Hope as Kathryn Austin Sharon Lawrence – NYPD BlueasSylvia Costas Julianna Margulies – ERasCarol Hathaway Sela Ward – Sisters as Theodora "Teddy" Reed Margolis Falconer Sorenson
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
*David Hyde Pierce – FrasierasNiles Crane* Jason Alexander – SeinfeldasGeorge Costanza Kelsey Grammer – FrasierasFrasier Crane Paul Reiser – Mad About You as Paul Buchman Michael Richards – SeinfeldasCosmo Kramer	*Christine Baranski – Cybill* as Maryann Thorpe** Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown as Murphy Brown Helen Hunt – Mad About You as Jamie Buchman Lisa Kudrow – FriendsasPhoebe Buffay Julia Louis-Dreyfus – SeinfeldasElaine Benes
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
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
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
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[edit]

^ Puig, Claudia (19 January 1996). "Realism the Focus of Nominees for Annual SAG Picks". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

^ Collins, Scott (26 February 1996). "Cage, Sarandon Capture Top Screen Actor Awards". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

External links[edit]

The 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

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