2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards

Date: February 24, 1996

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Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 

• Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson (Leaving Las Vegas)

Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon (Nixon)

James Earl Jones as Reverend Kumalo (Cry, the Beloved Country)

Sean Penn as Matthew Poncelet (Dead Man Walking)

Massimo Troisi as Mario Ruoppolo (Il Postino: The Postman)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking)

Joan Allen as Pat Nixon (Nixon)

Elisabeth Shue as Sera (Leaving Las Vegas)

Meryl Streep  as Francesca Johnson (The Bridges of Madison County)

Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role 

• Ed Harris as Gene Kranz (Apollo 13)

Kevin Bacon as Henri Young (Murder in the First)

Kenneth Branagh as Iago (Othello )

Don Cheadle as Mouse Alexander (Devil in a Blue Dress)

Kevin Spacey as Roger "Verbal" Klint (The Usual Suspects)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)

Stockard Channing as Mary (Smoke)

Anjelica Huston as Barbara Weston (The Crossing Guard)

Mira Sorvino as Linda Ash (Mighty Aphrodite)

Mare Winningham as Georgia (Georgia)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• Apollo 13 (1995)

Get Shorty (1995)

How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

Nixon (1995)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Television

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

• Gary Sinise as Harry S. Truman (Truman)

Alec Baldwin as Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Laurence Fishburne as Hannibal Lee (The Tuskegee Airmen)

James Garner as Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise)

Tommy Lee Jones as Hewey Calloway (The Good Old Boys)

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

• Alfre Woodard as Berniece Charles (The Piano Lesson)

Glenn Close as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story)

Sally Field as Bess Alcott Steed Garner (A Woman of Independent Means)

Anjelica Huston as Calamity Jane (Buffalo Girls)

Sela Ward as Jessica Savitch (Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Anthony Edwards as Mark Greene (ER)

George Clooney as Doug Ross (ER)

David Duchovny as Fox Mulder (The X-Files)

Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz (NYPD Blue)

Jimmy Smits as Bobby Simone (NYPD Blue)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully (The X-Files)

Christine Lahti as Kathryn Austin (Chicago Hope)

Sharon Lawrence as Sylvia Costas (NYPD Blue)

Julianna Margulies as Carol Hathaway (ER)

Sela Ward as Theodora "Teddy" Reed (Sisters)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane (Frasier)

Jason Alexander as George Costanza (Seinfeld)

Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane (Frasier)

Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman (Mad About You)

Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Christine Baranski as Maryann Thorpe (Cybill)

Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown (Murphy Brown)

Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman (Mad About You)

Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay (Friends)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes (Seinfeld)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• ER 

Chicago Hope

Law & Order

NYPD Blue

Picket Fences 

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Friends

Cybill

Frasier

Mad About You

Seinfeld


Screen Actors Guild Awards 32nd Annual Life Achievement Award

• Robert Redford