3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards

Date: February 22, 1997

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Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 

• Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott (Shine)

Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire)
Ralph Fiennes as László Almásy (The English Patient)
Woody Harrelson as Larry Flynt (The People vs. Larry Flynt)
Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers (Sling Blade)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson (Fargo)

Brenda Blethyn as Cynthia Rose Purly (Secrets & Lies)
Diane Keaton as Bessie (Marvin's Room)
Gena Rowlands as Mildred (Unhook the Stars)
Kristin Scott Thomas as Katharine Clifton (The English Patient)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Rod Tidwell (Jerry Maguire)

Hank Azaria as Agador Spartacus (The Birdcage)
Nathan Lane as Albert Goldman (The Birdcage)
William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard (Fargo)
Noah Taylor as David Helfgott (Shine)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Lauren Bacall as Hannah Morgan (The Mirror Has Two Faces)

Juliette Binoche as Hana (The English Patient)
Marisa Tomei as Monica (Unhook the Stars)
Gwen Verdon as Ruth (Marvin's Room)
Renée Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd (Jerry Maguire)


Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• The Birdcage (1996)

The English Patient (1996)
Marvin's Room (1996)
Shine (1996)
Sling Blade (1996)

Television

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

• Alan Rickman as Grigori Rasputin (Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny)

Armand Assante as John Gotti (Gotti)
Beau Bridges as Bill Januson (Hidden in America)
Robert Duvall as Adolf Eichmann (The Man Who Captured Eichmann)
Ed Harris as Lassiter (Riders of the Purple Sage)


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

• Kathy Bates as Helen Kushnick (The Late Shift)

Ann Bancroft as Abigail Tillerman (Homecoming)
Stockard Channing as Barbara Whitney (An Unexpected Family)
Jena Malone as Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright (Bastard out of Carolina)
Cicely Tyson as Jordan Roosevelt (The Road to Galveston)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series 

• Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz (NYPD Blue)

George Clooney as Doug Ross (ER)
David Duchovny as Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
Anthony Edwards as Mark Greene (ER)
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)

Kim Delaney as Diane Russell (NYPD Blue)
Christine Lahti as Kate Austin (Chicago Hope)
Della Reese as Tess (Touched by an Angel)
Jane Seymour as Dr. Michaela Quinn (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series 

• John Lithgow as Dick Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun)

Jason Alexander as George Costanza (Seinfeld)
Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane (Frasier)
David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane (Frasier)
Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes (Seinfeld)

Christine Baranski as Maryann Thorpe (Cybill)
Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan (Ellen)
Helen Hunt as Jamie "James" Buchman (Mad About You)
Kristen Johnston as Sally Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun)


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• ER

Chicago Hope
Law & Order
NYPD Blue
The X-Files

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Seinfeld

3rd Rock from the Sun
Frasier
Mad About You
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Screen Actors Guild Awards 33rd Annual Life Achievement Award

• Angela Lansbury