4th Screen Actors Guild Awards

Date: March 8, 1998

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Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 

• Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall (As Good as It Gets)

Matt Damon as Will Hunting (Good Will Hunting)
Robert Duvall as Euliss "Sonny" Dewey - The Apostle E.F. (The Apostle)
Peter Fonda as Ulee Jackson (Ulee's Gold)
Dustin Hoffman as Stanley Motss (Wag the Dog)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly (As Good as It Gets)

Helena Bonham Carter as Kate Croy (The Wings of the Dove)
Judi Dench as Queen Victoria (Mrs Brown)
Pam Grier as Jackie Brown (Jackie Brown)
Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater (Titanic)
Robin Wright Penn as Maureen Murphy Quinn (She's So Lovely)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role 

• Robin Williams as Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting)

Billy Connolly as John Brown (Mrs Brown)
Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams (Amistad)
Greg Kinnear as Simon Bishop (As Good as It Gets)
Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner (Boogie Nights)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken (L.A. Confidential)
• Gloria Stuart as Old Rose (Titanic)

Minnie Driver as Skylar (Good Will Hunting)
Alison Elliot as Millie Theale (The Wings of the Dove)
Julianne Moore as Amber Waves (Boogie Nights)


Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• The Full Monty (1997)

Boogie Nights (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Titanic (1997)

Television

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

• Gary Sinise as George Wallace (George Wallace)

Jack Lemmon as Juror #8 (12 Angry Men)
Sidney Poitier as Nelson Mandela (Mandela and de Klerk)
Ving Rhames as Don King (Don King: Only in America)
George C. Scott as Juror #3 (12 Angry Men)


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

• Alfre Woodard as Eunice Evers (Miss Evers' Boys)

Glenn Close as Janet (In the Gloaming)
Faye Dunaway as Phyllis Gold (The Twilight of the Golds)
Sigourney Weaver as Lady Claudia Hoffman (Snow White: A Tale of Terror)
Mare Winningham as Lurleen Wallace (George Wallace)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Anthony Edwards as Mark Greene (ER)

David Duchovny as Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz (NYPD Blue)
Jimmy Smits as Bobby Simone (NYPD Blue)
Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy (Law & Order)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Julianna Margulies as Carol Hathaway (ER)

Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully (The X-Files)
Kim Delaney as Dianne Russell (NYPD Blue)
Christine Lahti as Kate Austin (Chicago Hope)
Della Reese as Tess Touched by an Angel)


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)

Kirstie Alley as Veronica "Ronnie" Chase (Veronica's Closet)
Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan (Ellen)
Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal (Ally McBeal)
Helen Hunt as Jamie "James" Buchman (Mad About You)


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
Ally McBeal
Frasier
Mad About You


Screen Actors Guild Awards 34th Annual Life Achievement Award

• Elizabeth Taylor