5th Screen Actors Guild Awards

Date: March 7, 1999

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Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 

• Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice (Life Is Beautiful)

Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in Love)
Tom Hanks as Capt. John H. Miller (Saving Private Ryan)
Ian McKellen as James Whale (Gods and Monsters)
Nick Nolte as Wade Whitehouse (Affliction)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps (Shakespeare in Love)

Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I of England (Elizabeth)
Jane Horrocks as LV (Little Voice)
Meryl Streep as Kate Gulden (One True Thing)
Emily Watson as Jacqueline du Pré (Hilary and Jackie)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Robert Duvall as Jerome Facher (A Civil Action)

James Coburn as Glen Whitehouse (Affliction)
David Kelly as Michael O'Sullivan (Waking Ned Devine)
Geoffrey Rush as Philip Henslowe (Shakespeare in Love)

Billy Bob Thornton as Jacob Mitchell (A Simple Plan)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kathy Bates as Libby Holden (Primary Colors)

Brenda Blethyn as Mari Hoff (Little Voice)
Judi Dench as Elizabeth I of England (Shakespeare in Love)
Rachel Griffiths as Hilary du Pré (Hilary and Jackie)
Lynn Redgrave as Hanna (Gods and Monsters)


Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Little Voice (1998)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Waking Ned Devine (1998)

Television

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

• Christopher Reeve as Jason Kemp (Rear Window)

Charles S. Dutton as Charles Williams (Blind Faith)
James Garner as Norman Keane (Legalese)
Ben Kingsley as Sweeney Todd (The Tale of Sweeney Todd)
Ray Liotta as Frank Sinatra (The Rat Pack)
Stanley Tucci as Walter Winchell (Winchell)


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

• Angelina Jolie as Gia Carangi (Gia)

Ann-Margret as Pamela Harriman (Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story)
Stockard Channing as Rachel Luckman (The Baby Dance)
Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Anna Madrigal (Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City)
Mary Steenburgen as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey (About Sarah)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy (Law & Order)

David Duchovny as Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene (ER)
Dennis Franz as Det. Andy Sipowicz (NYPD Blue)
Jimmy Smits as Det. Bobby Simone (NYPD Blue)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Julianna Margulies as Nurse Carol Hathaway (ER)

Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully (The X-Files)
Kim Delaney as Det. Dianne Russell (NYPD Blue)
Christine Lahti as Dr. Kathryn Austin (Chicago Hope)
Annie Potts as Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' Sims (Any Day Now)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Michael J. Fox as Mike Flaherty (Spin City)

Jason Alexander as George Costanza (Seinfeld)
Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane (Frasier)
Peter MacNicol as John Cage (Ally McBeal)
David Hyde Pierce as Dr. Niles Crane (Frasier)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Tracey Ullman as Chic (Tracey Takes On)

Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal (Ally McBeal)
Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes (Seinfeld)
Amy Pietz as Annie Spadaro (Caroline in the City)


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• ER

Law & Order
NYPD Blue
The Practice
The X-Files


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Ally McBeal

3rd Rock from the Sun
Everybody Loves Raymond
Frasier
Friends


Screen Actors Guild Awards 35th Annual Life Achievement Award

• Kirk Douglas