1st Screen Actors Guild Awards

Date: February 25, 1995

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Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 

• Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)

Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (The Shawshank Redemption)
Paul Newman as Donald "Sully" Sullivan (Nobody's Fool)
Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
John Travolta as Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Jodie Foster as Nell Kellty (Nell)

Jessica Lange as Carly Marshall (Blue Sky)
Meg Ryan as Alice Green (When a Man Loves a Woman)
Susan Sarandon as Regina "Reggie" Love (The Client)
Meryl Streep as Gail (The River Wild)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role 

• Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi (Ed Wood)

Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
Chazz Palminteri as Cheech (Bullets over Broadway)
Gary Sinise as Lt. Dan Taylor (Forrest Gump)
John Turturro as Herb Stempel (Quiz Show)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Dianne Wiest as Helen Sinclair (Bullets over Broadway)

Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen Tasker (True Lies)
Sally Field as Mrs. Gump (Forrest Gump)
Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace (Pulp Fiction)
Robin Wright as Jenny Curran-Gump (Forrest Gump)

Television

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

• Raúl Juliá as Francisco "Chico" Mendes (The Burning Season)

James Garner as Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.)
John Malkovich as Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
Gary Sinise as Stu Redman (The Stand)
Forest Whitaker as Col. Mackenzie "Mac" Casey (The Enemy Within)


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

• Joanne Woodward as Maggie Moran (Breathing Lessons)

Katharine Hepburn as Cornelia Beaumont (One Christmas)
Diane Keaton as Amelia Earhart (Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight)
Sissy Spacek as Susan Lansing (A Place for Annie)
Cicely Tyson as Castalia (Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series 

• Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz (NYPD Blue)

Héctor Elizondo as Philip Waters (Chicago Hope)
Mandy Patinkin as Jeffrey Geiger (Chicago Hope)
Tom Skerritt as Jimmy Brock (Picket Fences)

Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Kathy Baker as Jill Brock (Picket Fences)

Swoosie Kurtz as Alexandra "Alex" Reed Halsey Barker (Sisters)
Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote)
Jane Seymour as Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
Cicely Tyson as Carrie Grace Battle (Sweet Justice)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series 

• Jason Alexander as George Costanza (Seinfeld )

John Goodman as Dan Conner (Roseanne)
Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane (Frasier)
David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane (Frasier)
Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman (Mad About You)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman (Mad About You)

Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown (Murphy Brown)
Ellen DeGeneres as Ellan Morgan (Ellen)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes (Seinfeld )
Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner (Roseanne)


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• NYPD Blue 

Chicago Hope
ER
Law & Order
Picket Fences


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Seinfeld

Frasier
Mad About You
Murphy Brown
Northern Exposure

Screen Actors Guild Awards 31st Annual Life Achievement Award

• George Burns