Screen Actors Guild Awards: 1996

Actor

Date:	24 February
Location:	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series


Winner:
	"X Files, The" (1993) - Gillian Anderson (I)
Other Nominees:
	"Chicago Hope" (1994) - Christine Lahti (I) "ER" (1994) - Julianna Margulies "NYPD Blue" (1993) - Sharon Lawrence "Sisters" (1991) - Sela Ward

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series


Winner:
	"ER" (1994) - Anthony Edwards (I)
Other Nominees:
	"ER" (1994) - George Clooney "NYPD Blue" (1993) - Dennis Franz (I) "NYPD Blue" (1993) - Jimmy Smits "X Files, The" (1993) - David Duchovny

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - Nicolas Cage
Other Nominees:
	Cry, the Beloved Country (1995) - James Earl Jones Dead Man Walking (1995) - Sean Penn (I) Nixon (1995) - Anthony Hopkins Postino, Il (1994) - Massimo Troisi

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series


Winner:
	"Cybill" (1995) - Christine Baranski
Other Nominees:
	"Friends" (1994) - Lisa Kudrow "Mad About You" (1992) - Helen Hunt (I) "Murphy Brown" (1988) - Candice Bergen "Seinfeld" (1990) - Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series


Winner:
	"Frasier" (1993) - David Hyde Pierce
Other Nominees:
	"Frasier" (1993) - Kelsey Grammer "Mad About You" (1992) - Paul Reiser "Seinfeld" (1990) - Jason Alexander (I) "Seinfeld" (1990) - Michael Richards (I)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Dead Man Walking (1995) - Susan Sarandon
Other Nominees:
	Bridges of Madison County, The (1995) - Meryl Streep Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - Elisabeth Shue Nixon (1995) - Joan Allen (I) Sense and Sensibility (1995) - Emma Thompson (I)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Sense and Sensibility (1995) - Kate Winslet
Other Nominees:
	Crossing Guard, The (1995) - Anjelica Huston Georgia (1995) - Mare Winningham Mighty Aphrodite (1995) - Mira Sorvino Smoke (1995) - Stockard Channing

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Apollo 13 (1995) - Ed Harris (I)
Other Nominees:
	Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) - Don Cheadle Murder in the First (1995) - Kevin Bacon Othello (1995) - Kenneth Branagh Usual Suspects, The (1995) - Kevin Spacey

Outstanding Performance by a Cast


Winner:
	Apollo 13 (1995)
Other Nominees:
	Get Shorty (1995) How to Make an American Quilt (1995) Nixon (1995) Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series


Winner:
	"Friends" (1994)
Other Nominees:
	"Cybill" (1995) "Frasier" (1993) "Mad About You" (1992) "Seinfeld" (1990)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series


Winner:
	"ER" (1994)
Other Nominees:
	"Chicago Hope" (1994) "Law & Order" (1990) "NYPD Blue" (1993) "Picket Fences" (1992)

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


Winner:
	Truman (1995) (TV) - Gary Sinise
Other Nominees:
	Good Old Boys, The (1995) (TV) - Tommy Lee Jones Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise, The (1995) (TV) - James Garner Streetcar Named Desire, A (1995) (TV) - Alec Baldwin Tuskegee Airmen, The (1995) (TV) - Laurence Fishburne

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


Winner:
	Piano Lesson, The (1995) (TV) - Alfre Woodard
Other Nominees:
	"Woman of Independent Means, A" (1995) - Sally Field Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (1995) (TV) - Sela Ward Buffalo Girls (1995) (TV) - Anjelica Huston Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) (TV) - Glenn Close