1st Annual SAG Awards Coverage

Here is the list of nominees and winners for the 1st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Handed out on February 25th, 1995, the awards were for performances in 1994. The winners are indicated with a **.

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
• **Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
• Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool
• Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption
• John Travolta - Pulp Fiction

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• **Jodie Foster - Nell
• Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
• Meg Ryan - When A Man Loves A Woman
• Susan Sarandon - The Client
• Meryl Streep - The River Wild

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
• **Martin Landau - Ed Wood
• Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway
• Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump
• John Turturro - Quiz Show

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies
• Sally Field - Forrest Gump
• Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
• **Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
• Robin Wright - Forrest Gump

TELEVISION OR CABLE PROGRAMS

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

• James Garner - The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
• **Raul Julia - The Burning Season
• John Malkovich - Heart of Darkness
• Gary Sinise - Stephen King's The Stand
• Forest Whitaker - The Enemy Within

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

• Katherine Hepburn - One Christmas
• Diane Keaton - Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
• Sissy Spacek - A Place for Annie
• Cicely Tyson - The Oldest Living Confederate Wife Tells All
• **Joanne Woodward - Breathing Lessons

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Hector Elizondo - Chicago Hope
• **Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue
• Mandy Patinkin - Chicago Hope
• Tom Skerritt - Picket Fences
• Patrick Stewart - Star Trek: The Next Generation

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• **Kathy Baker - Picket Fences
• Swoosie Kurtz - Sisters
• Angela Lansbury - Murder, She Wrote
• Jane Seymour - Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
• Cicely Tyson - Sweet Justice

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• **Jason Alexander - Seinfeld
• John Goodman - Roseanne
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier
• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier
• Paul Reiser - Mad About You

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown
• Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen
• **Helen Hunt - Mad About You
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld
• Roseanne - Roseanne

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• Chicago Hope
• ER
• Law & Order
• **NYPD Blue
• Picket Fences

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Frasier
• Mad About You
• Murphy Brown
• Northern Exposure
• **Seinfeld

Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award Recipient

• George Burns