2nd Annual SAG Awards Coverage

Here is the list of nominees and winners for the 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Handed out on February 24th, 1996, the awards were for performances in 1995. The winners are indicated with **.

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• **Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
• Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
• James Earl Jones - Cry The Beloved Country
• Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
• Massimo Troisi - The Postman / Il Postino

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Joan Allen - Nixon
• **Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking
• Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
• Meryl Streep - The Bridges Of Madison County
• Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kevin Bacon - Murder In The First
• Kenneth Branagh - Othello
• Don Cheadle - Devil In A Blue Dress
• **Ed Harris - Apollo 13
• Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Stockard Channing - Smoke
• Anjelica Huston - The Crossing Guard
• Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
• Mare Winningham - Georgia
• **Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensiblility

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• **Apollo 13
• Get Shorty
• How To Make An American Quilt
• Nixon
• Sense and Sensibility

TELEVISION OR CABLE PROGRAMS:

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

• Alec Baldwin - A Streetcar Named Desire
• Laurence Fishburne - The Tuskegee Airmen
• James Garner - The Rockford Files
• Tommy Lee Jones - The Good Old Boys
• **Gary Sinise - Truman

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

• Glenn Close - Serving In Silence
• Sally Field - A Woman Of Independent Means
• Anjelica Huston - Buffalo Girls
• Sela Ward - Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
• **Alfre Woodard - The Piano Lesson, Hallmark Hall of Fame

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• George Clooney - ER
• David Duchovny - The X-Files
• **Anthony Edwards - ER
• Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue
• Jimmy Smits - NYPD Blue

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• **Gillian Anderson - The X-Files
• Christine Lahti - Chicago Hope
• Sharon Lawrence - NYPD Blue
• Julianna Margulies - ER
• Sela Ward - Sisters

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jason Alexander - Seinfeld
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier
• **David Hyde Pierce - Frasier
• Paul Reiser - Mad About You
• Michael Richards - Seinfeld

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• **Christine Baranski - Cybill
• Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown
• Helen Hunt - Mad About You
• Lisa Kudrow - Friends
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld

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

• Cybill
• Frasier
• **Friends
• Mad About You
• Seinfeld

Lifetime Acheivement Award

• Robert Redford