2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Results and Commentary (1996)

Actor Statuette
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• Date of Ceremony: Saturday, February 24, 1996
• For performances seen in: 1995

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On February 24, 1996, stars gathered at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for the 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, which aired live on NBC.

Apollo 13 took home the new Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award, while Nicolas Cage and Susan Sarandon took home the top film acting awards.

On the TV side, ER and Friends went home with the ensemble awards.

Tom Skerritt presented Robert Redford with the Guild’s Life Achievement Award.

Results

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• Apollo 13
  Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Bill Paxton and Gary Sinise

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Leaving Las Vegas
  Nicolas Cage

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Dead Man Walking
  Susan Sarandon

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Apollo 13
  Ed Harris

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Sense and Sensibility
  Kate Winslet

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• E.R.
  George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, Gloria Reuben, Eriq LaSalle, Sherry Stringfield and Noah Wyle

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• E.R.
  Anthony Edwards

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• The X-Files
  Gillian Anderson

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Friends
  Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Frasier
  David Hyde Pierce

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Cybill
  Christine Baranski

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

• Truman
  Gary Sinise

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

• The Piano Lesson, Hallmark Hall of Fame
  Alfre Woodard

32nd Life Achievement Award

• Robert Redford