3rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Results and Commentary (1997)

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• Date of Ceremony: Saturday, February 22, 1997
• For performances seen in: 1996

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Now in its third year, the Screen Actors Guild Awards® took place on February 22, 1997 and aired live on NBC from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.

A highlight for the audience were two cast reunions. Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton and Clarence Williams III of the Mod Squad presented the Outstanding Performance of an Ensemble of a Drama Series, while LeVar Burton, Cicely Tyson, and Edward Asner, who appeared together in Roots, presented the awards for Outstanding Performances by a Male and a Female in a movie or miniseries.

On the film side, The Birdcage took home the ensemble award, while Shine’s Geoffrey Rush and Fargo’s Frances McDormand took home individual performance awards.

On the TV side, the celebratory hardware was taken home by the casts of E.R. and Seinfeld.

Glenn Close presented the Life Achievement Award to Angela Lansbury.

Here’s the full list of winners.

Results

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• The Birdcage
  Hank Azaria, Christine Baranski, Dan Futterman, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest and Robin Williams

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Shine
  Geoffrey Rush

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Fargo
  Frances McDormand

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jerry Maguire
  Cuba Gooding Jr.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• The Mirror Has Two Faces
  Lauren Bacall

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• NYPD Blue
  Dennis Franz

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• The X-Files
  Gillian Anderson

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Seinfeld
  Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jerry Seinfeld

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• 3rd Rock From The Sun
  John Lithgow

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Seinfeld
  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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

• Rasputin
  Alan Rickman

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

• The Late Shift
  Kathy Bates

33rd Life Achievement Award

• Angela Lansbury