Screen Actors Guild Awards 1996
The second award of the US Screen Actors Guild Awards , the Screen Actors Guild each year in the areas of film (5 categories) and television (8 categories) awards, took place on 24 February 1996 at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium instead. In contrast to the Golden Globe Award , for example, the so-called SAG Awards only honor film, television and ensemble actors and are a yardstick for the upcoming Oscar awards. The winners are chosen by the members of the Screen Actors Guild, which one must belong to to work as an actor in the United States . In the United States, the ceremony was shown live on NBC .
The American actor Robert Redford was honored for his life's work .
Film winners and nominees
Best Actor
Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
- Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
- James Earl Jones - Cry, the Beloved Country
- Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking - His Last Walk (Dead Man Walking)
- Massimo Troisi - The Postman (Il Postino)
Best main actress
Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking - His Last Walk (Dead Man Walking)
- Joan Allen - Nixon
- Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
- Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County (The Bridges of Madison County)
- Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility (Sense and Sensibility)
Best supporting actor
- Kevin Bacon - Murder in the First
- Kenneth Branagh - Othello
- Don Cheadle - Devil in a Blue (Devil in a Blue Dress)
- Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects (The Usual Suspects)
The best supporting actress
Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility (Sense and Sensibility)
- Stockard Channing - Smoke
- Anjelica Huston - Crossing Guard - It happened on the open road (The Crossing Guard)
- Mira Sorvino - Beloved Aphrodite (Mighty Aphrodite)
- Mare Winningham - Georgia
Best acting ensemble
Kevin Bacon , Tom Hanks , Ed Harris , Bill Paxton , Kathleen Quinlan and Gary Sinise - Apollo 13
- Emma Thompson , Kate Winslet , Hugh Grant , Alan Rickman , Imelda Staunton , Tom Wilkinson , Hugh Laurie and Elizabeth Spriggs - Sense and Sensibility (Sense and Sensibility)
- Anthony Hopkins , Joan Allen , Ed Harris , Bob Hoskins and James Woods - Nixon
- John Travolta , Gene Hackman , Rene Russo , Danny DeVito and James Gandolfini - Get Shorty (Get Shorty)
- Winona Ryder , Anne Bancroft , Ellen Burstyn , Kate Nelligan and Kate Capshaw - An American Quilt (How to Make an American Quilt)
Television winners and nominees
Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries
Gary Sinise - Truman - The Man Who Made History (Truman)
- Alec Baldwin - Endstation Sehnsucht (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- Laurence Fishburne - The Honor to Fly (The Tuskegee Airmen)
- James Garner - Detective Rockford - All's well that ends well (The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise)
- Tommy Lee Jones - Once a Cowboy, Always a Cowboy (The Good Old Boys)
Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries
Alfre Woodard - The Piano Lesson
- Glenn Close - Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
- Sally Field - Interplay of Life (A Woman of Independent Means)
- Anjelica Huston - Buffalo Girls
- Sela Ward - The Struggle for Happiness (Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story)
Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Anthony Edwards - Emergency Room - The Emergency Room (ER)
- George Clooney - Emergency Room - The Emergency Room (ER)
- David Duchovny - The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases (The X-Files)
- Dennis Franz - New York Cops - NYPD Blue (NYPD Blue)
- Jimmy Smits - New York Cops - NYPD Blue (NYPD Blue)
Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Gillian Anderson - The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases (The X-Files)
- Christine Lahti - Chicago Hope - End Station Hope (Chicago Hope)
- Sharon Lawrence - New York Cops - NYPD Blue (NYPD Blue)
- Julianna Margulies - Emergency Room - The Emergency Room (ER)
- Sela Ward - A Bouquet of Daughters (Sisters)
Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy
- Jason Alexander - Seinfeld
- Kelsey Grammer - Frasier
- Paul Reiser - Mad About You (Mad About You)
- Michael Richards - Seinfeld
Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy
- Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown
- Helen Hunt - Mad About You (Mad About You)
- Lisa Kudrow - Friends
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld
Best Acting Company - Drama
George Clooney , Anthony Edwards , Julianna Margulies , Gloria Reuben , Eriq La Salle , Sherry Stringfield and Noah Wyle - Emergency Room - The Emergency Room (ER)
- Adam Arkin , Peter Berg , Jayne Brook , Vondie Curtis-Hall , Hector Elizondo , Thomas Gibson , Roxanne Hart , Christine Lahti , Peter MacNicol , Mandy Patinkin and Jamey Sheridan - Chicago Hope - Endstation Hope (Chicago Hope)
- Benjamin Bratt , Jill Hennessy , Steven Hill , S. Epatha Merkerson , Chris Noth , Jerry Orbach and Sam Waterston - Law & Order
- Gordon Clapp , Kim Delaney , Dennis Franz , Gail O'Grady , Sharon Lawrence , James McDaniel , Justine Miceli , Jimmy Smits and Nicholas Turturro - New York Cops - NYPD Blue (NYPD Blue)
- Amy Aquino , Kathy Baker , Don Cheadle , Kelly Connell , Lauren Holly , Fyvush Finkel , Costas Mandylor , Holly Marie Combs , Marlee Matlin , Justin Shenkarow , Tom Skerritt , Adam Wylie and Ray Walston - Picket Fences - Tatort Gartenzaun (Picket Fences)
Best Acting Company - Comedy
Jennifer Aniston , Courteney Cox , Lisa Kudrow , Matt LeBlanc , Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer - Friends
- Christine Baranski , Dedee Pfeiffer , Alan Rosenberg , Cybill Shepherd , Alicia Witt and Tom Wopat - Cybill
- Dan Butler , Peri Gilpin , Kelsey Grammer , Jane Leeves , John Mahoney and David Hyde Pierce - Frasier
- Helen Hunt , Leila Kenzle , John Pankow , Anne Ramsay and Paul Reiser - Mad About You (Mad About You)
- Jason Alexander , Julia Louis-Dreyfus , Michael Richards and Jerry Seinfeld - Seinfeld