2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards (1996)

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

	Apollo 13 - Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan, and Gary Sinise
	Get Shorty - Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, David Paymer, Rene Russo, and John Travolta
	How to Make an American Quilt - Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Samantha Mathis, Kate Nelligan, Winona Ryder, Jean Simmons, Lois Smith, and Alfre Woodard
	Nixon - Joan Allen, Brian Bedford, Powers Boothe, Kevin Dunn, Fyvush Finkel, Annabeth Gish, Tony Goldwyn, Larry Hagman, Ed Harris, Edward Herrmann, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Madeline Kahn, E. G. Marshall, David Paymer, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J. T. Walsh, and James Woods
	Sense and Sensibility - Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, and Kate Winslet

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

	Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson
	Anthony Hopkins - Nixon as Richard Nixon
	James Earl Jones - Cry, the Beloved Country as Reverend Stephen Kumalo
	Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet
	Massimo Troisi - Il Postino: The Postman as Mario Ruoppolo

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

	Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean
	Joan Allen - Nixon as Pat Nixon
	Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas as Sera
	Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
	Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

	Ed Harris - Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
	Kevin Bacon - Murder in the First as Henri Young
	Kenneth Branagh - Othello as Iago
	Don Cheadle - Devil in a Blue Dress as Mouse Alexander
	Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects as Roger "Verbal" Kint

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

	Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood
	Stockard Channing - Smoke as Ruby McNutt
	Anjelica Huston - The Crossing Guard as Mary
	Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite as Linda Ash
	Mare Winningham - Georgia as Georgia Flood

Television

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

	ER - George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, Gloria Reuben, Sherry Stringfield, and Noah Wyle
	Chicago Hope - Adam Arkin, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Héctor Elizondo, Thomas Gibson, Roxanne Hart, Christine Lahti, Peter MacNicol, Mandy Patinkin, and Jamey Sheridan
	Law & Order - Benjamin Bratt, Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, and Sam Waterston
	NYPD Blue - Gordon Clapp, Kim Delaney, Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Justine Miceli, Gail O'Grady, Jimmy Smits, and Nicholas Turturro
	Picket Fences - Amy Aquino, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Holly Marie Combs, Kelly Connell, Fyvush Finkel, Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor, Marlee Matlin, Justin Shenkarow, Tom Skerritt, Ray Walston, and Adam Wylie

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

	Anthony Edwards - ER as Mark Greene
	George Clooney - ER as Doug Ross
	David Duchovny - The X-Files as Fox Mulder
	Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz
	Jimmy Smits - NYPD Blue as Bobby Simone

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

	Gillian Anderson - The X-Files as Dana Scully
	Christine Lahti - Chicago Hope as Kathryn Austin
	Sharon Lawrence - NYPD Blue as Sylvia Costas
	Julianna Margulies - ER as Carol Hathaway
	Sela Ward - Sisters as Theodora "Teddy" Reed Margolis Falconer Sorenson

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

	Friends - Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer
	Cybill - Christine Baranski, Dedee Pfeiffer, Alan Rosenberg, Cybill Shepherd, Alicia Witt, and Tom Wopat
	Frasier - Dan Butler, Peri Gilpin, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, and David Hyde Pierce
	Mad About You - Helen Hunt, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow, Anne Ramsay, and Paul Reiser
	Seinfeld - Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, and Jerry Seinfeld

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

	David Hyde Pierce - Frasier as Niles Crane
	Jason Alexander - Seinfeld as George Costanza
	Kelsey Grammer - Frasier as Frasier Crane
	Paul Reiser - Mad About You as Paul Buchman
	Michael Richards - Seinfeld as Cosmo Kramer

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

	Christine Baranski - Cybill as Maryann Thorpe
	Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown as Murphy Brown
	Helen Hunt - Mad About You as Jamie Buchman
	Lisa Kudrow - Friends as Phoebe Buffay
	Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld as Elaine Benes

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

	Gary Sinise - Truman as Harry S. Truman
	Alec Baldwin - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski
	Laurence Fishburne - The Tuskegee Airmen as Hannibal Lee
	James Garner - The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise as Jim Rockford
	Tommy Lee Jones - The Good Old Boys as Hewey Calloway

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

	Alfre Woodard - The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles
	Glenn Close - Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Margarethe Cammermeyer
	Sally Field - A Woman of Independent Means as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
	Anjelica Huston - Buffalo Girls as Calamity Jane
	Sela Ward - Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story as Jessica Savitch

Special Awards

Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

Robert Redford