1e Screen Actors Guild Awards

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
  • Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
  • Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool
  • Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption
  • John Travolta - Pulp Fiction

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Jodie Foster - Nell
  • Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
  • Meg Ryan - When a Man Loves a Woman
  • Susan Sarandon - The Client
  • Meryl Streep - The River Wild

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Martin Landau - Ed Wood
  • Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
  • Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway
  • Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump
  • John Turturro - Quiz Show

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
  • Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies
  • Sally Field - Forrest Gump
  • Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
  • Robin Wright - Forrest Gump

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• NYPD Blue
  • Chicago Hope
  • ER
  • Law & Order
  • Picket Fences

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue
  • Héctor Elizondo - Chicago Hope
  • Mandy Patinkin - Chicago Hope
  • Tom Skerritt - Picket Fences
  • Patrick Stewart - Star Trek: The Next Generation

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Kathy Baker - Picket Fences
  • Swoosie Kurtz - Sisters
  • Angela Lansbury - Murder, She Wrote
  • Jane Seymour - Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
  • Cicely Tyson - Sweet Justice

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Seinfeld
  • Frasier
  • Mad About You
  • Murphy Brown
  • Northern Exposure

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jason Alexander - Seinfeld
  • John Goodman - Roseanne
  • Kelsey Grammer - Frasier
  • David Hyde Pierce - Frasier
  • Paul Reiser - Mad About You

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Helen Hunt - Mad About You
  • Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown
  • Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld
  • Roseanne - Roseanne

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

• Raúl Juliá - The Burning Season
  • James Garner - The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
  • John Malkovich - Heart of Darkness
  • Gary Sinise - Stephen King's The Stand
  • Forest Whitaker - The Enemy Within

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

• Joanne Woodward - Breathing Lessons
  • Katharine Hepburn - One Christmas
  • Diane Keaton - Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
  • Sissy Spacek - A Place for Annie
  • Cicely Tyson - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All