2e Screen Actors Guild Awards

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• Apollo 13
  • Get Shorty
  • How to Make an American Quilt
  • Nixon
  • Sense and Sensibility

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
  • Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
  • James Earl Jones - Cry, the Beloved Country
  • Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
  • Massimo Troisi - The Postman (Il Postino)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking
  • Joan Allen - Nixon
  • Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
  • Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County
  • Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Ed Harris - Apollo 13
  • Kevin Bacon - Murder in the First
  • Kenneth Branagh - Othello
  • Don Cheadle - Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility
  • Stockard Channing - Smoke
  • Anjelica Huston - The Crossing Guard
  • Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
  • Mare Winningham - Georgia

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Anthony Edwards - ER
  • George Clooney - ER
  • David Duchovny - The X-Files
  • Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue
  • Jimmy Smits - NYPD Blue

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Gillian Anderson - The X-Files
  • Christine Lahti - Chicago Hope
  • Sharon Lawrence - NYPD Blue
  • Julianna Margulies - ER
  • Sela Ward - Sisters

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Friends
  • Cybill
  • Frasier
  • Mad About You
  • Seinfeld

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier
  • Jason Alexander - Seinfeld
  • Kelsey Grammer - Frasier
  • Paul Reiser - Mad About You
  • Michael Richards - Seinfeld

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Christine Baranski - Cybill
  • Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown
  • Helen Hunt - Mad About You
  • Lisa Kudrow - Friends
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld

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

• Gary Sinise - Truman
  • Alec Baldwin - A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Laurence Fishburne - The Tuskegee Airmen
  • James Garner - The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
  • Tommy Lee Jones - The Good Old Boys

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

• Alfre Woodard - The Piano Lesson, Hallmark Hall of Fame
  • Glenn Close - Serving in Silence
  • Sally Field - A Woman of Independent Means
  • Anjelica Huston - Buffalo Girls
  • Sela Ward - Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story