The 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented on 24 February 1996 in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Nominees and Recipients

Film

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 Kumalo
• Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet
• Massimo Troisi - The Postman (Il postino) as Mario Ruoppolo

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Joan Allen - Nixon as Pat Nixon
• Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean
• 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

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• 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
• Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• Apollo 13

Kevin Bacon

Tom Hanks

Ed Harris

Bill Paxton

Kathleen Quinlan

Gary Sinise

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

Television

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

• 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
• Gary Sinise - Truman as Harry S. Truman

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Glenn Close - Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Col. 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
• Alfre Woodard - The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• George Clooney - ER as Douglas "Doug" Ross
• David Duchovny - The X-Files as Fox Mulder
• Anthony Edwards - ER as Mark Greene
• Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue as Sgt. Andy Sipowicz
• Jimmy Smits - NYPD Blue as Det. 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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jason Alexander - Seinfeld as Ross Geller
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier as Frasier Crane
• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier as Niles 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 an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• Chicago Hope
• ER

George Clooney

Anthony Edwards

Eriq La Salle

Julianna Margulies

Sherry Stringfield

Noah Wyle

• Law & Order
• NYPD Blue
• Picket Fences

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Friends

Jennifer Aniston

Courteney Cox

Lisa Kudrow

Matt LeBlanc

Matthew Perry

David Schwimmer

• Seinfeld
• Cybill
• Frasier
• Mad About You

In Memoriam

It was presented a tribute to the members of the SAG's who died last year: Rick Aviles, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ed Flanders, Eva Gabor, Michael V. Gazzo, Alexander Godunov, Gary Crosby, Harry Guardino, Phil Harris, Michael Hordern, Burl Ives, Patric Knowles, Priscilla Lane, Viveca Lindfors, Ida Lupino, Butterfly McQueen, John Megna, Elizabeth Montgomery, Donald Pleasence, Ginger Rogers, Madge Sinclair, Irene Tedrow, Lana Turner, Williard Waterman, David Wayne and Mary Wickes

Life Achievement Award

• Screen Actors Guild Awards 32nd Annual Life Achievement Award:
  • Robert Redford

References

• http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/2nd-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards

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