The 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards were given in March, 1997.

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire as Jerry Maguire
• Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient as Count L szl de Alm sy
• Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
• Geoffrey Rush - Shine as David Helfgott
• Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade as Karl Childers

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies as Cynthia Rose Purley
• Diane Keaton - Marvin's Room as Bessie
• Frances McDormand - Fargo as Marge Gunderson
• Gena Rowlands - Unhook the Stars as Mildred
• Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient as Katharine Clifton

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Hank Azaria - The Birdcage as Agador
• Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell
• Nathan Lane - The Birdcage as Albert
• William H. Macy - Fargo as Jerry Lundegaard
• Noah Taylor - Shine as David Helfgott

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Lauren Bacall - The Mirror Has Two Faces as Hannah Morgan
• Juliette Binoche - The English Patient as Hana
• Marisa Tomei - Unhook the Stars as Monica
• Gwen Verdon - Marvin's Room as Ruth
• Ren e Zellweger - Jerry Maguire as Dorothy Boyd

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• The Birdcage

Hank Azaria

Calista Flockhart

Dan Futterman

Gene Hackman

Nathan Lane

Dianne Wiest

Robin Williams

Francesca Cruz

Dan Futterman

Grant Heslov

Kirby Mitchell

James Lally

Luca Tommassini

Luis Camacho

Andre Fuentes

Dante Lamar Henderson

Scott Kaske

Kevin Stea

Tim Kelleher

Ann Cusack

Stanley DeSantis

J. Roy Helland

Anthony Giaimo

David Sage

Mike Kinsley

Tony Snow

Dorothy Constantine

Trina McGee-Davis

Barry Nolan

Amy Powell

Ron Pitts

James Hill

Mary Major

Steven Porfido

John Pontrelli

Herschel Sparber

Brian Reddy

Jim Jansen

Al Rodrigo

Marjorie Lovett

Sylvia Short

James H. Morrison

Rabbi Robert M Baruch

• The English Patient
• Marvin's Room
• Shine
• Sling Blade

Television

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

• Armand Assante - Gotti as John Gotti
• Beau Bridges - Hidden in America as Bill Januson
• Robert Duvall - The Man Who Captured Eichmann as Adolf Eichmann
• Ed Harris - Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter
• Alan Rickman - Rasputin as Grigori Rasputin

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Anne Bancroft - Homecoming as Abigail Tillerman
• Kathy Bates - The Late Shift as Helen Kushnick
• Stockard Channing - An Unexpected Family as Barbara Whitney
• Jena Malone - Bastard Out of Carolina as Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright
• Cicely Tyson - The Road to Galveston as Jordan Roosevelt

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
• Kim Delaney - NYPD Blue as Det. Diane Russell
• Christine Lahti - Chicago Hope as Kathryn Austin
• Della Reese - Touched by an Angel as Tess
• Jane Seymour - Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jason Alexander - Seinfeld as George Costanza
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier as Frasier Crane
• John Lithgow - 3rd Rock from the Sun as Dick Solomon
• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier as Niles Crane
• Michael Richards - Seinfeld as Cosmo Kramer

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Christine Baranski - Cybill as Maryann Thorpe
• Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen as Ellen Morgan
• Helen Hunt - Mad About You as Jamie Buchman
• Kristen Johnston - 3rd Rock from the Sun as Sally Solomon
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld as Elaine Benes

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• Chicago Hope
• ER

George Clooney

Anthony Edwards

Laura Innes

Eriq La Salle

Julianna Margulies

Gloria Reuben

Sherry Stringfield

Noah Wyle

• Law & Order
• NYPD Blue
• The X Files

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Frasier
• Mad About You
• Remember WENN
• Seinfeld

Jason Alexander

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Michael Richards

Jerry Seinfeld

In Memoriam

It was presented a memorial to the SAG's members who died durning last year: Dorothy Lamour, Whit Bissell, Ben Johnson, Jack Weston, Dana Hill, Ray Combs, Bibi Besch, Greg, Jeremy Sinden, Ben Johnson, Natividad Vac o, Jon Pertwee, Marcello Mastrioanni, Virgina Christine, Vince Edwards, Vito Scotti, Joanne Dru, Claudette Colbert, Greer Garson, Robert Ridgely, Greg Morris, Morey Amsterdam, Joe Seneca, Lew Ayres, Jack Weston, Danny Boyle, Michael Fox, Gene Nelson, Bob Hannah, Sheldon Leonard, Larry Gates, Jason Bernard, Gene Kelly and George Burns

Life Achievement Award

• Screen Actors Guild Awards 33rd Annual Life Achievement Award:
  • Angela Lansbury

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