The 5th Screen Actors Guild Awards, given on 7 March 1999, honoured the best screen actors of 1998.

Nominees and recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Roberto Benigni - La vita bella (Life Is Beautiful) as Guido Orefice
• Joseph Fiennes - Shakespeare in Love as William Shakespeare
• Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan as Cpt. John H. Miller
• Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters as James Whale
• Nick Nolte - Affliction as Wade Whitehouse

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth I
• Jane Horrocks - Little Voice as Laura Hoff
• Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love as Viola de Lesseps
• Meryl Streep - One True Thing as Kate Gulden
• Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie as Jacqueline du Pr

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• James Coburn - Affliction as Glen Whitehouse
• Robert Duvall - A Civil Action as Jerome Facher
• David Kelly - Waking Ned Devine as Michael O'Sullivan
• Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare in Love as Philip Henslowe
• Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan as Jacob Mitchell

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kathy Bates - Primary Colors as Libby Holden
• Brenda Blethyn - Little Voice as Mari Hoff
• Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love as Queen Elizabeth I
• Rachel Griffiths - Hilary and Jackie as Hilary du Pr
• Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters as Hanna

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• Life Is Beautiful
• Little Voice
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakespeare in Love
  • Ben Affleck
  • Judi Dench
  • Joseph Fiennes
  • Colin Firth
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Geoffrey Rush
  • Imelda Staunton
  • Daniel Brocklebank
  • Tom Wilkinson
• Waking Ned Devine

Television

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

• Charles S. Dutton - Blind Faith as Charles Williams
• James Garner - Legalese as Norman Keane
• Ben Kingsley - The Tale of Sweeney Todd as Sweeney Todd
• Ray Liotta - The Rat Pack as Frank Sinatra
• Christopher Reeve - Rear Window as Jason Kemp
• Stanley Tucci - Winchell as Walter Winchell

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Ann-Margret - Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story as Pamela Harriman
• Stockard Channing - The Baby Dance as Rachel Luckman
• Olympia Dukakis - Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City as Anne Madrigal
• Angelina Jolie - Gia as Gia Marie Carangi
• Mary Steenburgen - About Sarah as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• 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
• Sam Waterston - Law & Order as Jack McCoy

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 Dr. Kathryn Austin
• Julianna Margulies - ER as Carol Hathaway
• Annie Potts - Any Day Now as Mary Elizabeth "M.E." Sims

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jason Alexander - Seinfeld as George Costanza
• Michael J. Fox - Spin City as Mike Flaherty
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier as Frasier Crane
• Peter MacNicol - Ally McBeal as John Cage
• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier as Niles Crane

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Calista Flockhart - Ally McBeal as Ally McBeal
• Lisa Kudrow - Friends as Phoebe Buffay
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld as Elaine Benes
• Amy Pietz - Caroline in the City as Annie Spadaro
• Tracey Ullman - Tracey Takes On... as various characters

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• ER
  • George Clooney
  • Anthony Edwards
  • Laura Innes
  • Alex Kingston
  • Eriq La Salle
  • Julianna Margulies
  • Kellie Martin
  • Gloria Reuben
  • Noah Wyle
• Law & Order
• NYPD Blue
• The Practice
• The X-Files

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Ally McBeal
  • Calista Flockhart
  • Courtney Thorne-Smith
  • Greg Germann
  • Lisa Nicole Carson
  • Jane Krakowski
  • Vonda Shepard
  • Portia de Rossi
  • Lucy Liu
  • Peter MacNicol
  • Gil Bellows
• Frasier
• Friends

In Memoriam

Michael Douglas presented the film clip to the members of the guild who died in the last year: Gene Evans, Dane Clark, Lloyd Bridges, Gene Autry, E.G. Marshall, Dane Clark, Norman Fell, Mary Frann, Huntz Hall, William Frankfather, Phil Hartman, Roy Rogers, Bobby Troup, Persis Khambatta, Gene Siskel, O. Z. Whitehead, Binnie Barnes, Phil Leeds, Leonid Kinskey, Vincent Winter, Patricia Hayes, John Derek, Shari Lewis, Jeanette Nolan, Jean Marais, Dick O'Neill, Alice Faye, Robert Young, Richard Paul, Gene Raymond, Maureen O'Sullivan, Esther Rolle, Jean Marais, Leo Penn, Susan Strasberg, Philip Sterling, Flip Wilson, Roddy McDowell and Frank Sinatra.

Life Achievement Award

• Screen Actors Guild Awards 35th Annual Life Achievement Award:
  • Kirk Douglas

References

• http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-03-09/entertainment/17682202_1_tv-movie-or-miniseries-sag-primary-colors
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tp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/03/08/entertainment/main37909.shtml Surprise at the SAG Awards

• http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/5th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/movies/features/sagawards99.htm
• http://www.thefreelibrary.com/SCREEN+ACTORS+GUILD+AWARDS%3B+A+NIGHT+FOR+%60LOVE'%3B+PALTROW,+BENIGNI...-a083606665

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