2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards (1996)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Apollo 13 - Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan, Gary Sinise
Sense and Sensibility - Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet
Get Shorty - Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, David Paymer, Rene Russo, John Travolta
How to Make an American Quilt - Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Samantha Mathis, Kate Nelligan, Winona Ryder, Jean Simmons, Lois Smith, Alfre Woodard
Nixon - Joan Allen, Brian Bedford, Powers Boothe, Kevin Dunn, Fyvush Finkel, Annabeth Gish, Tony Goldwyn, Larry Hagman, Ed Harris, Edward Herrmann, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Madeline Kahn, EG Marshall, David Paymer, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino,

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

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

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

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

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

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

ER - George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, Gloria Reuben, Sherry Stringfield, Noah Wyle
Chicago Hope - Adam Arkin, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Hector Elizondo, Thomas Gibson, Roxanne Hart, Christine Lahti, Peter MacNicol, Mandy Patinkin, Jamey Sheridan
Law & Order - Benjamin Bratt, Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston
NYPD Blue - Gordon Clapp, Kim Delaney, Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Justine Miceli, Gail O'Grady, Jimmy Smits, Nicholas Turturro
Picket Fences - Amy Aquino, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Kelly Connell, Fyvush Finkel, Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor, Marlee Matlin, Justin Shenkarow, Tom Skerritt, Ray Walston, Adam Wylie

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Friends - Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer
Cybill - Christine Baranski, Dedee Pfeiffer, Alan Rosenberg, Cybill Shepherd, Alicia Witt, Tom Wopat
Frasier - Dan Butler, Peri Gilpin, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, David Hyde Pierce
Mad About You - Helen Hunt, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow, Anne Ramsay, Paul Reiser
Seinfeld - Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld

Life Achievement Award

Robert Redford