2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards

Outstanding Leading Actor

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 Leading Actress

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 Supporting Actor

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 Supporting Actress

Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility

• Stockard Channing – Smoke
• Anjelica Huston – The Crossing Guard
• Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite
• Mare Winningham – Georgia

Outstanding 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

Outstanding Actor – Drama Series

Anthony Edwards – ER

• George Clooney, ER
• Dennis Franz, NYPD Blue
• Jimmy Smits, NYPD Blue
• David Duchovny, The X Files

Outstanding Actor – Comedy Series

David Hyde Pierce – Frasier

• Kelsey Grammer, Frasier
• Paul Reiser, Mad About You
• Jason Alexander, Seinfeld
• Michael Richards, Seinfeld

Outstanding Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Gary Sinise – Truman

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

Outstanding Actress – Drama Series

Gillian Anderson – The X-Files

• Christine Lahti, Chicago Hope
• Jane Seymour, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
• Kim Delaney, NYPD Blue
• Della Reese, Touched by an Angel

Outstanding Actress – Comedy Series

Christine Baranski – Cybill

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

Outstanding Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

Alfre Woodard – The Piano Lesson

• Sally Field, A Woman of Independent Means
• Sela Ward, Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
• Anjelica Huston, Buffalo Girls
• Glenn Close, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Outstanding Cast – Drama Series

ER

George Clooney

Anthony Edwards

Eriq La Salle

Julianna Margulies

Sherry Stringfield

Noah Wyle

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

Outstanding Cast – Comedy Series

Friends

Jennifer Aniston

Courteney Cox

Lisa Kudrow

Matt LeBlanc

Matthew Perry

David Schwimmer

• Cybill
• Frasier
• Mad About You
• Seinfeld