1st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Results and Commentary (1995)

Actor Statuette
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• Date of Ceremony: Saturday, February 25, 1995
• For performances seen in: 1994

• Nominations List

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The inaugural edition of the Screen Actors Guild Awards® were handed out at Universal Studio’s Stage 12 and aired live on the NBC network on February 25, 1995.

The top film awards went to Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump and Jodie Foster for Nell.

The new awards show recognized the work of ensembles and NYPD Blue and Seinfeld went home with those honors, while Dennis Franz, Kathy Baker, Jason Alexander and Helen Hunt took home individual series honors.

The always lovely Ann-Margret presented George Burns with the first televised presentation of the Life Achievement Award, the Guild’s highest honor.

Results

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Forrest Gump
  Tom Hanks

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Nell
  Jodie Foster

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Ed Wood
  Martin Landau

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Bullets over Broadway
  Dianne Wiest

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• NYPD Blue
  Gordon Clapp, Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Gail O'Grady, Jimmy Smits and Nicholas Turturro

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• NYPD Blue
  Dennis Franz

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Picket Fences
  Kathy Baker

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Seinfeld
  Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jerry Seinfeld

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Seinfeld
  Jason Alexander

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Mad About You
  Helen Hunt

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

• The Burning Season
  Raul Julia

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

• Breathing Lesson
  Joanne Woodward

31st Life Achievement Award

• George Burns