2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations (1996)

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• Date of Ceremony: Saturday, February 24, 1996
• For performances seen in: 1995

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Here’s a look at the nominations for the 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• Apollo 13
  Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Bill Paxton and Gary Sinise
• Get Shorty
  Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, David Paymer, Rene Russo and John Travolta
• How To Make an American Quilt
  Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Samantha Mathis, Kate Nelligan, Winona Ryder, Jean Simmons, Lois Smith and 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, E.G. Marshall, David Paymer, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J.T. Walsh and James Woods
• Sense and Sensibility
  Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• E.R.
  George Clooney
• E.R.
  Anthony Edwards
• NYPD Blue
  Dennis Franz
• NYPD Blue
  Jimmy Smits
• The X-Files
  David Duchovny

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Chicago Hope
  Christine Lahti
• E.R.
  Julianna Margulies
• NYPD Blue
  Sharon Lawrence
• Sisters
  Sela Ward
• The X-Files
  Gillian Anderson

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

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

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

• The Good Old Boys
  Tommy Lee Jones
• The Rockford Files
  James Garner
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  Alec Baldwin
• Truman
  Gary Sinise
• The Tuskegee Airman
  Laurence Fishburne

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

• Almost Golden: The Jessica Sacitch Story
  Sela Ward
• Buffalo Girls
  Anjelica Huston
• The Piano Lesson, Hallmark Hall of Fame
  Alfre Woodard
• Serving in Silence
  Glenn Close
• A Woman of Independent Means
  Sally Field