7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Results and Commentary (2001)

Actor Statuette
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• Date of Ceremony: Sunday, March 11, 2001
• For performances seen in: 2000

• Nominations List

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The 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards had a theme of “Classic Hollywood” when they were presented at the Shrine on Sunday, March 11, 2001.

Traffic took home the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In fact it was a double whammy for Steven Soderbergh-directed performances as Benicio Del Toro’s Traffic performance earned him Male Actor in a Leading Role, while Julia Roberts went home with Female Actor in a Leading Role for Erin Brockovich.

On the TV side, top winners included The West Wing and Will & Grace.

Whoopi Goldberg presented the Life Achievement Award to husband and wife Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Famous as much for their civil rights as for their careers, the pair eloquently spoke of how actors were artists, workers, image makers and peacemakers.

“We are artists also, and workers above all. We are image makers. Why can’t we image makers become peacemakers, too. Why cannot we, in such a time as this, use all the magic of our vaunted powers to lift the pistol from the schoolboy’s backpack? 
And replace it with bright images of peace, with images of hope and faith in humankind. Of life lit by some large vision of goodness and beauty and truth?” – Ruby Dee

Results

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• Traffic
  Steven Bauer, Benjamin Bratt, James Brolin, Don Cheadle, Erika Christensen, Clifton Collins Jr., Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas, Miguel Ferrer, Albert Finney, Topher Grace, Luis Guzman, Amy Irving, Tomas Milian, D.W. Moffett, Dennis Quaid, Peter Reigert, Jacob Vargas and Catherine Zeta-Jones

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Traffic
  Benicio Del Toro

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Erin Brockovich
  Julia Roberts

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Erin Brockovich
  Albert Finney

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Chocolat
  Judi Dench

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• The West Wing
  Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Moira Kelly, Rob Lowe, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, Martin Sheen, John Spencer and Bradley Whitford

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• The West Wing
  Martin Sheen

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• The West Wing
  Allison Janney

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Will & Grace
  Sean Hayes, Eric McCormack, Debra Messing and Megan Mullally

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Ally McBeal
  Robert Downey Jr.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Sex and the City
  Sarah Jessica Parker

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

• Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
  Brian Dennehy

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

• If These Walls Could Talk 2
  Vanessa Redgrave

37th Life Achievement Award

• Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee