1st Screen Actors Guild Awards

Award ceremony for performances of 1994

1st Screen Actors Guild Awards

Awarded for| Outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances
Date| February 25, 1995 (1995-02-25)
Location| Universal Studios, Stage 12
Los Angeles, California
Country| United States
Presented by| Screen Actors Guild
First award| 1995
Website| www.sagawards.org
Television/radio coverage
Network| NBC
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The Inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards aired on NBC from Stage 12 at Universal Studios Hollywood, on February 25, 1995. Unveiled during this evening for the first time was the Guild's new award statuette, The Actor, as well as the first awards for ensembles in drama series and comedy series which honor all of the actors who are the regulars in television series. From this auspicious beginning the Screen Actors Guild Awards has been embraced as one of the most prestigious in the entertainment industry.[1]

## Winners and nominees

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Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Tom Hanks, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role winner Jodie Foster, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winner Martin Landau, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role winner Dianne Wiest, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role winner Raúl Juliá, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winner Joanne Woodward, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winner Dennis Franz, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series winner Kathy Baker, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series winner Jason Alexander, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series winner Helen Hunt, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series winner

### Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

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* George Burns

### Film

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Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

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Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump

* Morgan Freeman – The Shawshank Redemption as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
* Paul Newman – Nobody's Fool as Donald "Sully" Sullivan
* Tim Robbins – The Shawshank Redemption as Andy Dufresne
* John Travolta – Pulp Fiction as Vincent Vega

Jodie Foster – Nell as Nell Kellty

* Jessica Lange – Blue Sky as Carly Marshall
* Meg Ryan – When a Man Loves a Woman as Alice Green
* Susan Sarandon – The Client as Regina "Reggie" Love
* Meryl Streep – The River Wild as Gail Hartman

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Martin Landau – Ed Wood as Bela Lugosi

* Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction as Jules Winnfield
* Chazz Palminteri – Bullets over Broadway as Cheech
* Gary Sinise – Forrest Gump as Lieutenant Dan Taylor
* John Turturro – Quiz Show as Herb Stempel

Dianne Wiest – Bullets over Broadway as Helen Sinclair

* Jamie Lee Curtis – True Lies as Helen Tasker
* Sally Field – Forrest Gump as Mrs. Gump
* Uma Thurman – Pulp Fiction as Mia Wallace
* Robin Wright – Forrest Gump as Jenny Curran-Gump

### Television

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

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Raúl Juliá – The Burning Season as Francisco "Chico" Mendes

* James Garner – The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. as Jim Rockford
* John Malkovich – Heart of Darkness as Kurtz
* Gary Sinise – The Stand as Stu Redman
* Forest Whitaker – The Enemy Within as Col. Mackenzie "Mac" Casey

Joanne Woodward – Breathing Lessons as Maggie Moran

* Katharine Hepburn – One Christmas as Cornelia Beaumont
* Diane Keaton – Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight as Amelia Earhart
* Sissy Spacek – A Place for Annie as Susan Lansing
* Cicely Tyson – Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as Castralia, Marsden Family House Slave / Maid

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz

* Héctor Elizondo – Chicago Hope as Philip Waters
* Mandy Patinkin – Chicago Hope as Jeffrey Geiger
* Tom Skerritt – Picket Fences as Jimmy Brock
* Patrick Stewart – Star Trek: The Next Generation as Jean-Luc Picard

Kathy Baker – Picket Fences as Jill Brock

* Swoosie Kurtz – Sisters as Alexandra "Alex" Reed Halsey Barker
* Angela Lansbury – Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher
* Jane Seymour – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn
* Cicely Tyson – Sweet Justice as Carrie Grace Battle

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

Jason Alexander – Seinfeld as George Costanza

* John Goodman – Roseanne as Dan Conner
* Kelsey Grammer – Frasier as Frasier Crane
* David Hyde Pierce – Frasier as Niles Crane
* Paul Reiser – Mad About You as Paul Buchman

Helen Hunt – Mad About You as Jamie Buchman

* Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown as Murphy Brown
* Ellen DeGeneres – Ellen as Ellen Morgan
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Seinfeld as Elaine Benes
* Roseanne Barr – Roseanne as Roseanne Conner

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

* Chicago Hope – Adam Arkin, Héctor Elizondo, Thomas Gibson, Roxanne Hart, Peter MacNicol, E. G. Marshall, and Mandy Patinkin
* ER – George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, Sherry Stringfield, and Noah Wyle
* Law & Order – Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, and Sam Waterston
* Picket Fences – Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Holly Marie Combs, Kelly Connell, Robert Cornthwaite, Fyvush Finkel, Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor, Justin Shenkarow, Tom Skerritt, Leigh Taylor-Young, Ray Walston, and Adam Wylie

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

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

* Frasier – Peri Gilpin, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, and David Hyde Pierce
* Mad About You – Helen Hunt, Leila Kenzle, Richard Kind, Lisa Kudrow, John Pankow, Anne Ramsay, and Paul Reiser
* Murphy Brown – Candice Bergen, Pat Corley, Faith Ford, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, and Grant Shaud
* Northern Exposure – Darren E. Burrows, John Corbett, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Cynthia Geary, Elaine Miles, Rob Morrow, Peg Phillips, Teri Polo, Paul Provenza, and Janine Turner

## References

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1. ^ "The Inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards - 1995". Screen Actors Guild Awards. SAG-AFTRA. Retrieved 18 April 2015.

## External links

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* The Inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards
* 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards

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