The 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
• Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
• Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool
• Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption
• John Travolta - Pulp Fiction

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Jodie Foster - Nell
• Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
• Meg Ryan - When a Man Loves a Woman
• Susan Sarandon - The Client
• Meryl Streep - The River Wild

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
• Martin Landau - Ed Wood
• Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway
• Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump
• John Turturro - Quiz Show

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies
• Sally Field - Forrest Gump
• Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
• Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
• Robin Wright - Forrest Gump

Television

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

• James Garner - The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
• Raul Julia - The Burning Season
• John Malkovich - Heart of Darkness
• Gary Sinise - The Stand
• Forest Whitaker - The Enemy Within

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Katharine Hepburn - One Christmas
• Diane Keaton - Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
• Sissy Spacek - A Place for Annie
• Cicely Tyson - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
• Joanne Woodward - Breathing Lessons

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Hector Elizondo - Chicago Hope
• Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue
• Mandy Patinkin - Chicago Hope
• Tom Skerritt - Picket Fences
• Patrick Stewart - Star Trek: The Next Generation

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Kathy Baker - Picket Fences
• Swoosie Kurtz - Sisters
• Angela Lansbury - Murder, She Wrote
• Jane Seymour - Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
• Cicely Tyson - Sweet Justice

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jason Alexander - Seinfeld
• John Goodman - Roseanne
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier
• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier
• Paul Reiser - Mad About You

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown
• Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen
• Helen Hunt - Mad About You
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld
• Roseanne - Roseanne

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• Chicago Hope
• ER
• Law & Order
• NYPD Blue

Amy Brenneman

David Caruso

Gordon Clapp

Dennis Franz

Vincent Guastaferro

Sharon Lawrence

James McDaniel

Gail O'Grady

Nicholas Turturro

• Picket Fences

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Frasier
• Mad About You
• Murphy Brown
• Northern Exposure
• Seinfeld

Jason Alexander

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Michael Richards

Jerry Seinfeld

Life Achievement Award

• Screen Actors Guild Awards 31st Annual Life Achievement Award:
  • George Burns