1st Screen Actors Guild Awards

1st SAG Awards

February 25, 1995

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Best Cast - Drama Series:
NYPD Blue

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Best Cast - Comedy Series:
Seinfeld

The 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male 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 Lt. Dan Taylor
• John Turturro - Quiz Show as Herb Stempel

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

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

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

Raul Julia - 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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

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 Castalia

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz

• Hector Elizondo - Chicago Hope as Philip Watters
• 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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

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

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

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 - Roseanne as Roseanne Conner

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

NYPD Blue

Amy Brenneman

David Caruso

Gordon Clapp

Dennis Franz

Vincent Guastaferro

Sharon Lawrence

James McDaniel

Gail O'Grady

Nicholas Turturro

• Chicago Hope
• ER
• Law & Order
• Picket Fences

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Seinfeld

Jason Alexander

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Michael Richards

Jerry Seinfeld

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

In Memoriam

Durning the telecast. it was presented a memorial with pay tribute to the dead actors in the last year:

• Barry Sullivan
• Timothy Carey
• Fernando Rey
• Martha Raye
• Woody Strode
• John Candy
• Tom Ewell
• Lionel Stander
• Dack Rambo
• Macdonald Carey
• Rossano Brazzi
• David Wayne
• Harriet Nelson
• Peter Cushing
• Gilbert Roland

• Dinah Shore
• Danitra Vance
• Cab Calloway
• Frances Heflin
• Giulietta Masina
• Donald Pleasence
• Pedro Zamora
• Mildred Natwick
• Noah Beery, Jr.
• Burt Lancaster
• Raul Julia
• Jessica Tandy
• George Peppard

Life Achievement Award

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

References

• http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/inaugural-screen-actors-guild-awards
• http://www.preems.com/awards/1/42.htm