3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards

3rd SAG Awards

1997

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Best Cast - Motion Picture:
The Birdcage

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Best Cast - Drama Series:
ER

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Best Cast - Comedy Series:
Seinfeld

The 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards were given in March, 1997.

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire as Jerry Maguire
• Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient as Count László de Almásy
• Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
• Geoffrey Rush - Shine as David Helfgott
• Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade as Karl Childers

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies as Cynthia Rose Purley
• Diane Keaton - Marvin's Room as Bessie
• Frances McDormand - Fargo as Marge Gunderson
• Gena Rowlands - Unhook the Stars as Mildred
• Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient as Katharine Clifton

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Hank Azaria - The Birdcage as Agador
• Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell
• Nathan Lane - The Birdcage as Albert
• William H. Macy - Fargo as Jerry Lundegaard
• Noah Taylor - Shine as David Helfgott

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Lauren Bacall - The Mirror Has Two Faces as Hannah Morgan
• Juliette Binoche - The English Patient as Hana
• Marisa Tomei - Unhook the Stars as Monica
• Gwen Verdon - Marvin's Room as Ruth
• Renée Zellweger - Jerry Maguire as Dorothy Boyd

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• The Birdcage

Hank Azaria

Calista Flockhart

Dan Futterman

Gene Hackman

Nathan Lane

Dianne Wiest

Robin Williams

• The English Patient
• Marvin's Room
• Shine
• Sling Blade

Television

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

• Armand Assante - Gotti as John Gotti
• Beau Bridges - Hidden in America as Bill Januson
• Robert Duvall - The Man Who Captured Eichmann as Adolf Eichmann
• Ed Harris - Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter
• Alan Rickman - Rasputin as Grigori Rasputin

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Anne Bancroft - Homecoming as Abigail Tillerman
• Kathy Bates - The Late Shift as Helen Kushnick
• Stockard Channing - An Unexpected Family as Barbara Whitney
• Jena Malone - Bastard Out of Carolina as Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright
• Cicely Tyson - The Road to Galveston as Jordan Roosevelt

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• George Clooney - ER as Douglas "Doug" Ross
• David Duchovny - The X Files as Fox Mulder
• Anthony Edwards - ER as Mark Greene
• Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue as Sgt. Andy Sipowicz
• Jimmy Smits - NYPD Blue as Det. Bobby Simone

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Gillian Anderson - The X-Files as Dana Scully
• Kim Delaney - NYPD Blue as Det. Diane Russell
• Christine Lahti - Chicago Hope as Kathryn Austin
• Della Reese - Touched by an Angel as Tess
• Jane Seymour - Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jason Alexander - Seinfeld as George Costanza
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier as Frasier Crane
• John Lithgow - 3rd Rock from the Sun as Dick Solomon
• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier as Niles Crane
• Michael Richards - Seinfeld as Cosmo Kramer

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Christine Baranski - Cybill as Maryann Thorpe
• Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen as Ellen Morgan
• Helen Hunt - Mad About You as Jamie Buchman
• Kristen Johnston - 3rd Rock from the Sun as Sally Solomon
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld as Elaine Benes

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• Chicago Hope
• ER

George Clooney

Anthony Edwards

Laura Innes

Eriq La Salle

Julianna Margulies

Gloria Reuben

Sherry Stringfield

Noah Wyle

• Law & Order
• NYPD Blue
• The X Files

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Frasier
• Mad About You
• Remember WENN
• Seinfeld

Jason Alexander

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Michael Richards

Jerry Seinfeld

In Memoriam

It was presented a memorial to the SAG's members who died durning last year:

• Dorothy Lamour
• Tupac Shakur
• Jo Van Fleet
• Dana Hill
• Howard E. Rollins Jr.
• Whit Bissell
• Ray Combs
• Bibi Besch
• Brigitte Helm
• Jeremy Sinden
• Ben Johnson
• Natividad Vacío
• Jon Pertwee
• Marcello Mastrioanni
• Virgina Christine
• Vince Edwards
• Vito Scotti

• Joanne Dru
• Claudette Colbert
• Greer Garson
• Robert Ridgely
• Greg Morris
• Morey Amsterdam
• Joe Seneca
• Lew Ayres
• Jack Weston
• Danny Boyle
• Michael Fox
• Gene Nelson
• Bob Hannah
• Sheldon Leonard
• Larry Gates
• Jason Bernard
• Gene Kelly
• George Burns

Life Achievement Award

• Screen Actors Guild Awards 33rd Annual Life Achievement Award:
  • Angela Lansbury