5th Screen Actors Guild Awards

5th SAG Awards

March 7, 1999

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Best Cast - Motion Picture:
Shakespeare in Love

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Best Cast - Drama Series:
ER

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Best Cast - Comedy Series:
Ally McBeal

The 5th Screen Actors Guild Awards, given on 7 March 1999, honoured the best screen actors of 1998.

Nominees and recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Roberto Benigni - La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) as Guido Orefice
• Joseph Fiennes - Shakespeare in Love as William Shakespeare
• Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan as Cpt. John H. Miller
• Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters as James Whale
• Nick Nolte - Affliction as Wade Whitehouse

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth I
• Jane Horrocks - Little Voice as Laura Hoff
• Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love as Viola de Lesseps
• Meryl Streep - One True Thing as Kate Gulden
• Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie as Jacqueline du Pré

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• James Coburn - Affliction as Glen Whitehouse
• Robert Duvall - A Civil Action as Jerome Facher
• David Kelly - Waking Ned Devine as Michael O'Sullivan
• Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare in Love as Philip Henslowe
• Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan as Jacob Mitchell

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kathy Bates - Primary Colors as Libby Holden
• Brenda Blethyn - Little Voice as Mari Hoff
• Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love as Queen Elizabeth I
• Rachel Griffiths - Hilary and Jackie as Hilary du Pré
• Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters as Hanna

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• Life Is Beautiful
• Little Voice
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakespeare in Love
  • Ben Affleck
  • Judi Dench
  • Joseph Fiennes
  • Colin Firth
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Geoffrey Rush
  • Imelda Staunton
  • Daniel Brocklebank
  • Tom Wilkinson
• Waking Ned Devine

Television

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

• Charles S. Dutton - Blind Faith as Charles Williams
• James Garner - Legalese as Norman Keane
• Ben Kingsley - The Tale of Sweeney Todd as Sweeney Todd
• Ray Liotta - The Rat Pack as Frank Sinatra
• Christopher Reeve - Rear Window as Jason Kemp
• Stanley Tucci - Winchell as Walter Winchell

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Ann-Margret - Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story as Pamela Harriman
• Stockard Channing - The Baby Dance as Rachel Luckman
• Olympia Dukakis - Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City as Anne Madrigal
• Angelina Jolie - Gia as Gia Marie Carangi
• Mary Steenburgen - About Sarah as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• 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
• Sam Waterston - Law & Order as Jack McCoy

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 Dr. Kathryn Austin
• Julianna Margulies - ER as Carol Hathaway
• Annie Potts - Any Day Now as Mary Elizabeth "M.E." Sims

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jason Alexander - Seinfeld as George Costanza
• Michael J. Fox - Spin City as Mike Flaherty
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier as Frasier Crane
• Peter MacNicol - Ally McBeal as John Cage
• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier as Niles Crane

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Calista Flockhart - Ally McBeal as Ally McBeal
• Lisa Kudrow - Friends as Phoebe Buffay
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Seinfeld as Elaine Benes
• Amy Pietz - Caroline in the City as Annie Spadaro
• Tracey Ullman - Tracey Takes On... as various characters

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• ER
  • George Clooney
  • Anthony Edwards
  • Laura Innes
  • Alex Kingston
  • Eriq La Salle
  • Julianna Margulies
  • Kellie Martin
  • Gloria Reuben
  • Noah Wyle
• Law & Order
• NYPD Blue
• The Practice
• The X-Files

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Ally McBeal
  • Calista Flockhart
  • Courtney Thorne-Smith
  • Greg Germann
  • Lisa Nicole Carson
  • Jane Krakowski
  • Vonda Shepard
  • Portia de Rossi
  • Lucy Liu
  • Peter MacNicol
  • Gil Bellows
• Frasier
• Friends

In Memoriam

Michael Douglas presented the film clip to the members of the guild who died in the last year:

• Lloyd Bridges
• Dane Clark
• Maide Norman
• Gene Autry
• Douglas Fowley
• Dick O'Neill
• Norman Fell
• John Bloom
• Huntz Hall
• E. G. Marshall
• Jeanette Nolan
• Roy Rogers
• Bobby Troump
• Susan Strasberg
• Mary Frann
• O. Z. Whitehead

• Binnie Barnes
• Phil Leeds
• Persis Khambata
• Vincent Winter
• Patricia Hayes
• John Derek
• Flip Wilson
• Richard Kiley
• Jean Marais
• Esther Rolle
• Alice Faye
• Robert Young
• Roddy McDowall
• Gene Raymond
• Maureen O'Sullivan
• Phil Hartman
• Frank Sinatra

Life Achievement Award

• Screen Actors Guild Awards 35th Annual Life Achievement Award:
  • Kirk Douglas

References

• http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-03-09/entertainment/17682202_1_tv-movie-or-miniseries-sag-primary-colors
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tp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/03/08/entertainment/main37909.shtml Surprise at the SAG Awards

• http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/5th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/movies/features/sagawards99.htm
• http://www.thefreelibrary.com/SCREEN+ACTORS+GUILD+AWARDS%3B+A+NIGHT+FOR+%60LOVE'%3B+PALTROW,+BENIGNI...-a083606665