6th Screen Actors Guild Awards

6th SAG Awards

March 12, 2000

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Best Cast - Motion Picture:
American Beauty

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Best Cast - Drama Series:
The Sopranos

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Best Cast - Comedy Series:
Frasier

The winners and nominees of the 6th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon as Andy Kaufman
• Russell Crowe - The Insider as Jeffrey Wigand
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Flawless as Rusty
• Kevin Spacey - American Beauty as Lester Burnham
• Denzel Washington - The Hurricane as Rubin "The Hurrican" Carter

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Annette Bening - American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham
• Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds as Mary Jo Walker
• Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair as Sarah Miles
• Meryl Streep - Music of the Heart as Roberta Guaspari
• Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules as Wilbur Larch
• Chris Cooper - American Beauty as Frank Fitts
• Tom Cruise - Magnolia as Frank T.J. Mackey
• Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile as John Coffey
• Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense as Cole Sear

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Cameron Diaz - Being John Malkovich as Lotte Schwartz
• Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted as Lisa Rowe
• Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich as Maxine Lund
• Julianne Moore - Magnolia as Linda Partridge
• Chloë Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry as Lana Tisdel

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• American Beauty
  • Annette Bening
  • Wes Bentley
  • Thora Birch
  • Chris Cooper
  • Peter Gallagher
  • Allison Janney
  • Kevin Spacey
  • Mena Suvari
• Being John Malkovich
• The Cider House Rules
• The Green Mile
• Magnolia

Television

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

• Hank Azaria - Oprah Winfrey Presents: Tuesdays with Morrie as Mitch Albom
• Peter Fonda - The Passion of Ayn Rand as Frank
• Jack Lemmon - Oprah Winfrey Presents: Tuesdays with Morrie as Morrie Schwartz
• George C. Scott - Inherit the Wind as Matthew Harrison Brady
• Patrick Stewart - A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Kathy Bates - The Wonderful World of Disney Presents: Annie as Miss Agatha Hannigan
• Halle Berry - Introducing Dorothy Dandridge as Dorothy Dandridge
• Judy Davis - A Cooler Climate as Paula
• Sally Field - A Cooler Climate as Iris
• Helen Mirren - The Passion of Ayn Rand as Ayn Rand

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• David Duchovny - The X-Files as Fox Mulder
• Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz
• James Gandolfini - The Sopranos as Tony Soprano
• Rick Schroder - NYPD Blue as Danny Sorenson
• Martin Sheen - The West Wing as Josiah "Jed" Bartlet

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Gillian Anderson - The X-Files as Dana Scully
• Lorraine Bracco - The Sopranos as Jennifer Melfi
• Edie Falco - The Sopranos as Carmela Soprano
• Nancy Marchand - The Sopranos as Livia Soprano
• Annie Potts - Any Day Now as Mary Elizabeth "M.E." Sims

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• 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
• Ray Romano - Everybody Loves Raymond as Ray Barone

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Calista Flockhart - Ally McBeal as Ally McBeal
• Lisa Kudrow - Friends as Phoebe Buffay
• Lucy Liu - Ally McBeal as Ling Woo
• Sarah Jessica Parker - Sex and the City as Carrie Bradshaw
• Tracey Ullman - Tracey Takes On... as various characters

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• ER
• Law & Order
• NYPD Blue
• The Practice
• The Sopranos
  • Lorraine Bracco
  • Dominic Chianese
  • Jamie-Lynn DiScala
  • Edie Falco
  • James Gandolfini
  • Robert Iler
  • Michael Imperioli
  • Nancy Marchand
  • Vincent Pastore
  • Tony Sirico
  • Steve Van Zandt

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Ally McBeal
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Frasier
  • Peri Gilpin
  • Kelsey Grammer
  • Jane Leeves
  • John Mahoney
  • David Hyde Pierce
• Friends
• Sports Night

In Memoriam

Like it's habitual in the show, the awards rememberd his actors who died in 1999 and a few from first mouth of 2000: David Strickland, Bob Peck, Albert Popwell, Roy Chiao, Ellen Corby, Bert Remsen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Oliver Reed, Dana Plato, DeForest Kelley, Douglas Seale, Bobs Watson, Sylvia Sydney, Brion James, Victor Mature, Ruth Roman, George C. Scott, Hoyt Axton, Ian Bannen, Mabel King, Mary Kay Bergman, Ralph Floody, Madeline Kahn, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Hamilton, Peter Jeffrey, Clayton Moore, Helena Carter, Hedy Lamarr, James N. Harrell y Jim Varney.

'NOTE': It's probarly that this is not the original list, the name of the actors are from the date of his death.

Life Achievement Award

• Screen Actors Guild Awards 36th Annual Life Achievement Award:
  • Sidney Poitier

References

• http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/02/entertainment/ca-60068 SAG nominations
• http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b39547_beauty_beast_sag_awards.html
• http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62420367.html
• http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/6th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/675752.stm