SAG Award

Screen Actors Guild — Inaugural Ceremony

The 1st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

February 25, 1995  •  Universal Studios, Universal City  •  Life Achievement Award: Kirk Douglas

1st
Ceremony
Pulp Fiction — Film Ensemble (first ever)
ER — TV Drama • Seinfeld — TV Comedy
Film
Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture
Winner
Pulp Fiction
John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis and ensemble — inaugural winner of this award
Bullets over Broadway
Forrest Gump
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption
Male Actor — Leading Role (Film)
Winner
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
Morgan Freeman— The Shawshank Redemption
Nigel Hawthorne— The Madness of King George
Paul Newman— Nobody's Fool
John Travolta— Pulp Fiction
Female Actor — Leading Role (Film)
Winner
Jodie Foster
Nell
Jessica Lange— Blue Sky
Miranda Richardson— Tom & Viv
Meryl Streep— The River Wild
Meg Ryan— When a Man Loves a Woman
Male Actor — Supporting Role (Film)
Winner
Martin Landau
Ed Wood
Chazz Palminteri— Bullets over Broadway
Paul Scofield— Quiz Show
Gary Sinise— Forrest Gump
Samuel L. Jackson— Pulp Fiction
Female Actor — Supporting Role (Film)
Winner
Dianne Wiest
Bullets over Broadway
Jennifer Tilly— Bullets over Broadway
Uma Thurman— Pulp Fiction
Rosemary Harris— Tom & Viv
Helen Mirren— The Madness of King George
Television
Ensemble — Drama Series
Winner
ER
NBC — debut season
Chicago Hope
Law & Order
NYPD Blue
The X-Files
Ensemble — Comedy Series
Winner
Seinfeld
NBC
Frasier
Friends
Mad About You
Murphy Brown
Male Actor — Drama Series
Winner
Dennis Franz
NYPD Blue
Anthony Edwards— ER
Tom Skerritt— Picket Fences
George Clooney— ER
Female Actor — Drama Series
Winner
Kathy Baker
Picket Fences
Julianna Margulies— ER
Christine Lahti— Chicago Hope
Gillian Anderson— The X-Files
Male Actor — Comedy Series
Winner
Kelsey Grammer
Frasier
Jerry Seinfeld— Seinfeld
Paul Reiser— Mad About You
Ray Romano— Everybody Loves Raymond
Female Actor — Comedy Series
Winner
Helen Hunt
Mad About You
Candice Bergen— Murphy Brown
Jennifer Aniston— Friends
Julia Louis-Dreyfus— Seinfeld
Male Actor — Limited Series or Movie
Winner
James Garner
Breathing Lessons (Hallmark Hall of Fame)
Jack Lemmon— Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Robert Duvall— Stalin
Raul Julia— The Burning Season (nominated posthumously)
Female Actor — Limited Series or Movie
Winner
Joanne Woodward
Breathing Lessons (Hallmark Hall of Fame)
Diana Rigg— Rebecca
Cicely Tyson— The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Kirstie Alley— David's Mother
Special
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
Recipient
Kirk Douglas
Spartacus, Paths of Glory, Champion — first-ever recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award; Oscar-nominated actor and tireless advocate for the creative community