SAG Award

Screen Actors Guild

The 3rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

February 23, 1997  •  Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles  •  Life Achievement Award: Karl Malden

3rd
Ceremony
The English Patient — Film Ensemble
ER — TV Drama • Friends — TV Comedy
Film
Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture
Winner
The English Patient
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe and ensemble
The Birdcage
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Secrets & Lies
Male Actor — Leading Role (Film)
Winner
Geoffrey Rush
Shine
Tom Cruise— Jerry Maguire
Ralph Fiennes— The English Patient
Woody Harrelson— The People vs. Larry Flynt
Billy Bob Thornton— Sling Blade
Female Actor — Leading Role (Film)
Winner
Frances McDormand
Fargo
Kristin Scott Thomas— The English Patient
Emily Watson— Breaking the Waves
Brenda Blethyn— Secrets & Lies
Renée Zellweger— Jerry Maguire
Male Actor — Supporting Role (Film)
Winner
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Jerry Maguire
Edward Norton— Primal Fear
William H. Macy— Fargo
Gene Hackman— The Birdcage
Nathan Lane— The Birdcage
Female Actor — Supporting Role (Film)
Winner
Juliette Binoche
The English Patient
Lauren Bacall— The Mirror Has Two Faces
Joan Allen— The Crucible
Barbara Hershey— The Portrait of a Lady
Kristin Scott Thomas— The English Patient
Television
Ensemble — Drama Series
Winner
ER
NBC
Chicago Hope
Homicide: Life on the Street
NYPD Blue
Party of Five
Ensemble — Comedy Series
Winner
Friends
NBC
Frasier
Mad About You
Murphy Brown
Seinfeld
Male Actor — Drama Series
Winner
Dennis Franz
NYPD Blue
Anthony Edwards— ER
Andre Braugher— Homicide: Life on the Street
Eric Stoltz— Chicago Hope
Female Actor — Drama Series
Winner
Julianna Margulies
ER
Christine Lahti— Chicago Hope
Sharon Lawrence— NYPD Blue
Gillian Anderson— The X-Files
Male Actor — Comedy Series
Winner
John Lithgow
3rd Rock from the Sun
Kelsey Grammer— Frasier
Jerry Seinfeld— Seinfeld
Paul Reiser— Mad About You
Female Actor — Comedy Series
Winner
Helen Hunt
Mad About You
Jennifer Aniston— Friends
Candice Bergen— Murphy Brown
Fran Drescher— The Nanny
Male Actor — Limited Series or Movie
Winner
Gary Sinise
George Wallace (TNT)
Jack Lemmon— 12 Angry Men
Robert Duvall— Stalin
Armand Assante— Gotti
Female Actor — Limited Series or Movie
Winner
Kathy Bates
The Late Shift (HBO)
Gena Rowlands— Unstrung Heroes
Helen Mirren— Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement
Roseanne Barr— She-Devil
Special
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
Recipient
Karl Malden
A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Patton, The Streets of San Francisco — SAG president and Oscar-winning character actor of immense range