2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Winners

Nominees announced: January 18, 1996

Ceremony: February 24, 1996

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The nominees for the 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild awards were announced January 18, 1996. The winners, as presented February 24th, 1996:

Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role
Winner: Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas

Other Nominees:
Anthony Hopkins, Nixon
James Earl Jones, Cry, The Beloved Country
Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking
Massimo Troisi, Il Postino (The Postman)

Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Leading Role
Winner: Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking

Other Nominees:
Joan Allen, Nixon
Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas
Meryl Streep, The Bridges Of Madison County
Emma Thompson, Sense And Sensibility

Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Supporting Role
Winner: Ed Harris, Apollo 13

Other Nominees:
Kevin Bacon, Murder In The First
Kenneth Branagh, Othello
Don Cheadle, Devil In A Blue Dress
Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects

Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Supporting Role
Winner: Kate Winslet, Sense And Sensibility

Other Nominees:
Stockard Channing, Smoke
Anjelica Huston, The Crossing Guard
Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite
Mare Winningham, Georgia

Outstanding Performance By A Cast In A Theatrical Motion Picture
Winner: The cast of Apollo 13

Other Nominees:
The cast of Get Shorty
The cast of How To Make An American Quilt
The cast of Nixon
The cast of Sense And Sensibility

Alex Fung, (aw220@freenet.carleton.ca)

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