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Screen Actors Guild Awards

The Actor: The Screen Actors Guild Award Statue
Awarded forExcellence in film and television by members of the Screen Actors Guild
Presented byScreen Actors Guild
Country United States
First awarded1995
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The Screen Actors Guild Awards are an annual award given by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) to recognize outstanding performances by members.

SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. Nominations for the awards come from 4200 randomly selected members of the union, with the full membership (120,000 as of 2007) available to vote for the winners. The awards have been televised for the past several years on TNT, but now also air on TBS. This prestigious award show ranks second to the Oscars and Emmys in honors.

The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25, 1995. The statue given is called The Actor.

List of nominees and winners

Awards are organized into the following categories:

Film awards

  • Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
  • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
  • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Television awards

  • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
  • Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
  • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
  • Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
  • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

Life Achievement Awards

Most awards

These are the artists and shows that have received the most awards over the years, including all awards up to 2005.
  • Megan Mullally has won the Oustanding Female Television Actor Award 3 times, winning the awards consecutively as well as another for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (Will and Grace) in 2001.
  • Sean Hayes has won 3 times the Outstanding Male Television Actor Award as well as another for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (Will and Grace) in 2001.
  • Anthony Edwards, Dennis Franz, Martin Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and James Gandolfini all won the Outstanding Male Television Actor-Drama Award 2 times.
  • ER has won the Outstanding Ensemble-Television Award and the Best Ensemble-Drama Awards both 4 times.
  • The comedy Seinfeld has won the Outstanding Ensemble-Comedy Award 3 times
  • RenĂ©e Zellweger has won 3 SAG Awards. (Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role 2004 - Cold Mountain, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role 2003 - Chicago and Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture 2003 - Chicago).
  • Jerry Orbach posthumously won a SAG Award for his role in "Law & Order" in 2005.

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SAG

Screen Actors Guild
Founded 1933
Members 120,000
Country United States
Affiliation AFL-CIO
Key people Alan Rosenberg, President
Connie Stevens, Secretary-Treasurer
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SAG

Screen Actors Guild
Founded 1933
Members 120,000
Country United States
Affiliation AFL-CIO
Key people Alan Rosenberg, President
Connie Stevens, Secretary-Treasurer
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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SAG

Screen Actors Guild
Founded 1933
Members 120,000
Country United States
Affiliation AFL-CIO
Key people Alan Rosenberg, President
Connie Stevens, Secretary-Treasurer
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Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym for the Cinema of the United States.
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TBS also stands for Tokyo Broadcasting System, a Japanese television network.

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Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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Emmy Award

Emmy Award
Awarded for Excellence in television
Presented by ATAS/NATAS
Country  United States
First awarded 1949
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The 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, honouring the best in film and television acting achievement for the year 2006, took place on 28 January, 2007 and, for the 11th consecutive ceremony, was held at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center, in Los Angeles,
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The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film and television acting achievement for the year 2005, took place on January 29, 2006 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center, in Los Angeles, California.
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The 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on February 5, 2005.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Jamie Foxx - Ray

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The 10th Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented at the Shrine Exposition Center, Los Angeles, California, USA on 22 February, 2004.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:

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The 9th Screen Actors Guild Awards were given on 9 March, 2003.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York

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The 8th Screen Actors Guild Awards were given on 9 March, 2002.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind

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The 7th Screen Actors Guild Awards, given on 11 March, 2001, honoured the best screen actors of 2000.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Benicio del Toro - Traffic

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

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Kevin Spacey - American Beauty

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

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Roberto Benigni -

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The 4th Screen Actors Guild Awards were given on 8 March, 1998.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets

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The 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards were given in March, 1997.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Geoffrey Rush - Shine

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The 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented on 24 February, 1996 in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:

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The 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Winners

Film

  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
  • Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

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The Screen Actors Guild's National Honors and Tributes Committee bestows an annual Life Achievement Award "for outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession." The award was not given in 1964 or 1981.
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Megan Mullally

Born November 12 1958 (1958--) (age 50)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died

Spouse(s) Michael A.
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Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award winning and Golden Globe nominated American television sitcom that was originally broadcast from 1998 to 2006. The show focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own
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Sean Hayes

Birth name Sean Patrick Hayes
Born May 26 1970 (1970--) (age 37)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award winning and Golden Globe nominated American television sitcom that was originally broadcast from 1998 to 2006. The show focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own
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Anthony Edwards

Anthony Edwards in the Tower Terrace Suites, at the 2002 Indianapolis 500.
Birth name Anthony Charles Planck Edwards
Born July 19 1962 (1962--)
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Dennis Franz

Franz at a rehearsal for the 1994 Emmy Awards

Born September 28 1944 (1944--) (age 63)
Chicago, Illinois

Dennis Franz
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