1st Screen Actors Guild Awards
The Inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards aired on NBC from Stage 12 at Universal Studios Hollywood, on February 25, 1995.
Unveiled during this evening for the first time was the Guild's new award statuette, The Actor, as well as the first awards for ensembles in drama series and comedy series which honor all of the actors who are the regulars in television series.
From this auspicious beginning the Screen Actors Guild Awards has been embraced as one of the most prestigious in the entertainment industry.
[1] Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump Jodie Foster – Nell as Nell Kellty Martin Landau – Ed Wood as Bela Lugosi Dianne Wiest – Bullets over Broadway as Helen Sinclair Raúl Juliá – The Burning Season as Francisco "Chico" Mendes Joanne Woodward – Breathing Lessons as Maggie Moran Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz Kathy Baker – Picket Fences as Jill Brock Jason Alexander – Seinfeld as George Costanza Helen Hunt – Mad About You as Jamie Buchman NYPD Blue – Gordon Clapp, Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Gail O'Grady, Jimmy Smits, and Nicholas Turturro Seinfeld – Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, and Jerry Seinfeld
