3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards
The 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 1996, took place on February 22, 1997.
The ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, and was televised live by NBC.
The nominees were announced on January 23, 1997.
[1][2][3] Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Geoffrey Rush – Shine as David Helfgott Frances McDormand – Fargo as Marge Gunderson Cuba Gooding Jr. – Jerry Maguire as Rodney "Rod" Tidwell Lauren Bacall – The Mirror Has Two Faces as Hannah Morgan The Birdcage – Hank Azaria, Christine Baranski, Dan Futterman, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, and Robin Williams Alan Rickman – Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny as Grigori Rasputin Kathy Bates – The Late Shift as Helen Kushnick Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue as Andy Sipowicz Gillian Anderson – The X-Files as Dana Scully John Lithgow – 3rd Rock from the Sun as Dick Solomon Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Seinfeld as Elaine Benes ER – George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Laura Innes, Julianna Margulies, Gloria Reuben, Eriq La Salle, Sherry Stringfield, and Noah Wyle Seinfeld – Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, and Jerry Seinfeld It was presented a memorial to the SAG's members who died during last year:
