The 4th Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 1997, took place on March 8, 1998.
The ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, and was televised live by TNT.
The nominees were announced on January 27, 1998, by Melissa Joan Hart and David Paymer.
Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall Helen Hunt – As Good as It Gets as Carol Connelly Robin Williams – Good Will Hunting as Dr. Sean Maguire Kim Basinger – L.A.
Confidential as Lynn Bracken (TIE) Gloria Stuart – Titanic as Old Rose (TIE) The Full Monty – Mark Addy, Paul Barber, Robert Carlyle, Deirdre Costello, Steve Huison, Bruce Jones, Lesley Sharp, William Snape, Hugo Speer, Tom Wilkinson, and Emily Woof Gary Sinise – George Wallace as George Wallace Alfre Woodard – Miss Evers' Boys as Eunice Rivers Laurie Anthony Edwards – ER as Mark Greene Julianna Margulies – ER as Carol Hathaway John Lithgow – 3rd Rock from the Sun as Dick Solomon Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Seinfeld as Elaine Benes ER – Maria Bello, George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Laura Innes, Alex Kingston, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, Gloria Reuben, and Noah Wyle Seinfeld – Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, and Jerry Seinfeld Gloria Stuart presented this segment in which the guild remembered its most famous members who died last year: