Awards for 1996

Actor

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

WINNER

The X-Files: Gillian Anderson
NOMINEES

Chicago Hope: Christine Lahti

NYPD Blue: Sharon Lawrence

ER: Julianna Margulies

Sisters: Sela Ward

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

WINNER

ER: Anthony Edwards
NOMINEES

ER: George Clooney

The X-Files: David Duchovny

NYPD Blue: Dennis Franz

NYPD Blue: Jimmy Smits

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

WINNER

Frasier: David Hyde Pierce
NOMINEES

Seinfeld: Jason Alexander

Frasier: Kelsey Grammer

Mad About You: Paul Reiser

Seinfeld: Michael Richards

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Leaving Las Vegas: Nicolas Cage
NOMINEES

Nixon: Anthony Hopkins

Cry, the Beloved Country: James Earl Jones

Dead Man Walking: Sean Penn

Il Postino: The Postman: Massimo Troisi
Posthumously.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

WINNER

Cybill: Christine Baranski
NOMINEES

Murphy Brown: Candice Bergen

Mad About You: Helen Hunt

Friends: Lisa Kudrow

Seinfeld: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Dead Man Walking: Susan Sarandon
NOMINEES

Nixon: Joan Allen

Leaving Las Vegas: Elisabeth Shue

The Bridges of Madison County: Meryl Streep

Sense and Sensibility: Emma Thompson

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Sense and Sensibility: Kate Winslet
NOMINEES

Smoke: Stockard Channing

The Crossing Guard: Anjelica Huston

Mighty Aphrodite: Mira Sorvino

Georgia: Mare Winningham

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Apollo 13: Ed Harris
NOMINEES

Murder in the First: Kevin Bacon

Othello: Kenneth Branagh

Devil in a Blue Dress: Don Cheadle

The Usual Suspects: Kevin Spacey

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

WINNER

Apollo 13: Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan, Gary Sinise
NOMINEES

Get Shorty: Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, David Paymer, Rene Russo, John Travolta

How to Make an American Quilt: Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Samantha Mathis, Kate Nelligan, Winona Ryder, Jean Simmons, Lois Smith, Alfre Woodard

Nixon: Joan Allen, Brian Bedford, Powers Boothe, Kevin Dunn, Fyvush Finkel, Annabeth Gish, Tony Goldwyn, Larry Hagman, Ed Harris, Edward Herrmann, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Madeline Kahn, E.G. Marshall, David Paymer, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J.T. Walsh, James Woods

Sense and Sensibility: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

WINNER

Friends: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer
NOMINEES

Cybill: Christine Baranski, Dedee Pfeiffer, Alan Rosenberg, Cybill Shepherd, Alicia Witt, Tom Wopat

Frasier: Dan Butler, Peri Gilpin, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, David Hyde Pierce

Mad About You: Helen Hunt, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow, Anne Ramsay, Paul Reiser

Seinfeld: Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

WINNER

ER: George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, Gloria Reuben, Sherry Stringfield, Noah Wyle
NOMINEES

Chicago Hope: Adam Arkin, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Hector Elizondo, Thomas Gibson, Roxanne Hart, Christine Lahti, Peter MacNicol, Mandy Patinkin, Jamey Sheridan

Law & Order: Benjamin Bratt, Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

NYPD Blue: Gordon Clapp, Kim Delaney, Dennis Franz, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Justine Miceli, Gail O'Grady, Jimmy Smits, Nicholas Turturro

Picket Fences: Amy Aquino, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Kelly Connell, Fyvush Finkel, Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor, Marlee Matlin, Justin Shenkarow, Tom Skerritt, Ray Walston, Adam Wylie

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries

WINNER

The Piano Lesson: Alfre Woodard
NOMINEES

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story: Glenn Close

A Woman of Independent Means: Sally Field

Buffalo Girls: Anjelica Huston

Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story: Sela Ward

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries

WINNER

Truman: Gary Sinise
NOMINEES

A Streetcar Named Desire: Alec Baldwin

The Tuskegee Airmen: Laurence Fishburne

The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise: James Garner

The Good Old Boys: Tommy Lee Jones