7th Screen Actors Guild Awards

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

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot as Billy Elliot
• Russell Crowe - Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius
• Benicio Del Toro - Traffic as Javier Rodríguez
• Tom Hanks - Cast Away as Chuck Noland
• Geoffrey Rush - Quills as Marquis de Sade

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Joan Allen - The Contender as Laine Hanson
• Juliette Binoche - Chocolat as Vianne Rocher
• Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream as Sara Goldfarb
• Laura Linney - You Can Count on Me as Samantha "Sammy" Prescott
• Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich as Erin Brockovich

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jeff Bridges - The Contender as Jackson Evans
• Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire as Max Schreck
• Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich as Ed Masry
• Gary Oldman - The Contender as Shelley Runyon
• Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator as Commodus

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Judi Dench - Chocolat as Armande Voizin
• Kate Hudson - Almost Famous as Penny Lane
• Frances McDormand - Almost Famous as Mrs. Miller
• Julie Walters - Billy Elliot as Mrs. Wilkinson
• Kate Winslet - Quills as Madeleine "Maddy" LeClerc

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• Almost Famous
• Billy Elliot
• Chocolat
• Gladiator
• Traffic
  • Benjamin Bratt
  • James Brolin
  • Don Cheadle
  • Erika Christensen
  • Clifton Collins, Jr.
  • Benicio del Toro
  • Michael Douglas
  • Albert Finney
  • Topher Grace
  • Amy Irving
  • Dennis Quaid
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones

Television

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

• Alec Baldwin - Nuremberg as Robert H. Jackson
• Brian Cox - Nuremberg as Hermann Göring
• Brian Dennehy - Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
• Danny Glover - Freedom Song as Will Walker
• John Lithgow - Don Quixote as Don Quioxte de la Mancha
• James Woods - Dirty Pictures as Dennis Barrie

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Stockard Channing - The Truth About Jane as Janice
• Judi Dench - The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Elizabeth
• Sally Field - David Copperfield as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
• Elizabeth Franz - Death of a Salesman as Linda Loman
• Vanessa Redgrave - If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Edith Tree

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Tim Daly - The Fugitive as Dr. Richard Kimble
• Anthony Edwards - ER as Dr. Mark Greene
• Dennis Franz - NYPD Blue as Sgt. Andy Sipowicz
• James Gandolfini - The Sopranos as Tony Soprano
• Martin Sheen - The West Wing as Josiah "Jed" Bartlet

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Gillian Anderson - The X Files as Dana Scully
• Edie Falco - The Sopranos as Carmela Soprano
• Sally Field - ER as Maggie Lockhart
• Lauren Graham - Gilmore Girls as Lorelai Gilmore
• Allison Janney - The West Wing as C.J. Cregg
• Sela Ward - Once and Again as Lily Manning

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Robert Downey, Jr. - Ally McBeal as Larry Paul
• Sean Hayes - Will & Grace as Jack McFarland
• Kelsey Grammer - Frasier as Frasier Crane
• Peter MacNicol - Ally McBeal as John Cage
• David Hyde Pierce - Frasier as Niles Crane

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Calista Flockhart - Ally McBeal as Ally McBeal
• Jane Kaczmarek - Malcolm in the Middle as Lois Wilkerson
• Debra Messing - Will & Grace as Grace Adler
• Megan Mullally - Will & Grace as Karen Walker
• Sarah Jessica Parker - Sex and the City as Carrie Bradshaw

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• ER
• Law & Order
• The Practice
• The Sopranos
• The West Wing
  • Dulé Hill
  • Allison Janney
  • Moira Kelly
  • Rob Lowe
  • Janel Moloney
  • Richard Schiff
  • Martin Sheen
  • John Spencer
  • Bradley Whitford

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• Ally McBeal
• Frasier
• Friends
• Sex and the City
• Will & Grace
  • Sean Hayes
  • Eric McCormack
  • Debra Messing
  • Megan Mullally

In Memoriam

Presented by George Clooney, the awards remember his members who died since the previous year's ceremony: Steve Allen, Judith Barrett, Paul Bartel, Billy Barty, Victor Borge, Ann Doran, Dale Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Richard Farnsworth, Vittorio Gassman, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Rose Hobart, Jean Speegle Howard, Werner Klemperer, Francis Lederer, Larry Linville, Julie London, Meredith MacRae, Helen Martin, Nancy Marchand, Walter Matthau, Richard Mulligan, Jean Peters, Steve Reeves, Beah Richards, Jason Robards, Max Showalter, Craig Stevens, David Tomlinson, Claire Trevor, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Marie Windsor and Loretta Young.

Life Achievement Award

• Screen Actors Guild Awards 37th Annual Life Achievement Award:
  • Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

References

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• http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/7th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards
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