7th Screen Actors Guild Awards

7th SAG Awards

March 11, 2001

----Best Cast - Motion Picture:
Traffic ----Best Cast - Drama Series:
The West Wing ----Best Cast - Comedy Series:
Will & Grace

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

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

*Jamie Bell - "Billy Elliot"
*Russell Crowe - "Gladiator"
*"' Benicio del Toro - "Traffic"
*Tom Hanks - "Cast Away"
*Geoffrey Rush - "Quills"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

*Joan Allen - "The Contender"
*Juliette Binoche - "Chocolat"
*Ellen Burstyn - "Requiem for a Dream"
*Laura Linney - "You Can Count on Me"
*"' Julia Roberts - "Erin Brockovich"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

*Jeff Bridges - "The Contender"
*Willem Dafoe - "Shadow of the Vampire"
*"' Albert Finney - "Erin Brockovich"
*Gary Oldman - "The Contender"
*Joaquin Phoenix - "Gladiator"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

*"' Judi Dench - "Chocolat"
*Kate Hudson - "Almost Famous"
*Frances McDormand - "Almost Famous"
*Julie Walters - "Billy Elliot"
*Kate Winslet - "Quills"

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 - "Nurmeberg"
*Brian Cox - "Nuremberg"
*"' Brian Dennehy - "Death of a Salesman"
*Danny Glover - "Freedom Song"
*John Lithgow - "Don Quixote"
*James Woods - "Dirty Pictures"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

*Stockard Channing - "The Truth About Jane"
*Judi Dench - "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells"
*Sally Field - "David Copperfield"
*Elizabeth Franz - "Death of a Salesman"
*"' Vanessa Redgrave - "If These Walls Could Talk 2"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

*Tim Daly - "The Fugitive"
*Anthony Edwards - "ER"
*Dennis Franz - "NYPD Blue"
*James Gandolfini - "The Sopranos"
*"' Martin Sheen - "The West Wing"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

*Gillian Anderson - "The X Files"
*Edie Falco - "The Sopranos"
*Sally Field - "ER"
*Lauren Graham - "Gilmore Girls"
*"' Allison Janney - "The West Wing"
*Sela Ward - "Once and Again"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

*"' Robert Downey, Jr. - "Ally McBeal"
*Sean Hayes - "Will & Grace"
*Kelsey Grammer - "Frasier"
*Peter MacNicol - "Ally McBeal"
*David Hyde Pierce - "Frasier"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

*Calista Flockhart - "Ally McBeal"
*Jane Kaczmarek - "Malcolm in the Middle"
*Debra Messing - "Will & Grace"
*Megan Mullally - "Will & Grace"
*"' Sarah Jessica Parker - "Sex and the City"

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

Life Achievement Award

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