12th Screen Actors Guild Awards

The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film and television acting achievement for the year 2005, took place on January 29, 2006, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center, in Los Angeles, California. It was the 10th consecutive year the ceremony was held at the center. The nominees were announced on January 5, 2006, and the event was televised live by both TNT and TBS. It was the first ever year TBS televised the ceremony, while it was the 9th consecutive year that TNT had aired it.[1][2]

12th Screen Actors Guild Awards
Awarded forOutstanding motion picture and primetime television performances
DateJanuary 29, 2006 (2006-01-29)
LocationShrine Auditorium
Los Angeles, California
CountryUnited States
Presented byScreen Actors Guild
First awarded1995
Websitewww.sagawards.org
Television/radio coverage
NetworkTNT and TBS
first time simultaneous broadcast
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Among the contenders for the film awards Brokeback Mountain received the highest number of nominations with four. Capote and Crash received the second highest number with three each. No film however received more than one award. In the television categories the mini-series Empire Falls and the spin-off series Boston Legal led the nominees with four nominations each. Desperate Housewives was the only series which won more than one award, two in total.

The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award was presented to the former child actress Shirley Temple Black.[3]

Winners and nominees

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Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

 
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role winner
 
Reese Witherspoon, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winner
 
Paul Giamatti, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role winner
 
Rachel Weisz, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role winner
 
Paul Newman, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winner
 
S. Epatha Merkerson, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winner
 
Kiefer Sutherland, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series winner
 
Sandra Oh, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series winner
 
Sean Hayes, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series winner
 
Felicity Huffman, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series winner

Film

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Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Television

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Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

In Memoriam

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Samuel L. Jackson presented a visual salute to the members of the guild who died in 2005:

References

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  1. ^ "Nominations announced for the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild. 5 January 2006. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  2. ^ "A Brief History of the SAG Awards". Archived from the original on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
  3. ^ "12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Recipients". Archived from the original on 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2007-08-28.
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