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]
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.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role winnerReese Witherspoon, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winnerPaul Giamatti, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role winnerRachel Weisz, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role winnerPaul Newman, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winnerS. Epatha Merkerson, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie winnerKiefer Sutherland, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series winnerSandra Oh, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series winnerSean Hayes, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series winnerFelicity Huffman, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series winner
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