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S A G A F T R A .O R G S AG - A F T R A S PEC I A L IS S U E 2 0 24 48 1995 1996 MARTIN LANDAU Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Ed Wood. ANGELA LANSBURY & FRIENDS Friends co-stars, from le, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow. Angela Lansbury receives the 33rd SAG Life Achievement Award. IT IS FEBRUARY 1995. Five dedicated Screen Actors Guild members — Daryl Anderson, Kathy Connell, Toey Caldwell, Paul Napier and Yale Summers — have worked tirelessly for 14 months planning something new for their fellow union actors. Now, the big night is here, and the culmination of months of hard work is airing on television screens across the country: the first-ever Screen Actors Guild Awards ® . That evening, in Universal Studios' historic Stage 12, Angela Lansbury stares out into a crowd made up of high-profile attendees: Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Helen Hunt and countless others. What she delivers to the room, and to millions more watching from home, is an opener that in other circumstances would, ironically, shut a room down: "I've been Elizabeth Taylor's sister, Spencer Tracy's mistress, Elvis' mother and a singing teapot. Tonight is dedicated to the art and cra of acting by people who should know about SGR ANITZ/ WIREIMAGE SGR ANITZ/ WIREIMAGE MATHE W PHOTOGR APIC SERVICES