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.

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.

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.



Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

 * Shirley Temple Black

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


 * Sandra Dee
 * Eddie Albert
 * Barbara Bel Geddes
 * Bob Denver
 * James Doohan
 * Dana Elcar
 * Wendie Jo Sperber
 * J. D. Cannon
 * Harold J. Stone
 * Sheree North
 * Don Adams
 * Teresa Wright
 * Lloyd Bochner
 * Mason Adams
 * Lane Smith
 * Thurl Ravenscroft
 * John Raitt
 * Lou Rawls
 * John Vernon
 * Len Dressler
 * John Fiedler
 * Barney Martin
 * Ruth Hussey
 * Ford Rainey
 * Brock Peters
 * John Mills
 * Frances Langford
 * June Haver
 * Dan O'Herlihy
 * Geraldine Fitzgerald
 * Anthony Franciosa
 * Stephen Elliot
 * Paul Winchell
 * Frank Gorshin
 * Shelley Winters
 * Anne Bancroft
 * Louis Nye
 * Vincent Schiavelli
 * John Spencer
 * Pat Morita
 * Richard Pryor