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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.

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote

Russell Crowe – Cinderella Man as James Braddock
Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow

Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line as June Carter Cash

Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents as Laura Henderson Felicity Huffman – Transamerica as Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne Charlize Theron – North Country as Josey Aimes Zhang Ziyi – Memoirs of a Geisha as Chiyo Sakamoto
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man as Joe Gould

Don Cheadle – Crash as Graham Walters
George Clooney – Syriana as Bob Barnes
Matt Dillon – Crash as John Ryan
Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist

Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener as Tessa Quayle

Amy Adams – Junebug as Ashley Johnsten
Catherine Keener – Capote as Harper Lee
Frances McDormand – North Country as Glory Dodge
Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain as Alma Beers Del Mar

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Crash – Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, and Larenz Tate

Brokeback Mountain – Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Heath Ledger, Randy Quaid, and Michelle Williams
Capote – Bob Balaban, Marshall Bell, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Mark Pellegrino
Good Night, and Good Luck – Rose Abdoo, Alex Borstein, Robert John Burke, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Reed Diamond, Tate Donovan, Robert Downey Jr., Grant Heslov, Peter Jacobson, Frank Langella, Tom McCarthy, Dianne Reeves, Matt Ross, David Strathairn, and Ray Wise
Hustle & Flow – Anthony Anderson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Isaac Hayes, Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard, Taryn Manning, Elise Neal, Paula Jai Parker, and DJ Qualls

Television

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Paul Newman – Empire Falls (HBO) as Max Roby

Kenneth Branagh – Warm Springs (HBO) as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ted Danson – Knights of the South Bronx (A&E) as Richard Mason
Ed Harris – Empire Falls (HBO) as Miles Roby
Christopher Plummer – Our Fathers (Showtime) as Cardinal Bernard Law

S. Epatha Merkerson – Lackawanna Blues (HBO) as Rachel "Nanny" Crosby

Tonantzin Carmelo – Into the West (TNT) as Thunder Heart Woman Cynthia Nixon – Warm Springs (HBO) as Eleanor Roosevelt Joanne Woodward – Empire Falls (HBO) as Francine Whiting Robin Wright – Empire Falls (HBO) as Grace Roby
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

Kiefer Sutherland – 24 (Fox) as Jack Bauer

Alan Alda – The West Wing (NBC) as Sen. Arnold Vinick
Patrick Dempsey – Grey's Anatomy (ABC) as Dr. Derek Shepherd
Hugh Laurie – House (Fox) as Dr. Gregory House
Ian McShane – Deadwood (HBO) as Al Swearengen

Sandra Oh – Grey's Anatomy (ABC) as Cristina Yang

Patricia Arquette – Medium (NBC) as Allison DuBois Geena Davis – Commander In Chief (ABC) as Mackenzie Allen Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC) as Det. Olivia Benson Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT) as Det. Brenda Leigh Johnson
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series