5th Screen Actors Guild Awards

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The 5th Screen Actors Guild Awards honored the year's best film and television performances from 1998. The ceremony took place on March 7, 1999, at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles and was broadcast live on TNT. Nominees were announced on January 26, 1999 by Salma Hayek and David Hyde Pierce.

Film winners:
- Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful (Guido Orefice)
- Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love (Viola de Lesseps)
- Robert Duvall – A Civil Action (Jerome Facher)
- Kathy Bates – Primary Colors (Libby Holden)

Ensemble nominations (films and TV):
- Shakespeare in Love – ensemble cast: Ben Affleck, Simon Callow, Jim Carter, Martin Clunes, Judi Dench, Joseph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Antony Sher, Imelda Staunton, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Williams
- ER – ensemble cast: George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Laura Innes, Alex Kingston, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, Kellie Martin, Paul McCrane, Gloria Reuben, Noah Wyle
- Ally McBeal – ensemble cast: Gil Bellows, Lisa Nicole Carson, Portia de Rossi, Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski, Lucy Liu, Peter MacNicol, Vonda Shepard, Courtney Thorne-Smith

Michael Douglas presented a memorial film clip to the guild members who had died in the previous year.