| 12th Screen Actors Guild Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances |
| Date | January 29, 2006 |
| Location | Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles, California |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Screen Actors Guild |
| First awarded | 1995 |
| Website | www |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | TNT and TBS first time simultaneous broadcast |
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.
The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award was presented to the former child actress Shirley Temple Black.[3]