Best Performances (1st)

Best Individual Performance by an Actress (First Awards)

Winner

  • Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame (1958)

Additional Nominees

  • Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth (1998)
  • Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  • Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter (1968)
  • Jessica Lange – Frances (1982)
  • Julianne Moore – Boogie Nights (1997)
  • Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice (1982)
  • Elizabeth Taylor – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Best Individual Performance by an Actor (First Awards)

Winner

  • Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Additional Nominees

  • Richard Burton – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  • Ed Harris – Pollock (2000)
  • Peter O’Toole – The Lion in Winter (1968)
  • Mark Ruffalo – You Can Count on Me (2000)

Movie With the Best Ensemble Cast (Lifetime Achievements)

Winner

  • The Women (1939)

Additional Nominees

  • The Big Chill (1983)
  • Clue (1985)
  • Nashville (1975)
  • Noises Off (1992)
  • Ready-to-Wear (1994)
  • Traffic (2000)

Actor You Would Most Like to Have Sex With (First Awards)

Winner

  • Jude Law

Additional Nominees

  • Russell Crowe
  • Matt Damon
  • Hugh Grant
  • Brad Pitt

Actress You Would Most Like to Have Sex With (First Awards)

Winner

  • Catherine Deneuve

Additional Nominees

  • Cate Blanchett
  • Paulette Goddard
  • Grace Jones
  • Veronica Lake
  • Carmen Maura
  • Jennifer Tilly

Best Performance by a Gay Actor Portraying a Straight Man (First Awards)

Winner

  • Rock Hudson – Pillow Talk (1959)

Additional Nominees

  • Raymond Burr – Rear Window (1954)
  • Rupert Everett – An Ideal Husband (1999)
  • Richard Gere – Pretty Woman (1990)
  • Cary Grant – The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Best Performance by a Lesbian Actress Portraying a Straight Woman (First Awards)

Winner

  • Barbara Stanwyck – Double Indemnity (1944)

Additional Nominees

  • Ellen DeGeneres – EDTV (1999)
  • Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • Lily Tomlin – All of Me (1984)

Best Performance by an Actor in an LGBTQ Role (First Awards)

Winner

  • Terrence Stamp – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

Additional Nominees

  • Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls (2000)
  • Bruce Davison – Longtime Companion (1989)
  • Daniel Day-Lewis – My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
  • Hugh Grant – Maurice (1987)

Best Performance by an Actress in an LGBTQ Role (First Awards)

Winner

  • Hilary Swank – Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

Additional Nominees

  • Cher – Silkwood (1983)
  • Catherine Deneuve – The Hunger (1983)
  • Queen Latifah – Living Out Loud (1998)
  • Ally Sheedy – High Art (1998)
  • Jennifer Tilly – Bound (1996)

Most Surprising Performance by an Actor or Actress That You Never Thought Was Very Good, but They Really Surprised You With This Particularly Good Performance (First Awards)

Winner

  • Tori Spelling – Trick (1999)

Additional Nominees

  • George Clooney – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • Brendan Frasier – Gods and Monsters (1998)
  • Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich (2000)
  • Will Smith – Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
  • Mark Wahlberg – Boogie Nights (1997)