53rd Golden Globe Awards

53rd Golden Globe Awards
53rd Golden Globe Awards
Date	21 January 1996
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	Sense and Sensibility
Best Film: Musical or Comedy	Babe
Best Drama Series	Party of Five
Best Musical or Comedy Series	Cybill
	← 52nd; Golden Globes; 54th →;

The 53rd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1995, were held on January 21, 1996 at the Beverly Hilton.^[1]^[2]^[3] The nominations were announced on December 21, 1995.^[4]^[5]

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Musical or Comedy
*Sense and Sensibility* Apollo 13 Braveheart The Bridges of Madison County Leaving Las Vegas	*Babe* The American President Get Shorty Sabrina Toy Story
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas Richard Dreyfuss – Mr. Holland's Opus Anthony Hopkins – Nixon Ian McKellen – Richard III Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking	Sharon Stone – Casino Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Actor	Actress
John Travolta – Get Shorty Michael Douglas – The American President Harrison Ford – Sabrina Steve Martin – Father of the Bride Part II Patrick Swayze – To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Nicole Kidman – To Die For Annette Bening – The American President Sandra Bullock – While You Were Sleeping Toni Collette – Muriel's Wedding Vanessa Redgrave – A Month by the Lake
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Brad Pitt – 12 Monkeys Ed Harris – Apollo 13 John Leguizamo – To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Tim Roth – Rob Roy Kevin Spacey – The Usual Suspects	Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite Anjelica Huston – The Crossing Guard Kathleen Quinlan – Apollo 13 Kyra Sedgwick – Something to Talk About Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Mel Gibson – Braveheart Mike Figgis – Leaving Las Vegas Ron Howard – Apollo 13 Ang Lee – Sense and Sensibility Rob Reiner – The American President Martin Scorsese – Casino	Sense and Sensibility – Emma Thompson The American President – Aaron Sorkin Braveheart – Randall Wallace Dead Man Walking – Tim Robbins Get Shorty – Scott Frank Mr. Holland's Opus – Patrick Sheane Duncan
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
A Walk in the Clouds – Maurice Jarre Braveheart – James Horner Don Juan DeMarco – Michael Kamen Pocahontas – Alan Menken Sense and Sensibility – Patrick Doyle	"Colors of the Wind" by Vanessa Williams – Pocahontas "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" by Bryan Adams – Don Juan DeMarco "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2 – Batman Forever "Moonlight" by Sting – Sabrina "You've Got a Friend in Me" by Randy Newman – Toy Story
Best Foreign Language Film
Les Misérables • France Brother of Sleep (Schlafes Bruder) • Germany French Twist (Gazon maudit) • France Like Two Crocodiles (Come due coccodrilli) • Italy Shanghai Triad (Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao) • China

Television

Best Television Series
Best Series - Drama	Best Series - Comedy or Musical
*Party of Five* Chicago Hope ER Murder One NYPD Blue	Cybill Frasier Friends Mad About You Seinfeld
Best Lead Actor in a Television Series
Best Actor - Drama Series	Best Actor - Comedy or Musical Series
Jimmy Smits – NYPD Blue Daniel Benzali – Murder One George Clooney – ER Anthony Edwards – ER David Duchovny – The X-Files	Kelsey Grammer – Frasier Tim Allen – Home Improvement Garry Shandling – The Larry Sanders Show Jerry Seinfeld – Seinfeld Paul Reiser – Mad About You
Best Lead Actress in a Television Series
Best Actress - Drama Series	Best Actress - Comedy or Musical Series
Jane Seymour – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Gillian Anderson – The X-Files Kathy Baker – Picket Fences Heather Locklear – Melrose Place Sherry Stringfield – ER	Cybill Shepherd – Cybill Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown Ellen DeGeneres – Ellen Fran Drescher – The Nanny Helen Hunt – Mad About You
Best Supporting Performance - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or a Television Film	Best Supporting Actress - Series - Miniseries or Television Film
Donald Sutherland – Citizen X Sam Elliott – Buffalo Girls Tom Hulce – The Heidi Chronicles David Hyde Pierce – Frasier Henry Thomas – Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Shirley Knight – Indictment: The McMartin Trial Christine Baranski – Cybill Judy Davis – Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Melanie Griffith – Buffalo Girls Lisa Kudrow – Friends Julianna Margulies – ER
Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film	Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film
Gary Sinise – Truman Alec Baldwin – A Streetcar Named Desire Charles S. Dutton – The Piano Lesson Laurence Fishburne – The Tuskegee Airmen James Woods – Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Jessica Lange – A Streetcar Named Desire Glenn Close – Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Jamie Lee Curtis – The Heidi Chronicles Sally Field – A Woman of Independent Means Linda Hamilton – A Mother's Prayer
Best Miniseries or Television Film
Indictment: The McMartin Trial Citizen X The Heidi Chronicles Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Truman

Award breakdown

Multiple Wins

Film

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Film
2	Sense and Sensibility

Television

The following 2 series received multiple wins:

Wins	Series
2	Cybill
2	Indictment: The McMartin Trial

References

^ Dutka, Elaine; Puig, Claudia (22 January 1996). "'Sense,' 'Babe' Take Home Top Golden Globes". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
^ "Golden Globe Awards closes gala event with som "Sense and Sensibility"". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 22 January 1996. Retrieved 13 January 2018 – via Google News Archive.
^ Miller, Michael (22 January 1996). "Hollywood Left Guessing After Golden Globe Awards". Daily News. Retrieved 13 January 2018 – via Google News Archive.
^ Welkos, Robert; Dutka, Elaine (22 December 1995). "'Sense' Tops Globe Nod List With Six". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
^ "Film, TV Nominees for the Golden Globes". Los Angeles Times. 22 December 1995. Retrieved 13 January 2018.

[1] Dutka, Elaine; Puig, Claudia (22 January 1996). "'Sense,' 'Babe' Take Home Top Golden Globes". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 January 2018.

[2] "Golden Globe Awards closes gala event with som "Sense and Sensibility"". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 22 January 1996. Retrieved 13 January 2018 – via Google News Archive.

[3] Miller, Michael (22 January 1996). "Hollywood Left Guessing After Golden Globe Awards". Daily News. Retrieved 13 January 2018 – via Google News Archive.

[4] Welkos, Robert; Dutka, Elaine (22 December 1995). "'Sense' Tops Globe Nod List With Six". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 January 2018.

[5] "Film, TV Nominees for the Golden Globes". Los Angeles Times. 22 December 1995. Retrieved 13 January 2018.

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Winners and nominees

Film

Television

Award breakdown

Multiple Wins

Film

Television

See also

References