53rd Golden Globe Awards

53rd Golden Globe Awards
53rd Golden Globe Awards
Date	January 21, 1996
Site	The Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California
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
Most awards	Cybill (2) ; Indictment: The McMartin Trial (2) ; Sense and Sensibility (2)
Most nominations	Sense and Sensibility (6)
Television coverage
Network	NBC
	← 52nd ; Golden Globes ; 54th →;

Last updated August 16, 2025

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

Winners and nominees

Mira Sorvino - Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture winner MiraSorvino07TIFF.jpg — Mira Sorvino – Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture winner

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* as Ben Sanderson** Richard Dreyfuss – Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland Anthony Hopkins – Nixon as Richard Nixon Ian McKellen – Richard III as Richard III of England Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet	*Sharon Stone – Casino* as Ginger McKenna** Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas as Sera Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Actor	Actress
*John Travolta – Get Shorty* as Ernesto "Chili" Palmer** Michael Douglas – The American President as President Andrew "Andy" Shepard Harrison Ford – Sabrina as Linus Larrabee Steve Martin – Father of the Bride Part II as George Banks Patrick Swayze – To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Vida Boheme	*Nicole Kidman – To Die For* as Suzanne Stone-Marretto** Annette Bening – The American President as Sydney Ellen Wade Sandra Bullock – While You Were Sleeping as Lucy Moderatz Toni Collette – Muriel's Wedding as Muriel Heslop Vanessa Redgrave – A Month by the Lake as Miss Bentley
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
*Brad Pitt – 12 Monkeys* as Jeffrey Goines** Ed Harris – Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz John Leguizamo – To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Chi-Chi Rodriguez Tim Roth – Rob Roy as Archibald Cunningham Kevin Spacey – The Usual Suspects as Roger "Verbal" Kint / Keyser Söze	*Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite* as Leslie "Linda" Ash** Anjelica Huston – The Crossing Guard as Mary Kathleen Quinlan – Apollo 13 as Marilyn Lovell Kyra Sedgwick – Something to Talk About as Emma Rae King Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood
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 Alan Menken (music) and Stephen Schwartz (lyrics) – Pocahontas "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" by Michael Kamen, Bryan Adams, and Robert John Lange – Don Juan DeMarco "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by Adam Clayton (music), The Edge (music), Larry Mullen Jr. (music), and Bono (lyrics) – Batman Forever "Moonlight" by John Williams (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), and Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) – 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

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
6	Sense and Sensibility
5	The American President
4	Apollo 13
	Braveheart
	Leaving Las Vegas
3	Dead Man Walking
	Get Shorty
	Sabrina
2	The Bridges of Madison County
	Casino
	Don Juan DeMarco
	Mr. Holland's Opus
	Pocahontas
	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
	Toy Story

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Film
2	Sense and Sensibility

Television

Best Television Series
Drama	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
Drama Series	Comedy or Musical Series
Jimmy Smits – NYPD Blue Daniel Benzali – Murder One George Clooney – ER David Duchovny – The X-Files Anthony Edwards – ER	Kelsey Grammer – Frasier Tim Allen – Home Improvement Paul Reiser – Mad About You Jerry Seinfeld – Seinfeld Garry Shandling – The Larry Sanders Show
Best Lead Actress in a Television Series
Drama Series	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 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

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
5	ER
4	Indictment: The McMartin Trial
3	Cybill
	Frasier
	The Heidi Chronicles
	Mad About You
	Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
2	Buffalo Girls
	Citizen X
	Friends
	Murder One
	NYPD Blue
	Seinfeld
	A Street Car Named Desire
	Truman
	The X-Files

The following programs received multiple wins:

Wins	Series
2	Cybill
2	Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Ceremony

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Sean Connery

Mr. Golden Globe

Freddie Prinze Jr. (son of Freddie Prinze and Katherine Prinze)

Miss Golden Globe

Jaime Dudney (daughter of Barbara Mandrell and Ken Dudney)

Awards breakdown

The following networks received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Network
19	NBC
13	CBS
10	HBO
6	ABC
4	Fox
3	TNT

The following networks received multiple wins:

Wins	Network
2	CBS
2	HBO

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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