53rd Golden Globe Awards

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The 53rd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1995, were held on 21 January 1996.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Actor – Drama

Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas

• Richard Dreyfuss – Mr. Holland's Opus
• Anthony Hopkins – Nixon
• Ian McKellen – Richard III
• Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

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

Best Actress – Drama

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 Actress – Musical or Comedy

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 Director

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

Best Film – Drama

Sense and Sensibility

• Apollo 13
• Braveheart
• The Bridges of Madison County
• Leaving Las Vegas

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

Babe

• Get Shorty
• Sabrina
• The American President
• 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

Best Original Score

A Walk in the Clouds – Maurice Jarre

• Braveheart – James Horner
• Don Juan DeMarco – Michael Kamen
• Pocahontas – Alan Menken
• Sense and Sensibility – Patrick Doyle

Best Original Song

"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" – Sabrina
• "You've Got a Friend in Me" by Randy Newman – Toy Story

Best Screenplay

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 Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite

• Anjelica Huston – The Crossing Guard
• Kathleen Quinlan – Apollo 13
• Kyra Sedgwick – Something to Talk About
• Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility

Television

Best Actor – Drama Series

Jimmy Smits – NYPD Blue

• Daniel Benzali – Murder One
• George Clooney – ER
• Anthony Edwards – ER
• David Duchovny – The X-Files

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series

Kelsey Grammer – Frasier

• Tim Allen – Home Improvement
• Garry Shandling – The Larry Sanders Show
• Jerry Seinfeld – Seinfeld
• Paul Reiser – Mad About You

Best Actor – 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

Best Actress – Drama Series

Jane Seymour – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

• Gillian Anderson – The X-Files
• Kathy Baker – Picket Fences
• Heather Locklear – Melrose Place
• Sherry Stringfield – ER

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

Cybill Shepherd – Cybill

• Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown
• Ellen DeGeneres – Ellen
• Fran Drescher – The Nanny
• Helen Hunt – Mad About You

Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

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 Series – Drama

Party of Five

• Chicago Hope
• ER
• Murder One
• NYPD Blue

Best Series – Musical or Comedy

Cybill

• Frasier
• Friends
• Mad About You
• Seinfeld

Best Miniseries or Television Film

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

• Citizen X
• The Heidi Chronicles
• Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
• Truman

Best Supporting Actor – 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

Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film

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

Award breakdown

Film

• 2 / 6 Sense and Sensibility: Best Picture - Drama & Best Screenplay
• 1 / 1 Babe: Best Picture - Musical or Comedy
• 1 / 1 Les Misérables: Best Foreign Language Film
• 1 / 1 Mighty Aphrodite: Best Supporting Actress
• 1 / 1 To Die For: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy
• 1 / 1 12 Monkeys: Best Supporting Actor
• 1 / 1 A Walk in the Clouds: Best Original Score
• 1 / 2 Casino: Best Actress - Drama
• 1 / 2 Pocahontas: Best Original Song
• 1 / 3 Get Shorty: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy
• 1 / 4 Braveheart: Best Director
• 1 / 4 Leaving Las Vegas: Best Actor - Drama

See also

• 68th Academy Awards
• 16th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 47th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 48th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 49th British Academy Film Awards
• 50th Tony Awards
• 1995 in film
• 1995 in American television