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53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996)
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Golden Globes 1996 Winners & Nominees

The 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996) took place on January 21, 1996. Sense and Sensibility won Best Picture – Drama and one more award. Every winner and nominee in all 13 categories is below.

All 13 categories Most wins
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63
films nominated
31
winners
13
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Best Picture – Drama
Sense and Sensibility
Headline winners

Golden Globes 1996: The Winners

Sense and Sensibility won Best Picture – Drama against 5 other nominees. Mel Gibson (Best Director), Nicolas Cage (Best Actor – Drama) and John Travolta (Best Actor – Musical or Comedy) took the main individual prizes.

Sense and Sensibility (1995) movie poster Best Picture – Drama

Best Picture – Drama

Sense and Sensibility

1995 · Drama, Romance · $135M worldwide

2 wins from 6 nominations at the 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996)

  • Best Screenplay

Following the death of their father, the Dashwood sisters— Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret— find themselves facing financial hardship and social uncertainty. With their inheritance lost, they must leave their comfortable home and adjust to a more modest lifestyle. As they navigate love and loss, Elinor embodies reason and restraint, while Marianne embraces passion and emotion. The sisters' journeys explore themes of love, social class, and the importance of family in 19th-century England, ultimately demonstrating the power of resilience and self-discovery.

About Sense and Sensibility
Scoreboard

Golden Globes 1996: Which Films Won the Most

Sense and Sensibility won 2 awards from 6 nominations. 12 films won at least once, while Apollo 13 went home empty-handed from 4 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Sense and Sensibility (1995) movie poster
    Sense and Sensibility 2 / 6
    1995 · Drama, Romance · 2 wins from 6 nominations
  2. The American President (1995) movie poster
    The American President 1 / 5
    1995 · Drama, Comedy · 1 win from 5 nominations
  3. Leaving Las Vegas (1995) movie poster
    Leaving Las Vegas 1 / 4
    1995 · Drama, Romance · 1 win from 4 nominations
  4. Braveheart (1995) movie poster
    Braveheart 1 / 4
    1995 · Action, Biography · 1 win from 4 nominations
  5. Get Shorty (1995) movie poster
    Get Shorty 1 / 3
    1995 · Thriller, Comedy · 1 win from 3 nominations
  6. To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) movie poster
    To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar 1 / 3
    1995 · Drama, Comedy · 1 win from 3 nominations
  7. Casino (1995) movie poster
    Casino 1 / 2
    1995 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 2 nominations
  8. Pocahontas (1995) movie poster
    Pocahontas 1 / 2
    1995 · Drama, History · 1 win from 2 nominations
  9. Les Misérables (1998) movie poster
    Les Misérables 1 / 1
    1998 · Drama, History · 1 win from 1 nomination
  10. Twelve Monkeys (1996) movie poster
    Twelve Monkeys 1 / 1
    1996 · Sci-Fi, Mystery · 1 win from 1 nomination
Full results

All 13 Golden Globes 1996 Categories: Winners & Nominees

13 categories and 63 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

13 categories · 63 nominations

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Golden Globes 1996 Best Foreign Language Film

1 nominee
Movie marathon

The Golden Globes 1996 Best Picture – Drama Marathon

All 6 Best Picture – Drama nominees at the 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996), back to back: 13 hours 16 minutes.

Total running time 13h 16m 13 hours 16 minutes All 6 films
Longest
Braveheart 2h 57m
Shortest
Babe: Pig in the City 1h 37m
By genre

The Genres Behind the Golden Globes 1996 Winners

Drama led with 51 nominations across 22 films and won 10. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 10 wins · 51 nominations · 20%
  2. Romance 8 wins · 29 nominations · 28%
  3. Comedy 4 wins · 25 nominations · 16%
  4. Crime 3 wins · 13 nominations · 23%
  5. History 3 wins · 12 nominations · 25%
  6. Biography 2 wins · 8 nominations · 25%
  7. Thriller 2 wins · 8 nominations · 25%
  8. Action 1 win · 7 nominations · 14%
  9. Adventure 0 wins · 7 nominations · 0%
  10. War 1 win · 6 nominations · 17%
1996 season

How the Rest of the 1996 Awards Season Voted

The other 9 ceremonies of 1996, with the winner of each top prize. Sense and Sensibility also won the top prize at 2 of them. Apollo 13 took as many.

All 1996 awards
Earlier years

Previous Golden Globes Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Golden Globes page has every year back to 1944.

Every Golden Globes ceremony

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Golden Globes 1996: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Picture – Drama at the 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996)?

Sense and Sensibility (1995) won Best Picture – Drama. The other nominees were Apollo 13, Braveheart, The Bridges of Madison County, Leaving Las Vegas and Babe: Pig in the City.

About Sense and Sensibility

Which film won the most awards at the 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996)?

Sense and Sensibility (1995) won the most: 2 awards from 6 nominations.

Which film had the most nominations at the 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996)?

Sense and Sensibility (1995) led with 6 nominations and won 2 of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996)?

Best Director: Mel Gibson for Braveheart. Best Actor – Drama: Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas. Best Actor – Musical or Comedy: John Travolta for Get Shorty. Best Actress – Drama: Sharon Stone for Casino. Best Actress – Musical or Comedy: Julie Newmar for To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy (Supporting Actor): Brad Pitt for Twelve Monkeys. Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy (Supporting Actress): Mira Sorvino for Mighty Aphrodite.

When was the 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996)?

The 53rd Golden Globe Awards (1996) took place on January 21, 1996. The database has 13 categories and 63 nominations for it.