1996 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Winner and Nominees

Leaving Las Vegas

Nicolas Cage

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera..

Dead Man Walking

Sean Penn

Il Postino: The Postman

Massimo Troisi

Mr. Holland’s Opus

Richard Dreyfuss

Nixon

Anthony Hopkins