1996 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama 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

Mr. Holland’s Opus

Richard Dreyfuss

Nixon

Anthony Hopkins

Richard III

Ian McKellen