1996 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Winner
![Leaving Las Vegas Nicolas Cage](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/leaving-las-vegas-mike-figgis-image.jpg)
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..
1996 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Nominees
![Dead Man Walking Sean Penn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dead-man-walking-tim-robbins-image.jpg)
Dead Man Walking
Sean Penn
![Mr. Holland's Opus Richard Dreyfuss](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mr.-hollands-opus-stephen-herek-image.jpg)
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Richard Dreyfuss
![Nixon Anthony Hopkins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/nixon-oliver-stone-image.jpg)
Nixon
Anthony Hopkins
![Richard III Ian McKellen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/richard-iii-richard-loncraine-image.jpg)