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Sense and Sensibility
1995
· Movie
· 136 min
A
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #400
- IMDb #718
- Google retired #804
- Rotten Tomatoes #199
- Metacritic #292
- Letterboxd #886
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #182
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #517
- Metacritic Critics #462
- Metacritic Audience #276
- Criticker #647
- Douban #355
- Kinopoisk #467
- AlloCiné #955
- Trakt #660
Every rating
62–97
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97.
See the most agreed on films →After their father's death, the Dashwood sisters and their mother are left in reduced circumstances. They are forced to move to a modest cottage offered by a relative. The story follows the contrasting approaches of the sensible Elinor and the passionate Marianne to love, heartbreak, and survival within the strict social rules of Regency England.
Details
- Director
- Ang Lee
- Writer
- Emma Thompson
- Based on
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Mirage Enterprises
- Released
- 13 December 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $16.0M
- Box office
- $134.6M
- Awards
- 28 wins, 26 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 54 →8 major awards won · 28 wins from 54 nominations across 21 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1996 | Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) | Emma Thompson | Winner |
| Berlin International Film Festival 1996 | Golden Bear | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 1996 | Best Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 1996 | Best Film | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 1996 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 1996 | Best Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards 1996 | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role | Kate Winslet | Winner |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1996 | Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | Emma Thompson | Winner |
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Golden Globe Awards
6 nominations, 2 won
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
| Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Emma Thompson | Nominee |
| Best Director | Ang Lee | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Patrick Doyle | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Kate Winslet | Nominee |
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Film | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
Academy Awards
7 nominations, 1 won
| Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) | Emma Thompson | Winner |
| Best Actress | Emma Thompson | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Michael Coulter | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Jenny Beavan and John Bright | Nominee |
| Best Original Dramatic Score | Patrick Doyle | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Lindsay Doran | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Kate Winslet | Nominee |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role | Kate Winslet | Winner |
| Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet | Nominee |
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | Emma Thompson | Nominee |
Berlin International Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Golden Bear | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | Emma Thompson | Winner |
Directors Guild of America
1 nomination
| Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Ang Lee | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
12 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Emma Thompson | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Kate Winslet | Winner |
| Best Film | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Alan Rickman | Nominee |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Elizabeth Spriggs | Nominee |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Michael Coulter | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Jenny Beavan and John Bright | Nominee |
| Best Direction | Ang Lee | Nominee |
| Best Film Music | Patrick Doyle | Nominee |
| Best Makeup and Hair | Morag Ross, Jan Archibald | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Luciana Arrighi | Nominee |
Boston Society of Film Critics
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Director | Ang Lee | Winner |
| Best Film | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actress | Emma Thompson (also for Carrington ) | Winner |
| Best Director | Ang Lee | Winner |
| Top Ten Films | Sense and Sensibility | Winner |
Evening Standard British Film Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actress | Kate Winslet (also for Jude ) | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Emma Thompson (tied with John Hodge for Trainspotting ) | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Director | Ang Lee | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
Society of Texas Film Critics Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actress | Emma Thompson (also for Carrington ) | Winner |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
Deutscher Filmpreis
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Ang Lee | Winner |
London Critics Circle Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| British Screenwriter of the Year | Emma Thompson | Winner |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
USC Scripter Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| USC Scripter Award | Emma Thompson | Winner |
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
1 nomination, 1 won
| Film – Screenplay | Emma Thompson | Winner |
American Film Institute
2 nominations
| AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores | Sense and Sensibility | Nominee |
| AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies | Sense and Sensibility | Nominee |
British Society of Cinematographers
1 nomination
| Best Cinematography Award | Michael Coulter | Nominee |
Satellite Awards
1 nomination
| Best Classic DVD | Sense and Sensibility For the Classic Masterpiece Book & DVD set containing Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion and Little Women | Nominee |