The 21st Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1995, were announced on 16 December 1995 and given on 15 January 1996.^[1]

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Runner-up: A Little Princess
• Best Director:
  • Mike Figgis – Leaving Las Vegas
  • Runner-up: Ang Lee – Sense and Sensibility
• Best Actor:
  • Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas
  • Runner-up: Anthony Hopkins – Nixon
• Best Actress:
  • Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas
  • Runner-up: Jennifer Jason Leigh – Georgia
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Don Cheadle – Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Runner-up: Kevin Spacey – Outbreak, Seven, Swimming with Sharks and The Usual Suspects
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Joan Allen – Nixon
  • Runner-up: Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite
• Best Screenplay:
  • Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
  • Runner-up: Mike Figgis – Leaving Las Vegas
• Best Cinematography:
  • Lü Yue – Shanghai Triad
  • Runner-up: Darius Khondji – Seven
• Best Production Design:
  • Bo Welch - A Little Princess
  • Runner-up: Gary Frutkoff – Devil in a Blue Dress
• Best Music Score:
  • Patrick Doyle – A Little Princess
  • Runner-up: Howard Shore – Seven
• Best Foreign-Language Film:
  • Wild Reeds (Les roseaux sauvages) • France
  • Runner-up: The Postman (Il postino) • Italy/France/Belgium
• Best Non-Fiction Film:
  • Crumb
  • Runner-up: Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
• Best Animation:
  • Toy Story
• The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  • Mark Rappaport – From the Journals of Jean Seberg
• New Generation Award:
  • Alfonso Cuarón – A Little Princess
• Career Achievement Award:
  • André de Toth