Howards End – Ismail Merchant and James Ivory

• The Crying Game – Stephen Woolley and Neil Jordan
• The Player – David Brown, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler and Robert Altman
• Strictly Ballroom – Tristram Miall and Baz Luhrmann
• Unforgiven – Clint Eastwood

Robert Altman – The Player

• Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven
• James Ivory – Howards End
• Neil Jordan – The Crying Game

Robert Downey Jr. – Chaplin as Charlie Chaplin

• Daniel Day-Lewis – The Last of the Mohicans as Hawkeye/Nathaniel Poe/La Longue Carabine
• Stephen Rea – The Crying Game as Fergus
• Tim Robbins – The Player as Griffin Mill

Emma Thompson – Howards End as Margaret Schlegel

• Jessica Tandy – Fried Green Tomatoes as Ninny Threadgoode
• Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives as Sally Simmons
• Tara Morice – Strictly Ballroom as Fran

Gene Hackman – Unforgiven as Bill Daggett

• Jaye Davidson – The Crying Game as Dil
• Samuel West – Howards End as Leonard Bast
• Tommy Lee Jones – JFK as Clay Shaw/Clay Bertrand

Miranda Richardson – Damage as Ingrid Thompson-Fleming

• Helena Bonham Carter – Howards End as Helen Schlegel
• Kathy Bates – Fried Green Tomatoes as Evelyn Couch
• Miranda Richardson – The Crying Game as Jude

Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen

• The Crying Game – Neil Jordan
• Hear My Song – Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar
• Unforgiven – David Peoples

The Player – Michael Tolkin

• Howards End – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• JFK – Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar
• Strictly Ballroom – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce

The Last of the Mohicans – Dante Spinotti

• Cape Fear – Freddie Francis
• Howards End – Tony Pierce-Roberts
• Unforgiven – Jack N. Green

Strictly Ballroom – Angus Strathie and Catherine Martin

• Chaplin – John Mollo and Ellen Mirojnick
• Howards End – Jenny Beavan and John Bright
• The Last of the Mohicans – Elsa Zamparelli

JFK – Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia

• Cape Fear – Thelma Schoonmaker
• Howards End – Andrew Marcus
• The Player – Geraldine Peroni
• Strictly Ballroom – Jill Bilcock

The Last of the Mohicans – Peter Robb-King

• Batman Returns – Ve Neill and Stan Winston
• Chaplin – Wally Schneiderman, Jill Rockow and John Caglione Jr.
• Howards End – Christine Beveridge

Strictly Ballroom – David Hirschfelder

• Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
• Hear My Song – John Altman
• The Last of the Mohicans – Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman

Strictly Ballroom – Catherine Martin

• Chaplin – Stuart Craig
• Howards End – Luciana Arrighi
• The Last of the Mohicans – Wolf Kroeger

JFK – Tod A. Maitland, Wylie Stateman, Michael D. Wilhoit, Michael Minkler and Gregg Landaker

• The Last of the Mohicans – Simon Kaye, Lon Bender, Larry Kemp, Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith and Chris Jenkins
• Strictly Ballroom – Antony Gray, Ben Osmo, Roger Savage, Ian McLoughlin and Phil Judd
• Unforgiven – Alan Robert Murray, Walter Newman, Rob Young, Les Fresholtz, Vern Poore and Dick Alexander

Death Becomes Her – Michael Lantieri, Ken Ralston, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Doug Chiang and Doug Smythe

• Alien 3 – Richard Edlund, George Gibbs, Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr.
• Batman Returns – Michael Fink, John Bruno, Craig Barron and Dennis Skotak
• Beauty and the Beast – Randy Fullmer

The Crying Game – Stephen Woolley and Neil Jordan

Raise the Red Lantern – Chiu Fu-sheng and Zhang Yimou

• Delicatessen – Claudie Ossard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
• Europa Europa – Artur Brauner, Margaret Ménégoz and Agnieszka Holland
• Les Amants du Pont-Neuf – Christian Fechner and Leos Carax

Daumier's Law – Ginger Gibbons and Geoff Dunbar

• A Is for Autism – Dick Arnall and Tim Webb
• Blindscape – Stephen Palmer
• Soho Square – Pam Dennis, Sue Paxton and Mario Cavalli

Omnibus – Anne Bennet and Sam Karmann

• Heartsongs – Caroline Hewitt and Sue Clayton
• A Sense of History – Simon Channing Williams and Mike Leigh
• Two Chimney Sweeps in a Singer's House – Michel Caulea