A Room with a View – Ismail Merchant and James Ivory
Hannah and Her Sisters – Robert Greenhut and Woody Allen* The Mission – Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam and Roland Joffé* Mona Lisa – Stephen Woolley, Patrick Cassavetti and Neil Jordan | Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters* James Ivory – A Room with a View* Neil Jordan – Mona Lisa* Roland Joffé – The Mission |
| Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa as George* Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot* Paul Hogan – Crocodile Dundee as Michael Dundee* Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters as Mickey | Maggie Smith – A Room with a View as Charlotte Bartlett* Cathy Tyson – Mona Lisa as Simone* Meryl Streep – Out of Africa as Karen Blixen* Mia Farrow – Hannah and Her Sisters as Hannah |
| Ray McAnally – The Mission as Cardinal Altamirano* Denholm Elliott – A Room with a View as Emerson* Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of Africa as Bror and Hans* Simon Callow – A Room with a View as Beebe | Judi Dench – A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish* Barbara Hershey – Hannah and Her Sisters as Lee* Rosanna Arquette – After Hours as Marcy Franklin* Rosemary Leach – A Room with a View as Mrs. Honeychurch |
| Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen* Crocodile Dundee – Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell* The Mission – Robert Bolt* Mona Lisa – Neil Jordan and David Leland | Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke* Children of a Lesser God – Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff* The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes* Ran – Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni and Masato Ide* A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Out of Africa – David Watkin* The Mission – Chris Menges* Ran – Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda* A Room with a View – Tony Pierce-Roberts | A Room with a View – Jenny Beavan and John Bright* The Mission – Enrico Sabbatini* Out of Africa – Milena Canonero* Ran – Emi Wada |
| The Mission – Jim Clark* Hannah and Her Sisters – Susan E. Morse* Mona Lisa – Lesley Walker* A Room with a View – Humphrey Dixon | Ran – Shohichiro Meda, Tameyuki Aimi, Chihako Naito and Noriko Takamizawa* Aliens – Peter Robb-King* Dreamchild – Jenny Shircore* Sid and Nancy – Peter Frampton |
| The Mission – Ennio Morricone* Out of Africa – John Barry* A Room with a View – Richard Robbins* Round Midnight – Herbie Hancock | A Room with a View – Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow* Aliens – Peter Lamont* The Mission – Stuart Craig* Ran – Yoshirō Muraki and Shinobu Muraki |
| Out of Africa – Tom McCarthy Jr., Peter Handford and Chris Jenkins* Aliens – Don Sharpe, Roy Charman and Graham V. Hartstone* The Mission – Ian Fuller, Bill Rowe and Clive Winter* A Room with a View – Tony Lenny, Ray Beckett and Richard King | Aliens – Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson, Stan Winston and Suzanne M. Benson* Dreamchild – Duncan Kenworthy, John Stephenson and Chris Carr* Labyrinth – Roy Field, Brian Froud, George Gibbs and Tony Dunsterville* The Mission – Peter Hutchinson |
| Shoah – Claude Lanzmann* British Cinema: Personal View A Turnip Head's Guide to the British Cinema – Alan Parker* Equinox: Prisoner of Consciousness – John Dollar* Forty Minutes: The Fishing Party – Paul Watson* Omnibus: The Mission – Robin Laugh* Viewpoint 86: Afghanistan: The Agony of a Nation – Sandy Gall | Ran – Serge Silberman, Masato Hara and Akira Kurosawa* Betty Blue – Jean-Jacques Beineix* Ginger and Fred – Alberto Grimaldi and Federico Fellini* Otello – Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus and Franco Zeffirelli |
| SuperTed – David Edwards and Robin Lyons* Danger Mouse – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall* Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey – David Hiller* Paddington Goes to School – Martin Pullen* Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends – Robert D. Cardona and David Mitton* The Wind in the Willows – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall | La Boule – Simon Shore* King's Christmas – Graham Dixon* Mohammed's Daughter – Suri Krishnamma* Night Movie – Gur Heller |