Jean de Florette – Claude Berri
Cry Freedom – Richard Attenborough* Hope and Glory – John Boorman* Radio Days – Robert Greenhut and Woody Allen | Oliver Stone – Platoon* Claude Berri – Jean de Florette* John Boorman – Hope and Glory* Richard Attenborough – Cry Freedom |
| Sean Connery – The Name of the Rose as William of Baskerville* Gary Oldman – Prick Up Your Ears as Joe Orton* Gérard Depardieu – Jean de Florette as Jean Cadoret* Yves Montand – Jean de Florette as Cesar Soubeyran | Anne Bancroft – 84 Charing Cross Road as Helene Hanff* Emily Lloyd – Wish You Were Here as Lynda Mansell* Julie Walters – Personal Services as Christine Painter* Sarah Miles – Hope and Glory as Grace Rowan |
| Daniel Auteuil – Jean de Florette as Ugolin* Ian Bannen – Hope and Glory as Grandfather George* John Thaw – Cry Freedom as Jimmy Kruger* Sean Connery – The Untouchables as Jimmy Malone | Susan Wooldridge – Hope and Glory as Molly* Dianne Wiest – Radio Days as Aunt Bea* Judi Dench – 84 Charing Cross Road as Nora Doel* Vanessa Redgrave – Prick Up Your Ears as Peggy Ramsay |
| Wish You Were Here – David Leland* Hope and Glory – John Boorman* Personal Services – David Leland* Radio Days – Woody Allen | Jean de Florette – Claude Berri and Gérard Brach* 84 Charing Cross Road – Hugh Whitemore* Little Dorrit – Christine Edzard* Prick Up Your Ears – Alan Bennett |
| Jean de Florette – Bruno Nuytten* Cry Freedom – Ronnie Taylor* Hope and Glory – Philippe Rousselot* Platoon – Robert Richardson | Radio Days – Jeffrey Kurland* Hope and Glory – Shirley Ann Russell* Little Dorrit – Sands Films* The Untouchables – Marilyn Vance |
| Platoon – Claire Simpson* Cry Freedom – Lesley Walker* Hope and Glory – Ian Crafford* Radio Days – Susan E. Morse | The Name of the Rose – Hasso Von Hugo* The Fly – Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis* Hope and Glory – Anna Dryhurst* Jean de Florette – Michele Dernelle and Jean-Pierre Eychenne |
| The Untouchables – Ennio Morricone* Cry Freedom – George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa* Hope and Glory – Peter Martin* Wish You Were Here – Stanley Myers | Radio Days – Santo Loquasto* Hope and Glory – Anthony D. G. Pratt* Jean de Florette – Bernard Vezat* The Untouchables – William A. Elliott |
| Cry Freedom – Jonathan Bates, Simon Kaye and Gerry Humphreys* Full Metal Jacket – Nigel Galf, Edward Tise and Andy Nelson* Hope and Glory – Ron Davis, Peter Handford and John Hayward* Radio Days – Bob Hein, James Sabat and Lee Dichter | The Witches of Eastwick – Michael Lantieri, Michael Owens, Edward Jones and Bruce Walters* The Fly – Chris Walas, Jon Berg, Louis Craig and Hoyt Yeatman* Full Metal Jacket – John Evans* Little Shop of Horrors – Bran Ferren, Martin Gutteridge, Lyle Conway and Richard Conway |
| Baka – People of the Rainforest – Phil Agland* Forty Minutes: Home from the Hill – Molly Dineen* Fourteen Days in May – Paul Hamann* Man-Eating Tigers / Saving the Tiger – Naresh Bedi | The Sacrifice – Anna-Lena Wibom and Andrei Tarkovsky* Jean de Florette – Claude Berri* Manon des Sources – Claude Berri* My Life as a Dog – Waldemar Bergendahl and Lasse Hallström |
| The Reluctant Dragon – Bridget Appleby* Fireman Sam – Ian Frampton and John Walker* The Shoe People – Tony Barnes and Clennell Rawson* The Wind in the Willows – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall | Artisten – Jonas Grimås* After Maria – Jean-Claude Robert* The Short and Curlies – Mike Leigh* Treacle – Peter Chelsom |