Dead Poets Society – Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas and Peter Weir
My Left Foot – Noel Pearson and Jim Sheridan* Shirley Valentine – Lewis Gilbert* When Harry Met Sally... – Rob Reiner | Kenneth Branagh – Henry V* Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning* Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society* Stephen Frears – Dangerous Liaisons |
| Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot as Christy Brown* Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt* Kenneth Branagh – Henry V as Henry V* Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society as John Keating | Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine as Shirley Valentine* Glenn Close – Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil* Jodie Foster – The Accused as Sarah Tobias* Melanie Griffith – Working Girl as Tess McGill |
| Ray McAnally – My Left Foot as Patrick Brown* Jack Nicholson – Batman as Joker / Jack Napier* Marlon Brando – A Dry White Season as Ian McKenzie* Sean Connery – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Henry Jones, Sr. | Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Liaisons as Madame Marie de Tourvel* Laura San Giacomo – Sex, Lies, and Videotape as Cynthia Patrice Bishop* Peggy Ashcroft – Madame Sousatzka as Lady Emily* Sigourney Weaver – Working Girl as Katharine Parker |
| When Harry Met Sally... – Nora Ephron* Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman* Rain Man – Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow* Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh | Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton* The Accidental Tourist – Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan* My Left Foot – Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan* Shirley Valentine – Willy Russell |
| Mississippi Burning – Peter Biziou* The Bear – Philippe Rousselot* Dangerous Liaisons – Philippe Rousselot* Gorillas in the Mist – John Seale* Henry V – Kenneth MacMillan | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Gabriella Pescucci* Batman – Bob Ringwood* Dangerous Liaisons – James Acheson* Henry V – Phyllis Dalton |
| Mississippi Burning – Gerry Hambling* Dangerous Liaisons – Mick Audsley* Dead Poets Society – William M. Anderson* Rain Man – Stu Linder | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Maggie Weston, Fabrizio Sforza and Pam Meager* Batman – Paul Engelen and Nick Dudman* Dangerous Liaisons – Jean-Luc Russier* My Left Foot – Ken Jennings |
| Dead Poets Society – Maurice Jarre* Dangerous Liaisons – George Fenton* Mississippi Burning – Trevor Jones* Working Girl – Carly Simon | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Dante Ferretti* Batman – Anton Furst* Dangerous Liaisons – Stuart Craig* Henry V – Tim Harvey |
| Mississippi Burning – Bill Phillips, Danny Michael, Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson and Rick Kline* Batman – Don Sharpe, Tony Dawe and Bill Rowe* Henry V – Campbell Askew, David Crozier and Robin O'Donoghue* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Richard Hymns, Tony Dawe, Ben Burtt, Gary Summers and Shawn Murphy | Back to the Future Part II – Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell and Steve Gawley* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Kent Houston and Richard Conway* Batman – Derek Meddings and John Evans* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – George Gibbs, Michael J. McAlister, Mark Sullivan and John Ellis |
| First Tuesday: Four Hours in My Lai – Kevin Sim* Everyman: Romania State of Fear – John Blake* Lost Children of the Empire – Joanna Mack and Mike Fox* Viewpoint 89: Cambodia Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger – David Munro | Life and Nothing But – René Cleitman and Bertrand Tavernier* Pelle the Conqueror – Per Holst and Bille August* Salaam Bombay! – Mira Nair* Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar |
| A Grand Day Out – Nick Park* Creature Comforts – Sara Mullock and Nick Park* Egoli – Karen Kelly* War Story – Sara Mullock and Peter Lord | The Candy Show – Peter Hewitt, David Freeman and Damian Jones* Carmela Campo – Ariel Piluso, Carlos Toscano and Gabriel Enis* Tight Trousers – Metin Hüseyin and Elaine Donnelly* Uhloz – Isabelle Groulleart and Guy Jacques |