Goodfellas – Irwin Winkler and Martin Scorsese
Crimes and Misdemeanors – Robert Greenhut and Woody Allen* Driving Miss Daisy – Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck and Bruce Beresford* Pretty Woman – Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther and Garry Marshall | Martin Scorsese – Goodfellas* Bruce Beresford – Driving Miss Daisy* Giuseppe Tornatore – Cinema Paradiso* Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors |
| Philippe Noiret – Cinema Paradiso as Alfredo* Robert De Niro – Goodfellas as James Conway* Sean Connery – The Hunt for Red October as Captain First Rank Marko Ramius* Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July as Ron Kovic | Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan* Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman as Vivian Ward* Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys as Susie Diamond* Shirley MacLaine – Postcards from the Edge as Doris Mann |
| Salvatore Cascio – Cinema Paradiso as Salvatore "Totò" Di Vita * Alan Alda – Crimes and Misdemeanors as Lester* Al Pacino – Dick Tracy as Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice* John Hurt – The Field as Bird O'Donnell | Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost as Oda Mae Brown* Anjelica Huston – Crimes and Misdemeanors as Dolores Paley* Billie Whitelaw – The Krays as Violet Kray* Shirley MacLaine – Steel Magnolias as Louisa Boudreaux |
| Cinema Paradiso – Giuseppe Tornatore* Crimes and Misdemeanors – Woody Allen* Ghost – Bruce Joel Rubin* Pretty Woman – J. F. Lawton | Goodfellas – Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese* Born on the Fourth of July – Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic* Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry* Postcards from the Edge – Carrie Fisher* The War of the Roses – Michael J. Leeson |
| The Sheltering Sky – Vittorio Storaro* Cinema Paradiso – Blasco Giurato* Glory – Freddie Francis* Goodfellas – Michael Ballhaus | Goodfellas – Richard Bruno* Cinema Paradiso – Beatrice Bulgari* Dick Tracy – Milena Canonero* Pretty Woman – Marilyn Vance |
| Goodfellas – Thelma Schoonmaker* Cinema Paradiso – Mario Morra* Crimes and Misdemeanors – Susan E. Morse* Dick Tracy – Richard Marks | Dick Tracy – John Caglione Jr. and Doug Drexler* Cinema Paradiso – Maurizio Trani* Ghost – Ben Nye Jr.* The Witches – Christine Beveridge and Jim Henson's Creature Shop |
| Cinema Paradiso – Ennio Morricone and Andrea Morricone* The Fabulous Baker Boys – Dave Grusin* Memphis Belle – George Fenton* Postcards from the Edge – Carly Simon | Dick Tracy – Richard Sylbert* Cinema Paradiso – Andrea Crisanti* The Hunt for Red October – Terence Marsh* The Sheltering Sky – Gianni Silvestri |
| The Fabulous Baker Boys – J. Paul Huntsman, Stephan Von Hase, Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander and Doug Hemphill* Dick Tracy – Dennis Drummond, Thomas Causey, Chris Jenkins, David E. Campbell and Doug Hemphill* The Hunt for Red October – Cecelia Hall, George Watters II, Richard Bryce Goodman and Don Bassman* Wild at Heart – Randy Thom, Richard Hymns, Jon Huck and David Parker | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids – Production Team* Dick Tracy – Production Team* Ghost – Production Team* Total Recall – Production Team |
| * Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius – Kevin Brownlow and David Gill* The Last African Flying Boat – David Wallace* Viewpoint: Cambodia, The Betrayal – A Special Report by John Pilger – David Munro* Viewpoint: Ceausescu's Children – Patricia Ingram | Cinema Paradiso – Franco Cristaldi and Giuseppe Tornatore* Jesus of Montreal – Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron and Denys Arcand* Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed – Jean-Louis Piel, Philippe Carcassonne and Coline Serreau* May Fools – Louis Malle |
| Toxic – Andrew McEwan* Deadsy – David Anderson* The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia – Jan Švankmajer | Say Goodbye – Michele Camarda and John Roberts* At the Border – Michael Drexler and Max Linder* Chicken – Julian Nott and Jo Shoop* Dear Rosie – Barnaby Thompson and Peter Cattaneo |