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* No other nominees | 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 |