Sense and Sensibility – Lindsay Doran and Ang Lee
Babe – George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller and Chris Noonan* The Madness of King George – Stephen Evans, David Parfitt and Nicholas Hytner* The Usual Suspects – Bryan Singer and Michael McDonnell | Michael Radford – Il Postino: The Postman* Ang Lee – Sense and Sensibility* Mel Gibson – Braveheart* Nicholas Hytner – The Madness of King George |
| Nigel Hawthorne – The Madness of King George as King George III* Jonathan Pryce – Carrington as Lytton Strachey* Massimo Troisi – Il Postino: The Postman as Mario Ruoppolo* Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson | Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood* Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas as Sera* Helen Mirren – The Madness of King George as Queen Charlotte* Nicole Kidman – To Die For as Suzanne Stone-Maretto |
| Tim Roth – Rob Roy as Archibald Cunningham* Alan Rickman – Sense and Sensibility as Colonel Brandon* Ian Holm – The Madness of King George as Francis Willis* Martin Landau – Ed Wood as Bela Lugosi | Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood* Elizabeth Spriggs – Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Jennings* Joan Allen – Nixon as Pat Nixon* Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite as Linda Ash |
| The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie* Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath* Muriel's Wedding – P. J. Hogan* Seven – Andrew Kevin Walker | Trainspotting – John Hodge* Babe – George Miller and Chris Noonan* Il Postino: The Postman – Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli and Massimo Troisi* Leaving Las Vegas – Mike Figgis* The Madness of King George – Alan Bennett* Sense and Sensibility – Emma Thompson |
| Braveheart – John Toll* Apollo 13 – Dean Cundey* The Madness of King George – Andrew Dunn* Sense and Sensibility – Michael Coulter | Braveheart – Charles Knode* The Madness of King George – Mark Thompson* Restoration – James Acheson* Sense and Sensibility – Jenny Beavan and John Bright |
| The Usual Suspects – John Ottman* Apollo 13 – Mike Hill and Dan Hanley* Babe – Marcus D'Arcy and Jay Friedkin* The Madness of King George – Tariq Anwar | The Madness of King George – Lisa Westcott* Braveheart – Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison and Lois Burwell* Ed Wood – Ve Neill, Rick Baker and Yolanda Toussieng* Sense and Sensibility – Morag Ross and Jan Archibald |
| Il Postino: The Postman – Luis Bacalov* Braveheart – James Horner* The Madness of King George – George Fenton* Sense and Sensibility – Patrick Doyle | Apollo 13 – Michael Corenblith* Braveheart – Thomas E. Sanders* The Madness of King George – Ken Adam* Sense and Sensibility – Luciana Arrighi |
| Braveheart – Per Hallberg, Lon Bender, Brian Simmons, Andy Nelson, Scott Millan and Anna Behlmer* Apollo 13 – David MacMillan, Rick Dior, Scott Millan and Steve Pederson* GoldenEye – Jim Shields, David John, Graham V. Hartstone, John Hayward and Michael A. Carter* The Madness of King George – Christopher Ackland, David Crozier and Robin O'Donoghue | Apollo 13 – Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Matt Sweeney and Leslie Ekker* Babe – Scott E. Anderson, Neal Scanlan, John Cox, Chris Chitty and Charles Gibson* GoldenEye – Chris Corbould, Derek Meddings and Brian Smithies* Waterworld – Michael J. McAlister, Brad Kuehn, Robert Spurlock and Martin Bresin |
| The Madness of King George – Stephen Evans, David Parfitt and Nicholas Hytner* Carrington – Ronald Shedlo, John McGrath and Christopher Hampton* Land and Freedom – Rebecca O'Brien and Ken Loach* Trainspotting – Andrew Macdonald and Danny Boyle | Il Postino: The Postman – Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele and Michael Radford* Burnt by the Sun – Nikita Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux* La Reine Margot – Pierre Grunstein and Patrice Chéreau* Les Misérables – Claude Lelouch |
| A Close Shave – Carla Shelley, Michael Rose and Nick Park* Achilles – Glenn Holberton and Barry Purves* Gogs Ogof – Deinial Morris and Michael Mort* The Tickler Talks – Steven Harding-Hill | It's Not Unusual – Asmaa Pirzada and Kfir Yefet* Cabbage – Noelle Pickford and David Stewart* Hello, Hello, Hello – Helen Booth, James Roberts and David Thewlis* The Last Post – Neris Thomas and Edward Blum |