The Full Monty – Uberto Pasolini
L.A. Confidential – Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson and Michael Nathanson* Mrs Brown – Sarah Curtis* Titanic – James Cameron and Jon Landau | Baz Luhrmann – Romeo + Juliet* Curtis Hanson – L.A. Confidential* James Cameron – Titanic* Peter Cattaneo – The Full Monty |
| Robert Carlyle – The Full Monty as Gary Schofield* Billy Connolly – Mrs Brown as John Brown* Kevin Spacey – L.A. Confidential as Jack Vincennes* Ray Winstone – Nil by Mouth as Raymond | Judi Dench – Mrs Brown as Queen Victoria* Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy* Kathy Burke – Nil by Mouth as Valerie* Kim Basinger – L.A. Confidential as Lynn Bracken |
| Tom Wilkinson – The Full Monty as Gerald Cooper* Burt Reynolds – Boogie Nights as Jack Horner* Mark Addy – The Full Monty as Dave Horsefall* Rupert Everett – My Best Friend's Wedding as George Downes | Sigourney Weaver – The Ice Storm as Janey Carver* Jennifer Ehle – Wilde as Constance Wilde* Lesley Sharp – The Full Monty as Jean Horsefall* Zoë Wanamaker – Wilde as Ada Leverson |
| Nil by Mouth – Gary Oldman* Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson* The Full Monty – Simon Beaufoy* Mrs Brown – Jeremy Brock | Romeo + Juliet – Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann* The Ice Storm – James Schamus* L.A. Confidential – Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson* The Wings of the Dove – Hossein Amini |
| The Wings of the Dove – Eduardo Serra* L.A. Confidential – Dante Spinotti* Romeo + Juliet – Donald McAlpine* Titanic – Russell Carpenter | Mrs Brown – Deirdre Clancy* L.A. Confidential – Ruth Myers* Titanic – Deborah Lynn Scott* The Wings of the Dove – Sandy Powell |
| L.A. Confidential – Peter Honess* The Full Monty – David Freeman and Nick Moore* Romeo + Juliet – Jill Bilcock* Titanic – Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron and Richard A. Harris | The Wings of the Dove – Sallie Jaye and Jan Archibald* L.A. Confidential – John M. Elliott Jr., Scott H. Eddo and Janis Clark* Mrs Brown – Lisa Westcott* Titanic – Tina Earnshaw, Simon Thompson, Kay Georgiou and Greg Cannom |
| Romeo + Juliet – Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries* The Full Monty – Anne Dudley* L.A. Confidential – Jerry Goldsmith* Titanic – James Horner | Romeo + Juliet – Catherine Martin* L.A. Confidential – Jeannine Oppewall* Mrs Brown – Martin Childs* Titanic – Peter Lamont |
| L.A. Confidential – Terry Rodman, Roland Thai, Kirk Francis, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and John Leveque* The Full Monty – Alastair Crocker, Adrian Rhodes and Ian Wilson* Romeo + Juliet – Gareth Vanderhope, Rob Young and Roger Savage* Titanic – Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers and Mark Ulano | The Fifth Element – Mark Stetson, Karen Goulekas, Nick Allder, Neil Corbould and Nick Dudman* The Borrowers – Peter Chiang* Men in Black – Eric Brevig, Rick Baker, Rob Coleman and Peter Chesney* Titanic – Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher and Michael Kanfer |
| Nil by Mouth – Luc Besson, Douglas Urbanski and Gary Oldman* The Borrowers – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Rachel Talalay and Peter Hewitt* The Full Monty – Uberto Pasolini and Peter Cattaneo* Mrs Brown – Sarah Curtis and John Madden* Regeneration – Allan Scott, Peter Simpson and Gillies MacKinnon* Twenty Four Seven – Imogen West and Shane Meadows | The Apartment – Georges Benayoun and Gilles Mimouni* Lucie Aubrac – Claude Berri* Ma vie en rose – Carole Scotta and Alain Berliner* The Tango Lesson – Christopher Sheppard and Sally Potter |
| Stage Fright – Helen Nabarro, Michael Rose and Steve Box* Flatworld – Nigel Pay, Daniel Greaves and Patrick Veale* Transit – Iain Harvey and Piet Kroon* The Traveller – Jeremy Moorshead and Debra Smith | The Deadness of Dad – Mandy Sprague, Philippa Cousins and Stephen Volk* Crocodile Snap – James Greville and Joe Wright* Gasman – Gavin Emerson and Lynne Ramsay* Little Sisters – Nic Murison and Andy Goddard |