The English Patient (Minghella)
Hamlet (Branagh)
Big Night (Tucci and Scott)
Secrets and Lies (Leigh)
Fargo (Coen)
Shine (Hicks)
Lone Star (Sayles)
Caught (Young)
Michael Collins (Jordan)
The Crucible (Hytner)
Everyone Says I Love You (Allen)
Evita (Parker)
Trainspotting (Boyle)
Emma (McGrath)
Breaking the Waves (von Trier)
Cold Comfort Farm (Schlesinger)
Angels and Insects (Haas)
Jerry Maguire (Crowe)
Mother (Brooks)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (Forman)
Fly Away Home (Ballard)

Ridicule (Leconte)
Antonia's Line (Gorris)
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (Sautet)
Brother of Sleep (Vilsmaier)

Best

English Language Film - The English Patient
Foreign Film - Ridicule
Director- Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
Original Screenplay - (1) John Sayles (Lone Star); (2) Stanley Tucci and Joseph Tropiano (Big Night)
Screenplay Adaptation - Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
Cinematography - Chris Menges (Michael Collins)
Film Editing - The English Patient
Original Music Score - Elliot Goldenthal (Michael Collins)

Actress - Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)
Others - Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies); Crissy Rock (Ladybird, Ladybird)*; Frances McDormand (Fargo); Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient); Madonna (Evita); Gwyneth Paltrow (Emma); Joan Allen (The Crucible); Juliette Binoche (The English Patient); Debbie Reynolds (Mother); Courtney Love (The People vs. Larry Flynt); Lili Taylor (I Shot Andy Warhol)

Actor - Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet)
Others - Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient); Geoffrey Rush (Shine); Edward Norton (Primal Fear); William Macy (Fargo); James Earl Jones (Cry the Beloved Country*); Liam Neeson (Michael Collins); Nathan Lane (The Birdcage); Michel Serrault (Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud); Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt); Paul Scofield (The Crucible).

*1995 film