Best Picture
Beauty and the Beast	Bugsy	JFK	The Prince of Tides	The Silence of the Lambs

Best Actor
Bugsy	Cape Fear	The Fisher King	The Prince of Tides	The Silence of the Lambs
Warren Beatty	Robert De Niro	Robin Williams	Nick Nolte	Anthony Hopkins

Best Actress
For the Boys	Rambling Rose	The Silence of the Lambs	Thelma & Louise	Thelma & Louise
Bette Midler	Laura Dern	Jodie Foster	Susan Sarandon	Geena Davis

Best Supporting Actor
Barton Fink	Bugsy	Bugsy	City Slickers	JFK
Michael Lerner	Ben Kingsley	Harvey Keitel	Jack Palance	Tommy Lee Jones

Best Supporting Actress
Cape Fear	The Fisher King	Fried Green Tomatoes	The Prince of Tides	Rambling Rose
Juliette Lewis	Mercedes Ruehl	Jessica Tandy	Kate Nelligan	Diane Ladd

Best Director
Boyz N the Hood	Bugsy	JFK	The Silence of the Lambs	Thelma & Louise
John Singleton	Barry Levinson	Oliver Stone	Jonathan Demme	Ridley Scott

Best Original Screenplay
Boyz N the Hood	Bugsy	The Fisher King	Grand Canyon	Thelma & Louise
John Singleton	James Toback	Richard LaGravenese	Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan	Callie Khouri

Best Adapted Screenplay
Europa Europa	Fried Green Tomatoes	JFK	The Prince of Tides	The Silence of the Lambs
Agnieszka Holland	Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski	Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar	Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston	Ted Tally

Best Cinematography
Bugsy	JFK	The Prince of Tides	Terminator 2: Judgement Day	Thelma & Louise
Allen Daviau	Robert Richardson	Stephen Goldblatt	Adam Greenberg	Adrian Biddle

Best Art Direction
Barton Fink	Bugsy	The Fisher King	Hook	The Prince of Tides
Dennis Gassner, Nancy Haigh	Dennis Gassner, Nancy Haigh	Mel Bourne, Cindy Carr	Norman Garwood, Garrett Lewis	Paul Sylbert, Caryl Heller

Best Costume Design
The Addams Family	Barton Fink	Bugsy	Hook	Madame Bovary
Ruth Myers	Richard Hornung	Albert Wolsky	Anthony Powell	Corinne Jorry

Best Sound
Backdraft	Beauty and the Beast	JFK	The Silence of the Lambs	Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Gary Summers, Randy Thom, Gary Rydstrom, Glenn Williams	Terry Porter, Mel Metcalfe, David J. Hudson, Doc Kane	Michael Minkler, Gregg Landaker, Tod A. Maitland	Tom Fleischman, Christopher Newman	Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff

Best Editing
The Commitments	JFK	The Silence of the Lambs	Terminator 2: Judgement Day	Thelma & Louise
Gerry Hambling	Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia	Craig McKay	Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris	Thom Noble

Best Sound Editing
Backdraft	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns	George Watters II, F. Hudson Miller	Gary Rydstrom, Gloria S. Borders

Best Visual Effects
Backdraft	Hook	Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Mikael Salomon, Allen Hall, Clay Pinney, Scott Farrar	Eric Brevig, Harley Jessup, Mark Sullivan, Michael Lantieri	Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr., Robert Skotak

Best Makeup
Hook	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Christina Smith, Monty Westmore, Greg Cannom	Michael Mills, Ed French, Richard Snell	Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn

Best Original Song
Beauty and the Beast	Beauty and the Beast	Beauty and the Beast	Hook	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Belle	Be Our Guest	Beauty and the Beast	When You're Alone	(Everything I Do) I Do It for You

Best Original Score
Beauty and the Beast	Bugsy	The Fisher King	JFK	The Prince of Tides
Alan Menken	Ennio Morricone	George Fenton	John Williams	James Newton Howard