43rd British Academy Film Awards

Dead Poets Society – Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas and Peter Weir

• My Left Foot – Noel Pearson and Jim Sheridan
• Shirley Valentine – Lewis Gilbert
• When Harry Met Sally... – Rob Reiner

Kenneth Branagh – Henry V

• Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning
• Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society
• Stephen Frears – Dangerous Liaisons

Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot as Christy Brown

• Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt
• Kenneth Branagh – Henry V as Henry V
• Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society as John Keating

Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine as Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw

• Glenn Close – Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
• Jodie Foster – The Accused as Sarah Tobias
• Melanie Griffith – Working Girl as Tess McGill

Ray McAnally – My Left Foot as Patrick Brown

• Jack Nicholson – Batman as Joker
• Marlon Brando – A Dry White Season as Ian McKenzie
• Sean Connery – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Henry Jones, Sr.

Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Liaisons as Madame Marie de Tourvel

• Laura San Giacomo – Sex, Lies, and Videotape as Cynthia Patrice Bishop
• Peggy Ashcroft – Madame Sousatzka as Lady Emily
• Sigourney Weaver – Working Girl as Katharine Parker

When Harry Met Sally... – Nora Ephron

• Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman
• Rain Man – Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh

Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton

• The Accidental Tourist – Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan
• My Left Foot – Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan
• Shirley Valentine – Willy Russell

Mississippi Burning – Peter Biziou

• The Bear – Philippe Rousselot
• Dangerous Liaisons – Philippe Rousselot
• Gorillas in the Mist – John Seale
• Henry V – Kenneth MacMillan

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Gabriella Pescucci

• Batman – Bob Ringwood
• Dangerous Liaisons – James Acheson
• Henry V – Phyllis Dalton

Mississippi Burning – Gerry Hambling

• Dangerous Liaisons – Mick Audsley
• Dead Poets Society – William M. Anderson
• Rain Man – Stu Linder

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Maggie Weston, Fabrizio Sforza and Pam Meager

• Batman – Paul Engelen and Nick Dudman
• Dangerous Liaisons – Jean-Luc Russier
• My Left Foot – Ken Jennings

Dead Poets Society – Maurice Jarre

• Dangerous Liaisons – George Fenton
• Mississippi Burning – Trevor Jones
• Working Girl – Carly Simon

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Dante Ferretti

• Batman – Anton Furst
• Dangerous Liaisons – Stuart Craig
• Henry V – Tim Harvey

Mississippi Burning – Bill Phillips, Danny Michael, Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson and Rick Kline

• Batman – Don Sharpe, Tony Dawe and Bill Rowe
• Henry V – Campbell Askew, David Crozier and Robin O'Donoghue
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Richard Hymns, Tony Dawe, Ben Burtt, Gary Summers and Shawn Murphy

Back to the Future Part II – Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell and Steve Gawley

• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Kent Houston and Richard Conway
• Batman – Derek Meddings and John Evans
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – George Gibbs, Michael J. McAlister, Mark Sullivan and John Ellis

First Tuesday: Four Hours in My Lai – Kevin Sim

• Everyman: Romania State of Fear – John Blake
• Lost Children of the Empire – Joonna Mack and Mike Fox
• Viewpoint 89: Cambodia Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger – David Munro

Life and Nothing But – Rene Cleitman and Bertrand Tavernier

• Pelle the Conqueror – Per Holst and Bille August
• Salaam Bombay! – Mira Nair
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar

A Grand Day Out – Nick Park

• Creature Comforts – Sara Mullock and Nick Park
• Egoli – Karen Kelly
• War Story – Sara Mullock and Peter Lord

The Candy Show – Peter Hewitt, David Freeman and Damian Jones

• Carmela Campo – Ariel Piluso, Carlos Toscano and Gabriel Enis
• Tight Trousers – Metin Hüseyin and Elaine Donnelly
• Uhloz – Isabelle Groulleart and Guy Jacques