L.A. Confidential

• The Sweet Hereafter
• Titanic

James Cameron — Titanic

• Curtis Hanson — L.A. Confidential
• Paul Thomas Anderson — Boogie Nights

Jack Nicholson — As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall

• Ian Holm — The Sweet Hereafter as Mitchell Stephens
• Peter Fonda — Ulee's Gold as Ulee Jackson

Judi Dench — Mrs Brown as Queen Victoria

• Helena Bonham Carter — The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy
• Kate Winslet — Titanic as Rose DeWitt Bukater

Burt Reynolds — Boogie Nights as Jack Horner

• Anthony Hopkins — Amistad as John Quincy Adams
• Rupert Everett — My Best Friend's Wedding as George Downes

Gloria Stuart — Titanic as Rose Dowson Calvert

• Joan Cusack — Grosse Pointe Blank as Marcella
• Julianne Moore — The Myth of Fingerprints as Mia

L.A. Confidential — Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson

• Boogie Nights — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Good Will Hunting — Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

Shall We Dance? • Japan — Masayuki Suo

• La Promesse • Belgium — Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
• Ponette • France — Jacques Doillon

4 Little Girls — Spike Lee

• Fast, Cheap & Out of Control — Errol Morris
• Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist — Kirby Dick