69th Academy Awards (1997)

Best Picture

The English Patient
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Secrets and Lies
Shine

Best Director

The English Patient - Anthony Minghella
Fargo - Joel Coen
The People vs. Larry Flynt - Milos Forman
Shine - Scott Hicks
Secrets And Lies - Mike Leigh

Best Original Screenplay

Fargo - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Jerry Maguire - Cameron Crowe
Lone Star - John Sayles
Secrets And Lies - Mike Leigh
Shine - Jan Sardi, Scott Hicks

Best Adapted Screenplay

Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The English Patient - Anthony Minghella
Hamlet - Kenneth Branagh
Trainspotting - John Hodge

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Shine - Geoffrey Rush
Jerry Maguire - Tom Cruise
The English Patient - Ralph Fiennes
The People vs. Larry Flynt - Woody Harrelson
Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Fargo - Frances McDormand
Secrets And Lies - Brenda Blethyn
Marvin's Room - Diane Keaton
The English Patient - Kristin Scott Thomas
Breaking the Waves - Emily Watson

Best Supporting Actor

Jerry Maguire - Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Fargo - William H. Macy
Shine - Armin Mueller-Stahl
Primal Fear - Edward Norton
Ghosts of Mississippi - James Woods

Best Supporting Actress

The English Patient - Juliette Binoche
The Crucible - Joan Allen
The Mirror Has Two Faces - Lauren Bacall
The Portrait of a Lady - Barbara Hershey
Secrets And Lies - Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Best Art Direction

The English Patient - Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan
The Birdcage - Bo Welch, Cheryl Carasik
Evita - Brian Morris, Philippe Turlure
Hamlet - Tim Harvey
William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet - Catherine Martin, Brigitte Broch

Best Cinematography

The English Patient - John Seale
Evita - Darius Khondji
Fargo - Roger Deakins
Fly Away Home - Caleb Deschanel
Michael Collins - Chris Menges

Best Original Song

Evita for "You Must Love Me"
The Mirror Has Two Faces for "I Finally Found Someone"
One Fine Day for "For the First Time"
That Thing You Do! for "That Thing You Do!"
Up Close And Personal for "Because You Loved Me"

Best Sound Mixing

The English Patient
Evita
Independence Day
The Rock
Twister

Best Sound Editing

The Ghost and the Darkness - Bruce Stambler
Daylight - Richard L. Anderson, David A. Whittaker
Eraser - Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman

Best Visual Effects

Independence Day
Dragonheart
Twister

Best Costume Design

The English Patient - Ann Roth
Angels and Insects - Paul Brown
Hamlet - Alexandra Byrne
Emma - Ruth Myers
The Portrait of a Lady - Janet Patterson

Best Makeup

The Nutty Professor - Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson
Ghosts of Mississippi - Matthew W.Mangle, Deborah La Mia Denaver
Star Trek: First Contact - Michael Westmore, Scott Wheeler, Jake Garber

Best Animated Short Film

Quest - Tyron Montgomery, Thomas Stellmach
Canhead - Timothy Hittle
La Salla - Richard Condie
Wat's Pig - Peter Lord

Best Documentary Feature

When We Were Kings
The Line King - The Al Hirschfeld Story
Mandela
Suzanne Farrell - Elusive Muse
Tell the Truth and Run - George Seldes and the American Press

Best Documentary Short Subject

Breathing Lessons - The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Cosmic Voyage
An Essay on Matisse
Special Effects - Anything Can Happen
The Wild Bunch - An Album in Montage

Best Foreign Language Film

Kolya
Kavkazkij plennik
A Chef in Love
Ridicule
Ridicule
Sondagsengler

Best Live Action Short Film

Dear Diary - David Frankel, Barry Jossen
De tripas, corazón - Antonio Urrutia
Ernst And lyset - Kim Magnusson, Anders Thomas Jensen
Esposados - Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Senza parole - Bernadette Carranza, Antonello De Leo

Best Film Editing

The English Patient - Walter Murch
Evita - Gerry Hambling
Fargo - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Jerry Maguire - Joe Hutshing
Shine - Pip Karmel