| Best Picture (Shortlist of 10)
1. Jerry Maguire 🏆
2. Fargo
3. Independence Day
4. From Dusk Till Dawn
5. Scream
6. Happy Gilmore
7. Primal Fear
8. Trainspotting
9. The Rock
10. Mission Impossible

| Best Director
1. The Coen Brothers (Fargo) 🏆
2. Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire)
3. Wes Craven (Scream)
4. Brian De Palma (Mission Impossible)
5. Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn)
6. The Wachowskis (Bound)
7. Danny Boyle (Trainspotting)
8. Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet)
9. Michael Bay (The Rock)
10. John Carpenter (Escape from L.A.)

| Best Actress
1. Frances McDormand (Fargo) 🏆
2. Diane Keaton (Marvin's Room)
3. Winona Ryder (The Crucible)
4. Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient)
5. Glenn Close (101 Dalmatians)

| Best Actor
1. Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire) 🏆
2. Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting)
3. Daniel Day-Lewis (The Crucible)
4. Will Smith (Independence Day)
5. Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient)

| Best Supporting Actress
1. Renée Zellweger (Jerry Maguire) 🏆
2. Juliette Binoche (The English Patient)
3. Laura Linney (Primal Fear)
4. Courtney Cox (Scream)
5. Frances McDormand (Primal Fear)

| Best Supporting Actor
1. Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire) 🏆
2. Steve Buscemi (Fargo)
3. Edward Norton (Primal Fear)
4. Willem Dafoe (The English Patient)
5. James Woods (Ghosts of Mississippi)

| Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Primal Fear🏆
2. Mission Impossible
3. Escape from L.A.
4. Romeo + Juliet
5. Space Jam

| Best Original Screenplay
1. Jerry Maguire🏆
2. Independence Day
3. Scream
4. From Dusk Till Dawn
5. Fargo

| Best Cinematography (Shortlist of 10)
1. Fargo 🏆
2. Independence Day
3. Scream
4. Twister
5. Mission Impossible
6. Escape from L.A.
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Romeo + Juliet
9. Primal Fear
10. The Cable Guy

| Best Production Design
1. Fargo 🏆
2. Mission Impossible
3. Twister
4. Independence Day
5. Space Jam

| Best Film Editing
1. Jerry Maguire 🏆
2. Independence Day
3. Happy Gilmore
4. Mission Impossible
5. Twister

| Best Costume Design
1. Fargo 🏆
2. From Dusk Till Dawn
3. Romeo + Juliet
4. Escape from L.A.
5. Primal Fear

| Best Makeup and Hairstyling 
1. Independence Day 🏆
2. Matilda
3. Space Jam
4. Romeo + Juliet
5. The Nutty Professor

| Best Sound Mixing
1. Mission Impossible 🏆
2. Fargo
3. Independence Day
4. Twister
5. Space Jam

| Best Sound Editing
1. Mission Impossible 🏆
2. Independence Day
3. Space Jam
4. Fargo
5. Twister

| Best Score
1. Independence Day 🏆
2. Mission Impossible
3. Scream
4. The Rock
5. From Dusk Till Dawn

| Best Song
1. Secret Garden (Jerry Maguire/Bruce Springsteen) 🏆
2. Because You Loved Me (Up Close & Personal/Diane Warren)

| Best Visual Effects (Shortlist of 10)
1. Independence Day 🏆
2. Mission Impossible
3. Fargo
4. Scream
5. Jerry Maguire
6. Happy Gilmore
7. Twister
8. Space Jam
9. Escape from L.A.
10. Romeo + Juliet

| Best Animated Feature
1. Space Jam 🏆
2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
3. James and the Giant Peach
4. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
5. Aladdin and the King of Thieves

| Best International Feature
1. Kolya 🏆

| Best Movie of 1996
1. Jerry Maguire 🏆