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• Braveheart, Written by Randall Wallace
  • Clueless, Written by Amy Heckerling
  • Muriel's Wedding, Written by P.J. Hogan
  • Mighty Aphrodite, Written by Woody Allen
  • The American President, Written by Aaron Sorkin

• Sense and Sensibility, Screenplay by Emma Thompson; based on the novel by Jane Austen
  • Leaving Las Vegas, Screenplay by Mike Figgis; based on the novel by John O'Brien
  • Apollo 13, Screenplay by William Broyles Jr, and Al Reinert; based on the book by Jim Lovell, and Jeffrey Kluger
  • Babe, Screenplay by George Miller, and Chris Noonan; based on the novel by Dick King-Smith
  • Get Shorty, Screenplay by Scott Frank; based on the novel by Elmore Leonard

• "The Matchmaker" – Frasier (NBC) – Joe Keenan
  • "The Club" – Frasier (NBC) – Elias Davis, and David Pollock
  • "The One Where Underdog Gets Away" – Friends (NBC) – Jeff Greenstein, and Jeff Strauss
  • "Our Fifteen Minutes" – Mad About You (NBC) – Jack Burditt
  • "The Ride Home" – Mad About You (NBC) – Liz Coe
  • "Hank's New Assistant" – The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) – John Riggi
  • "Arthur After Hours" – The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) – Peter Tolan
  • "Roseanne's Return" – The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) – Maya Forbes, Steven Levitan, and Garry Shandling

• "Lover's Labor Lost" – ER (NBC) – Lance Gentile
  • "Fits Like a Glove" – Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC) – Bonnie Mark, Tom Fontana, and Julie Martin
  • "Saint Zach" – Picket Fences (CBS) – Nick Harding, and David E. Kelley
  • "Duane Barry" – The X-Files (FOX) – Chris Carter

• General Hospital (ABC) – Claire Labine, Matt Labine, Eleanor Mancusi, Meg Bennett, Ralph Ellis, Michele Val Jean, Stephanie Braxton, Karen Harris, Lewis Arlt, Judith Pinsker
• All my Children (ABC) – Agnes Nixon, Hal Corley, Frederick Johnson, N. Gail Lawrence, Jeff Beldner, Karen Lewis, Elizabeth Smith, Michelle Patrick, Bettina F. Bradbury, Pete T. Rich, Judith Donato, Megan McTavish
• Another World (NBC) – Carolyn Culliton, Janet Iacobuzio, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Lorraine Broderick, Victor Miller, Mimi Leahey, Peter Brash, Sharon Epstein, Sofia Landon Geier, Kathy Ebel, Elizabeth Page, Kathleen Kennedy
• Guiding Light (CBS) – James H. Brown, Craig Carlson, Michael Conforti, Stephen Demorest, Barbara Esensten, Jeannie Glynn, Tom King, Kathleen Klein, Megan McTavish, Lynda Myles, Roger Newman, Courtney Simon, Peggy Sloane, Nancy Williams Watt

• "24 Hours" – ER (NBC) – Michael Crichton
  • A Father for Charlie (CBS) – H. Haden Yelin
  • Lily in Winter – Robert Eisele, J. Michael Riva, Julie Moskowitz, and Gary Stephens
  • Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC) – Alison Cross

• Citizen X (HBO) – Chris Gerolmo
  • Joseph (TNT) – Lionel Chetwynd

• "Stand Up" – CBS Schoolbreak Special (CBS) – Gordong Rayfield
  • "Sharks, Beakmania & Einstein" – Beakman's World (CBS) – Philip J. Walsh, Barry Friedman, Mark Waxman, Richard Albrecht, and Casey Keller
  • "Between Mother and Daughter" – CBS Schoolbreak Special (CBS) – Pamela Douglas
  • "A Baby Worm Is Born" – Sesame Street (PBS) – Tony Geiss

• "Episode #8" – Dennis Miller Live (HBO) – Eddie Feldmann, Jeff Cesario, Ed Driscoll, David Feldman, Gregory Greenberg, Dennis Miller, and Kevin Rooney
  • AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steven Spielberg (NBC) – Robert Shrum, and George Stevens Jr.

• "The Nature of Human Nature" – The Human Quest – Roger Bingham, and Carl Byker
  • "The Rage Over Welfare" – 48 Hours (CBS) – Greg Kandra
  • "Rush Lumbaugh's America" – Frontline (PBS) – Stephen Talbot
  • "Currents of Fear" – Frontline (PBS) – Jon Palfreman

• The Way West (PBS) – Ric Burns
  • "FDR: Part 1" – American Experience (PBS) – David Grubin
  • "The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle" – American Experience (PBS) – Thomas Lennon, and Mark Zwonitzer
  • Frederick Douglas: When the Lion Wrote History (PBS) – Steve Fayer, and Theodore Thomas

• 48 Hours: No Place to Hide (CBS) – Greg Kandra

• • The 442nd (ABC Radio) – Mike Silvestein

• • World News This Week (ABC Radio) – Stephen B. Jones

• • PBS & CBS Promotions – Susan Meredith Lay

• • CBS Graphic Animation (CBS) – Karen McInnis

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