56th British Academy Film Awards

The Pianist – Roman Polanski, Robert Benmusso and Alain Sarde

• Chicago – Martin Richards
• Gangs of New York – Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein
• The Hours – Scott Rudin and Robert Fox
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson

Roman Polanski – The Pianist

• Martin Scorsese – Gangs of New York
• Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Rob Marshall – Chicago
• Stephen Daldry – The Hours

Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York as William Cutting

• Adrien Brody – The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
• Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt
• Michael Caine – The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
• Nicolas Cage – Adaptation as Charlie Kaufman

Nicole Kidman – The Hours as Virginia Woolf

• Halle Berry – Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove
• Meryl Streep – The Hours as Clarissa Vaughan
• Renée Zellweger – Chicago as Roxie Hart
• Salma Hayek – Frida as Frida Kahlo

Christopher Walken – Catch Me If You Can as Frank Abagnale Sr.

• Alfred Molina – Frida as Diego Rivera
• Chris Cooper – Adaptation as John Laroche
• Ed Harris – The Hours as Richard Brown
• Paul Newman – Road to Perdition as John Rooney

Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago as Velma Kelly

• Julianne Moore – The Hours as Laura Brown
• Meryl Streep – Adaptation as Susan Orlean
• Queen Latifah – Chicago as Matron "Mama" Morton
• Toni Collette – About a Boy as Fiona Brewer

Talk to Her – Pedro Almodóvar

• Dirty Pretty Things – Steven Knight
• Gangs of New York – Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan
• The Magdalene Sisters – Peter Mullan
• Y Tu Mamá También – Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón

Adaptation – Charlie Kaufman

• About a Boy – Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
• Catch Me If You Can – Jeff Nathanson
• The Hours – David Hare
• The Pianist – Ronald Harwood

Road to Perdition – Conrad Hall

• Chicago – Dion Beebe
• Gangs of New York – Michael Ballhaus
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Andrew Lesnie
• The Pianist – Paweł Edelman

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor

• Catch Me If You Can – Mary Zophres
• Chicago – Colleen Atwood
• Frida – Julie Weiss
• Gangs of New York – Sandy Powell

City of God – Daniel Rezende

• Chicago – Martin Walsh
• Gangs of New York – Thelma Schoonmaker
• The Hours – Peter Boyle
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Michael J. Horton

Frida – Judy Chin, Beatrice De Alba, John E. Jackson and Regina Reyes

• Chicago – Jordan Samuel and Judi Cooper Sealy
• Gangs of New York – Manlio Rocchetti and Aldo Signoretti
• The Hours – Ivana Primorac, Conor O'Sullivan and Jo Allen
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Peter Owen, Peter King and Richard Taylor

The Hours – Philip Glass

• Catch Me If You Can – John Williams
• Chicago – Danny Elfman, John Kander and Fred Ebb
• Gangs of New York – Howard Shore, Robbie Robertson and The Edge
• The Pianist – Wojciech Kilar

Road to Perdition – Dennis Gassner

• Chicago – John Myhre
• Gangs of New York – Dante Ferretti
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Stuart Craig
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Grant Major

Chicago – Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella, David Lee and Maurice Schell

• Gangs of New York – Tom Fleischman, Ivan Sharrock, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Randy Thom, Dennis Leonard, John Midgley, Ray Merrin, Graham Daniel and Rick Kline
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Ethan Van der Ryn, David Farmer, Mike Hopkins, Hammond Peek, Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick and Michael Hedges
• The Pianist – Jean-Marie Blondel, Dean Humphreys and Gerard Hardy

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke

• Gangs of New York – Bruce Steinheimer, Michael Owens, Ed Hirsh and Jon Alexander
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Jim Mitchell, Nick Davis, John Richardson, Bill George and Nick Dudman
• Minority Report – Scott Farrar, Michael Lantieri, Nathan McGuinness and Henry LaBounta
• Spider-Man – John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier

The Warrior – Bertrand Faivre and Asif Kapadia

• Bend It Like Beckham – Deepak Nayar and Gurinder Chadha
• Dirty Pretty Things – Tracey Seaward, Robert Jones and Stephen Frears
• The Hours – Scott Rudin, Robert Fox and Stephen Daldry
• The Magdalene Sisters – Frances Higson and Peter Mullan

The Warrior – Asif Kapadia (Writer/Director)

• AKA – Duncan Roy (Writer/Director)
• Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry – Simon Bent (Writer)
• Lost in La Mancha – Lucy Darwin (Producer)

Fish Never Sleep – Gaelle Denis

• The ChubbChubbs! – Jacquie Barnbrook, Eric Armstrong and Jeff Wolverton
• The Dog Who Was a Cat Inside – Andrew Ruhemann, Siân Rees and Siri Melchoir
• Sap – Lucie Wenigerova and Kim Hyun-joo
• Wedding Espresso – Jonathan Bairstow, Sandra Ensby and Lesley Glaister

My Wrongs 8245–8249 & 117 – Mark Herbert and Chris Morris

• Bouncer – Natasha Carlish, Sophie Morgan, Michael Baig-Clifford and Geoff Thompson
• Candy Bar Kid – Benjamin Johns and Shan Khan
• Good Night – Yoac Factor and Chun Sun-young
• The Most Beautiful Man in the World – Hugh Welchman and Alicia Duffy
• Rank – Andrew O'Connell, David Yates and Robbie McCallum

Talk to Her – Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar

• City of God – Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Mauricio Andrade Ramos and Fernando Meirelles
• Devdas – Bharat Shah and Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• The Warrior – Bertrand Faivre and Asif Kapadia
• Y Tu Mamá También – Jorge Vergara and Alfonso Cuarón