- Road to Perdition, Dreamworks Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox present a Zanuck Company production ; producers, Richard D. Zanuck, Dean Zanuck, Sam Mendes ; screenplay writer, David Self ; director, Sam Mendes
- Big fish, Columbia Pictures Corporation ; The Zanuck Company ; Jinks/Cohen Company ; producers, Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Richard D. Zanuck ; screenplay, John August ; director, Tim Burton
- The man who wasn't there, USA Films presents a Working Title production ; producer, Ethan Coen ; writers, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen ; director, Joel Coen
- The ladykillers, Touchstone Pictures presents a Tom Jacobson production ; produced by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Tom Jacobson, Barry Sonnenfeld, Barry Josephson ; written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen