| If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Anne Heche | United States |
| The Next Best Thing | John Schlesinger | United States |
| Hanging Up | Diane Keaton | United States |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | France |
| Joe Gould's Secret | Stanley Tucci | United States |
| You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan | United States |
| The Happy Funeral Director | — | South Korea |
| The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan | United States |
| Random Hearts | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| The Iron Giant | Brad Bird | United States |
| Roaring Across the Horizon | Chen Guoxing | People's Republic of China |
| Lima: Breaking the Silence | Menahem Golan | United States |
| Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom |
| Paradise Mall | Friedemann Fromm | Germany |
| Pan Tadeusz | Andrzej Wajda | France, Poland |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Michael Hoffman | United States, Italy |
| The Last Days of Disco | Whit Stillman | United States |
| But I'm a Cheerleader | Jamie Babbit | United States |
| Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States |
| Black and White | James Toback | United States |
| The Best Man | Malcolm D. Lee | United States |
| Outside Providence | Michael Corrente | United States |
| Fly Me to Polaris | Jingle Ma | Hong Kong |
| Runaway Bride | Garry Marshall | United States |
| The Way We Laughed | Gianni Amelio | Italy |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | United States |
| The Voroshilov Shooter | Stanislav Govorukhin | Russia |
| Beloved | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| Arlington Road | Mark Pellington | United States |
| Mifune's Last Song | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Sweden, Denmark |
| He Got Game | Spike Lee | United States |
| Meet Joe Black | Martin Brest | United States |
| Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | United Kingdom, United States |
| 54 | Mark Christopher | United States |
| Bent | Sean Mathias | United Kingdom, Japan |
| Pleasantville | Gary Ross | United States |
| Show Me Love | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden, Denmark |
| Black Dog | Kevin Hooks | France, Germany, United States |
| The Horse Whisperer | Robert Redford | United States |
| Simon Birch | Mark Steven Johnson | United States |
| Train of Life | Radu Mihăileanu | France, Romania, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel |
| Rounders | John Dahl | United States |
| Firelight | William Nicholson | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Cabaret Balkan | Goran Paskaljević | France, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| The Wings of the Dove | Iain Softley | United Kingdom, United States |
| Basil | Radha Bharadwaj | United Kingdom |
| Deep Impact | Mimi Leder | United States |
| Composition for Victory Day | Sergei Ursuliak | Russia |