8th Golden Laurel Awards (1997)

Film

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

	The English Patient - Saul Zaentz
	Shine - Jane Scott
	Fargo - Ethan Coen
	Hamlet - David Barron
	The People vs. Larry Flynt - Oliver Stone, Janet Yang and Michael Hausman

Television

Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television

Law & Order - Dick Wolf, Edwin Sherin, Michael S. Chernuchin, René Balcer, Ed Zuckerman, Arthur W. Forney, Gardner Stern, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Lewis Gould, Billy Fox and Jeremy R. Littman

Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television

Prime Suspect: The Lost Child - Rebecca Eaton, Sally Head, Paul Marcus and Brian Park

Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Picture

Billy Wilder

Lifetime Achievement Award in Television

Edgar J. Scherick

Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures

Mission: Impossible - Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner

Most Promising Producer in Television

Touched by an Angel and Promised Land - Martha Williamson

Honorary Lifetime Membership Award

Norman Felton

Visionary Award - Theatrical Motion Pictures

The English Patient - Saul Zaentz

Visionary Award - Television

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century - Blaine Baggett, Jay Winter, and Carl Byker