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