Listed here are the nominations for all categories (the award recipients appear at the top of each category in bold) but that for Lifetime Achievement. The nominees for that award are not released in advance.

The five judges are:
Suzi Baker
W. Paul Ganley
Tim Holman
Marvin Kaye
Melissa Scott

Novel
Thraxas, Martin Scott (Orbit)
Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle (Roc)
The Rainy Season, James P. Blaylock (Ace)
Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson (Bantam Press)
A Witness To Life, Terence M. Green (Forge)
A Red Heart of Memories, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace)

Novella
"The Transformation of Martin Lake", Jeff VanderMeer (Palace Corbie 8)
"Sky Eyes", Laurel Winter (F&SF 3/99)
"Scarlet and Gold", Tanith Lee (Weird Tales Summer 1999)
"The Wizard Retires", Michael Meddor (F&SF 9/99)
"Crocodile Rock", Lucius Shepard (F&SF 10-11/99)
"The Winds of Marble Arch", Connie Willis (Asimov's 10-11/99)

Short Fiction
"The Chop Girl", Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's 12/99)
"The Grammarian's Five Daughters", Eleanor Arnason (Realms of Fantasy 6/99)
"Naming the Dead", Paul J. McAuley (Interzone 11/99)
"Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue", Kim Newman (999)
"Human Bay", Robert Reed (Asimov's 5/99)
"The Parwat Ruby", Delia Sherman (F&SF 6/99)
"The Dynasters Vol. 1: On the Downs", Howard Waldrop (F&SF 10-11/99)

Anthology
Silver Birch, Blood Moon, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Avon)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)
Northern Frights 5, Don Hutchison, ed. (Mosaic Press)
Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths, Stephen Jones, ed. (Fedogan & Bremer)
999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, Al Sarrantonio, ed. (Avon)

Collection
Moonlight and Vines, Charles de Lint (Tor)
Reave the Just and Other Tales, Stephen R. Donaldson (Voyager; Bantam Spectra)
Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King (Scribner)
Deep Into that Darkness Peering, Tom Piccirilli (Terminal Fright Press)
Necromancies and Netherworlds, Darrell Schweitzer & Jason Van Hollander (Wildside Press)

Artist
Jason Van Hollander
Les Edwards
Bob Eggleton
Stephen E. Fabian

Special Award Professional
Gordon Van Gelder for editing (St. Martin's and F&SF)
Seamus Heaney for the new translation of Beowulf
Warren Lapine for DNA Publications
John Betancourt for Wildside Press
Stephen Jones for The Essential Monster Movie Guide
Kim Newman for Millennium Movies [US title: Apocalypse Movies]

Special Award Non-Professional
The British Fantasy Society
Ken Abner for Terminal Fright Press
Dwayne Olson, Peder Wagtskjold, Scott Wyatt for Fedogan & Bremer
Rosemary Pardoe for The Haunted Library
William K. Schafer for Subterranean Press
R.B. Russell for Tartarus Press