>1. Choreographer - William Forsythe,
2. Male Dancer - Jiri Bubenicek and Jeffrey Gerodias
3. Female dancer - Aurelie Dupont and Anastasia Volochkova
4. Life Achievement - Rudi Van Dantzig and Jurgen Rose

Ann, Jeffrey Gerodias is a dancer of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, while Jiri Bubenicek is a principal of the Hamburg Ballet.

According to my Moscow friend, the awards ceremony has provoked a lot of anger from the audience, especially William Forsythe's ballet "Street Dogs" (?) which was performed in the Gala. Also controversial was the awarding of prize of the best female dancer to Anastasia Volochkova.

>And though Volochkova's prize was predictable, the public obviously disagreed with the opinion of the jury, stamped their feet and whistled. I can't remember such reaction of public in Bolshoy! And it's a great pity that the prize wasn't given to Svetlana Zakharova.

At first this was intended to be a prize like the Oscar, but for dancers: best female dancer, best male dancer, best choreographer. Later they also nominated designers and composers, only to skip that category in the following years.
Maybe you are interested in the winners until now:

1992:
Nadeshda Gratsheva, Alexander Kolpin, Julio Bocca
John Neumeier

1993:
Isabelle Guérin, Andrej Uvarov
Jiri Kylián

1994:
Sylvie Guillem, Sergej Filin
Roland Petit

1995:
Galina Stepanienko, Dominique Khalfouni, Nicolas Le Riche
Angelin Preljocaj

1996:
Diana Visneva, Irek Mukhamedov, Vladimir Derevianko
Valentin Elisariev
George Kouroupos (Composer)

1997:
Uliana Lopatkina, Farukh Ruzimatov, Gregor Seyffert

1998:
Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Julia Makhalina, Manuel Legris, Vladimir Malakhov
Davide Bombana, Carolyn Carlson
Olivier Debre (Design)

1999:
Elisabeth Platel, Sue Jin Kang, Nikolaj Tsiskaridze
Jiri Kylián

2000:
Julie Kent, Alessandra Ferri, Angel Corella, Jean-Guillaume Bart
Nacho Duato
Jaffar Chalabi (Stage Design)
Brad Fields (Light Design)
Alicia Alonso (Lifetime Achievement)

No Prix Benois in 2001, as far as I know.

Interesting that both Altynai Asylmuratova and Nina Ananiashvili never received the Benois de la Danse - was that by Jurij Grigorovich's influence? This prize is still pretty much under the control of the former Bolshoi director.