1998 National Society of Film Critics Awards
33rd NSFC Awards
January 3, 1999
Best Film:
Out of Sight
The 33rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1999, honored the best filmmaking of 1998.
Contents
Winners
Best Picture
1. Out of Sight
2. Affliction
3. Saving Private Ryan
Best Director
1. Steven Soderbergh – Out of Sight
2. Terrence Malick – The Thin Red Line
2. Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan
Best Actor
1. Nick Nolte – Affliction
2. Ian McKellen – Gods and Monsters
3. Brendan Gleeson – The General and I Went Down
Best Actress
1. Ally Sheedy – High Art
2. Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth
3. Fernanda Montenegro – Central Station (Central do Brasil)
Best Supporting Actor
1. Bill Murray – Rushmore
2. Donald Sutherland – Without Limits
3. Billy Bob Thornton – A Simple Plan
Best Supporting Actress
1. Judi Dench – Shakespeare in Love
2. Patricia Clarkson – High Art
3. Lisa Kudrow – The Opposite of Sex
Best Screenplay
1. Scott Frank – Out of Sight
2. Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard – Shakespeare in Love
3. Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson – Rushmore
Best Cinematography
1. John Toll – The Thin Red Line
2. Janusz Kamiński – Saving Private Ryan
3. Seamus Deasy – The General
Best Foreign Language Film
1. Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass)
2. Fireworks (Hana-bi)
3. The Celebration (Festen)
Best Non-Fiction Film
1. The Farm: Angola, USA
2. Public Housing
3. Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Experimental Film
- Mother and Son (Mat i syn)
Special Citation
- Walter Murch, Rick Schmidlin, Bob O'Neil and Jonathan Rosenbaum for the re-editing of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil
- Reprinting of an expanded edition of one of the seminal collections of film criticism, Manny Farber's Negative Space
External links
References
- Out of Sight Called Best Film of '98 the New York Times
- Soderbergh ‘Sight’ right, crix cry Variety
- 'Out of Sight' Is Not Out of Mind With National Critics Los Angeles Times
- `Out Of Sight' Is Tops In Film Critics' Mind Chicago Tribune
- National film critics tap `Out of Sight' The Boston Globe
- Film critics come up with surprise for '98's best movie: `Out of Sight' The San Diego Union-Tribune
