title: Online Film Critics Society Awards 1998
text: # Online Film Critics Society Awards 1998
  
  2nd Online Film Critics Society Awards
  
  January 3, 1999
  
  Best Film:
  
  Saving Private Ryan
  
  The 2nd Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 1998, were given on 3 January 1999.
  
  ## Winners and nominees
  
  | Best Picture Saving Private Ryan Life Is Beautiful The Truman Show | Best Director Steven Spielberg — Saving Private Ryan Peter Weir — The Truman Show Terrence Malick — The Thin Red Line |
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  | Best Actor Ian McKellen — Gods and Monsters as James Whale Edward Norton — American History X as Derek Vinyard Tom Hanks — Saving Private Ryan as Captain John Miller | Best Actress Cate Blanchett — Elizabeth as Elizabeth I Emily Watson — Hilary and Jackie as Jacqueline du Pré Gwyneth Paltrow — Shakespeare in Love as Viola de Lesseps |
  | Best Supporting Actor Billy Bob Thornton — A Simple Plan as Jacob Mitchell Ed Harris — The Truman Show as Christof Jason Patric — Your Friends & Neighbors as Cary | Best Supporting Actress Joan Allen — Pleasantville as Betty Parker Kathy Bates — Primary Colors as Libby Holden Lisa Kudrow — The Opposite of Sex as Lucia De Lury |
  | Best Original Screenplay The Truman Show — Andrew Niccol Happiness — Todd Solondz Shakespeare in Love — Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard | Best Adapted Screenplay Out of Sight — Scott Frank Primary Colors — Elaine May A Simple Plan — Scott Smith |
  | Best Foreign Language Film Life Is Beautiful • Italy — Roberto Benigni Festen • Denmark — Thomas Vinterberg Central Station • Brazil — Walter Salles | Best Documentary Film The Big One — Michael Moore The Cruise — Bennett Miller Wild Man Blues — Barbara Kopple |
  | Best Cinematography Saving Private Ryan — Janusz Kamiński Pleasantville — John Lindley The Thin Red Line — John Toll | Best Editing Saving Private Ryan — Michael Kahn Out of Sight — Anne V. Coates Pleasantville — William Goldenberg The Truman Show — Lee Smith and William M. Anderson |
  | Best Original Score Pleasantville — Randy Newman The Prince of Egypt — Hans Zimmer Saving Private Ryan — John Williams | Best Ensemble Saving Private Ryan Happiness Your Friends & Neighbors |
  