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. 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

References

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Past Awards

1998 film awards
1998
1999 in American cinema