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.

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