1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards



64th New York Film Critics Circle Awards January 10, 1999

Best Picture:  Saving Private Ryan  The 64th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 1998, were announced on 16 December 1998 and given on 10 January 1999.

Winners

 * Best Actor:
 * Nick Nolte - Affliction
 * Runners-up: Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters and Brendan Gleeson - The General
 * Best Actress:
 * Cameron Diaz - There's Something About Mary
 * Runners-up: Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station (Central do Brasil) and Renée Zellweger - One True Thing and A Price Above Rubies
 * Best Cinematography:
 * John Toll - The Thin Red Line
 * Best Director:
 * Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
 * Runners-up: Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan and Paul Schrader - Affliction
 * Best Film:
 * Saving Private Ryan
 * Runners-up: Affliction and Happiness
 * Best First Film:
 * Richard Kwietniowski - Love and Death on Long Island
 * Runners-up: Don Roos - The Opposite of Sex and Vincent Gallo - Buffalo '66
 * Best Foreign Language Film:
 * The Celebration (Festen) • Denmark/Sweden
 * Runners-up: Central Station (Central do Brasil) • Brazil/France and Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass) • Iran
 * Best Non-Fiction Film:
 * The Farm: Angola, USA
 * Runner-up: The Cruise
 * Best Screenplay:
 * Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard - Shakespeare in Love
 * Runners-up: Todd Solondz - Happiness and Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson - Rushmore
 * Best Supporting Actor:
 * Bill Murray - Rushmore
 * Runner-up: Dylan Baker - Happiness
 * Best Supporting Actress:
 * Lisa Kudrow - The Opposite of Sex
 * Runner-up: Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
 * Special Award:
 * Rick Schmidlin - Touch of Evil (for the reworked version)