1998 National Society of Film Critics 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

3. 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

References

1. (4 January 1999). "''Out of Sight'' Called Best Film of '98". The New York Times.
2. (3 January 1999). "Soderbergh ‘Sight’ right, crix cry". Variety.
3. (4 January 1999). "'Out of Sight' Is Not Out of Mind With National Critics". Los Angeles Times.
4. (4 January 1999). "`Out Of Sight' Is Tops In Film Critics' Mind". Chicago Tribune.
5. (4 January 1999). "National film critics tap `Out of Sight". The Boston Globe.