National Society of Film Critics Awards 1998

33rd NSFC Awards

January 3, 1999

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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. Saving Private Ryan
3. Affliction

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:

• The Farm: Angola, USA

Experimental Film:

• Mother and Son (Mat i syn)

Special Citation:

• Walter Murch, Rick Schmidlin, Bob O'Neil and Jonathan Rosenbaum for the 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

External links

• Past Awards

References

• 'Out of Sight' Is Not Out of Mind With National Critics Los Angeles Times
• `Out Of Sight' Is Tops In Film Critics' Mind Chicago Tribune
• National film critics tap `Out of Sight' The Boston Globe
• Film critics come up with surprise for '98's best movie: `Out of Sight' The San Diego Union-Tribune