1998 National Society of Film Critics Awards explained

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.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

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.
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

External links

• Past Awards

Notes and References

1. News: Maslin. Janet. Out of Sight Called Best Film of '98. 2 January 2018. The New York Times. 4 January 1999.
2. News: Levy. Emanuel. Soderbergh ‘Sight’ right, crix cry. 2 January 2018. Variety. 3 January 1999.
3. News: King. Susan. 'Out of Sight' Is Not Out of Mind With National Critics. 2 January 2018. Los Angeles Times. 4 January 1999.
4. News: Wilmington. Michael. `Out Of Sight' Is Tops In Film Critics' Mind. 2 January 2018. Chicago Tribune. 4 January 1999.
5. News: Carr. Jay. National film critics tap `Out of Sight. 2 January 2018. The Boston Globe. 4 January 1999. 6 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306210523/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/405277471.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=&author=&pub=&edition=&startpage=&desc=. live.