National Board of Review Awards 1998

70th National Board of Review Awards

December 8, 1998

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Best Picture:
Gods and Monsters

The 70th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 1998, were announced on 8 December 1998 and given on 8 February 1999.

Top 10 films

1. Gods and Monsters
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Elizabeth
4. Happiness
5. Shakespeare in Love *Academy Award for Best Picture*
6. The Butcher Boy
7. Lolita
8. The Thin Red Line
9. A Simple Plan
10. Dancing at Lughnasa

Top Foreign Films

1. Central Station
2. Life Is Beautiful
3. The Thief
4. Beyond Silence
5. Men with Guns

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • Gods and Monsters
• Best Foreign Film:
  • Central Station
• Best Actor:
  • Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
• Best Actress:
  • Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Ed Harris - The Truman Show
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Christina Ricci - The Opposite of Sex
• Best Acting by an Ensemble:
  • Happiness
• Breakthrough Performance - Male:
  • Billy Crudup - The Hi-Lo Country
• Breakthrough Performance - Female:
  • Angelina Jolie - Playing by Heart
• Best Director:
  • Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth
• Best Screenplay:
  • Scott B. Smith - A Simple Plan
• Best Documentary:
  • Wild Man Blues
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Michael Caine
• Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:
  • Martin Scorsese
• Special Achievement in Filmmaking:
  • Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
• William K. Everson Award for Film History:
  • John Willis
• International Freedom Award:
  • Volker Schlöndorff
• Freedom of Expression:
  • Bernardo Bertolucci
• Special Citation:
  • Warren Beatty, Alan J. Pakula Memorial Award
• Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking:
  • Buffalo ’66
  • Dark City
  • Love and Death on Long Island
  • Next Stop Wonderland
  • The Opposite of Sex
  • Passion in the Desert
  • Pi
  • Smoke Signals
  • Waking Ned Devine
  • Your Friends & Neighbors

External links

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1998