1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

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64th New York Film Critics Circle Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 10, 1999 </div>

Best Picture:<br> <big> Saving Private Ryan </big> </div> 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:
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• 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)