1998 National Society of Film Critics Awards

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

1. Out of Sight
2. Affliction
3. Saving Private Ryan

1. Steven Soderbergh – Out of Sight
2. Terrence Malick – The Thin Red Line
2. Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan

1. Nick Nolte – Affliction
2. Ian McKellen – Gods and Monsters
3. Brendan Gleeson – The General and I Went Down

1. Ally Sheedy – High Art
2. Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth
3. Fernanda Montenegro – Central Station (Central do Brasil)

1. Bill Murray – Rushmore
2. Donald Sutherland – Without Limits
3. Billy Bob Thornton – A Simple Plan

1. John Toll – The Thin Red Line
2. Janusz Kamiński – Saving Private Ryan
3. Seamus Deasy – The General

1. Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass)
2. Fireworks (Hana-bi)
3. The Celebration (Festen)

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

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^ Levy, Emanuel (3 January 1999). "Soderbergh 'Sight' right, crix cry". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
^ King, Susan (4 January 1999). "'Out of Sight' Is Not Out of Mind With National Critics". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
^ Wilmington, Michael (4 January 1999). "`Out Of Sight' Is Tops In Film Critics' Mind". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
^ Carr, Jay (4 January 1999). "National film critics tap `Out of Sight". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2018.