4th Critics' Choice Awards

1999 film awards

The 4th Critics' Choice Movie Awards were presented on January 25, 1999, honoring the finest achievements of 1998 filmmaking.^[1]^[2]

Top 10 films

(in alphabetical order)

Best Actor:
- Ian McKellen – Gods and Monsters and Apt Pupil
Best Actress:
- Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth
Best Animated Feature:
- A Bug's Life / The Prince of Egypt (TIE)
Best Child Performer:
- Ian Michael Smith – Simon Birch
Best Director:
- Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan
Best Family Film:
- A Bug's Life
Best Feature Documentary:
- Wild Man Blues
Best Foreign Language Film:
- Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) • Italy
Best Picture:
- Saving Private Ryan
Best Picture Made for Television:
- From the Earth to the Moon
Best Score:
- John Williams – Saving Private Ryan
Best Screenplay – Adaptation:
- A Simple Plan – Scott B. Smith
Best Screenplay – Original:
- Shakespeare in Love – Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman
Best Song:
- "When You Believe" – The Prince of Egypt
Best Supporting Actor:
- Billy Bob Thornton – A Simple Plan
Best Supporting Actress:
- Joan Allen – Pleasantville / Kathy Bates – Primary Colors (TIE)
Breakthrough Performer:
- Joseph Fiennes – Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love
Alan J. Pakula Award (for artistic excellence while illuminating issues of great social and political importance):
- John Travolta^[3]

^ Clinton, Paul (January 26, 1999). "Broadcast Film critics name 'Saving Private Ryan' best film". CNN. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
^ "The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1998". Broadcast Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008.
^ Olson, Eric J. (January 7, 1999). "Broadcast film crix to honor Travolta". Variety. Retrieved September 11, 2016.