1998 Cii Movie Awards

This list and awards compiled March 2, 2013

                      For the criteria of choosing the awards, click here.

Top 10 Films of 1998

1. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
2. The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
4. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
5. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
6. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Primary Colors (Mike Nichols)
8. Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
9. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
10. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)

Honorable Mentions: Rushmore (Wes Anderson), Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson), Beloved (Jonathan Demme), Bulworth (Warren Beatty), Dark City (Alex Proyas)

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges – The Big Lebowski

Vincent Gallo – Buffalo ‘66

Ian McKellen – Gods & Monsters

* Edward Norton – American History X

Denzel Washington – He Got Game

Best Actress

* Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth

Cameron Diaz – There’s Something About Mary

Gwenyth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love

Christina Ricci – The Opposite of Sex

Emily Watson – Hilary & Jackie

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Dillon – There’s Something About Mary

Bill Murray – Rushmore

Geoffrey Rush – Shakespeare in Love

Billy Bob Thornton – A Simple Plan

* Steve Zahn – Out of Sight

Best Supporting Actress

Joan Allen – Pleasantville

* Kathy Bates – Primary Colors

Kate Beckinsale – The Last Days of Disco

Brenda Blethyn – Little Voice

Lisa Kudrow – The Opposite of Sex

Best Director

Jonathan Demme – Beloved

* Vincent Gallo – Buffalo ‘66

Hong Sang-soo – The Power of Kangwon Province

Steven Soderbergh – Out of Sight

Tsai Ming-liang – The Hole

Best Screenplay

The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo)

* Out of Sight (Scott Frank)

Primary Colors (Elaine May)

The Truman Show (Andrew Niccol)

Best Cinematography

Beloved (Tak Fujimoto)

* Buffalo ’66 (Lance Acord)

Pi (Matthew Libatique)

Saving Private Ryan (Janusz Kaminski)

The Thin Red Line (John Toll)

Best Editing

Enemy of the State (Chris Lebenzon)

* Out of Sight (Anne V. Coates)

Saving Private Ryan (Michael Kahn)

Snake Eyes (Bill Pankow)

The Thin Red Line (Leslie Jones, Saar Klein & Billy Weber)

Best Film Score

* Gods & Monsters (Carter Burwell)

Life is Beautiful (Nicola Piovani)

The Horse Whisperer (Thomas Newman)

The Truman Show (Burkhard von Dallwitz)

Best Production Design

* Dark City

Pleasantville

Shakespeare in Love

Snake Eyes

Velvet Goldmine

Best Ensemble Cast Performance

Beloved

* The Celebration

Out of Sight

Primary Colors

Rounders

1998 Movies Seen (127 features seen as of 03.02.2013)

Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1998)

American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998)

Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark, 1998)

Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer, 1997)

Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)

The Avengers (Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1998)

Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998)

BASEketball (David Zucker, 1998)

Beloved (Jonathan Demme, 1998)

The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)

Blade (Stephen Norrington, 1998)

A Bug’s Life (John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton, 1998)

Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998)

Bulworth (Warren Beatty, 1998)

Can’t Hardly Wait (Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan, 1998)

The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)

Chairman of the Board (Alex Zamm, 1998)

City of Angels (Brad Siberling, 1998)

A Civil Action (Steven Zaillian, 1998)

Clay Pigeons (David Dobkin, 1998)

Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher, 1998)

Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (Tim McCanlies, 1998)

Dangerous Beauty (Marshall Herskovitz, 1998)

Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)

Dead Man on Campus (Alan Cohn ,1998)

Deep Impact (Mimi Leder, 1998)

Deep Rising (Stephen Sommers, 1998)

Desperate Measures (Barbet Schroeder, 1998)

Dirty Work (Bob Saget, 1998)

Dr. Dolittle (Betty Thomas, 1998)

Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998)

Enemy of the State (Tony Scott, 1998)

The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez, 1998)

Fallen (Gregory Hoblit, 1998)

Firestorm (Dean Semier, 1998)

The General (John Boorman, 1998)

The Gingerbread Man (Robert Altman, 1998)

Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon, 1998)

Godzilla (Roland Emmerich, 1998)

Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuarón, 1998)

Half Baked (Tamra Davis, 1998)

Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later (Steve Miner, 1998)

Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)

Hard Rain (Mikael Salomon, 1998)

He Got Game (Spike Lee, 1998)

High Art (Lisa Cholodenko, 1998)

Hilary & Jackie (Anand Tucker, 1998)

The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998)

Holy Man (Stephen Herek, 1998)

Home Fries (Dean Parisot, 1998)

Homegrown (Stephen Gyllenhaal, 1998)

Hope floats (Forest Whitaker, 1998)

The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford, 1998)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Kevin Rodney Sullivan, 1998)

Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan, 1998)

Hush (Jonathan Darby, 1998)

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Danny Cannon, 1998)

The Imposters (Stanley Tucci, 1998)

Jane Austen’s Mafia (Jim Abrahams, 1998)

Krippendorf’s Tribe (Todd Holland, 1998)

The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998)

Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner, 1998)

Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1998)

Little Voice (Mark Herman, 1998)

Living Out Loud (Richard LaGravenese, 1998)

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998)

The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998)

The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell, 1998)

Meet Joe Black (Martin Brest, 1998)

Meeting People is Easy (Grant Gee, 1998)

Mercury Rising (Harold Becker, 1998)

The Mighty (Peter Chelsom, 1998)

Mulan (Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook, 1998)

My Giant (Michael Lehmann, 1998)

The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater, 1998)

One True Thing (Carl Franklin, 1998)

The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos, 1998)

Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)

Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac, 1998)

A Perfect Murder (Andrew Davis, 1998)

Phantoms (Joe Chappelle, 1998)

Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)

Pleasantville (Gary Ross, 1998)

The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo, 1998)

Practical Magic (Griffin Dunne, 1998)

Primary Colors (Mike Nichols, 1998)

The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman & Steve Hickner, 1998)

Psycho (Gus Van Sant, 1998)

Ronin (John Frankenheimer, 1998)

Rounders (John Dahl, 1998)

Rush Hour (Brett Ratner, 1998)

Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)

Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)

Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998)

Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)

The Siege (Edward Zwick, 1998)

Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998)

A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, 1998)

Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt, 1998)

Small Soldiers (Joe Dante, 1998)

Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, 1998)

Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma, 1998)

Soldier (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1998)

Sour Grapes (Larry David, 1998)

Sphere (Barry Levinson, 1998)

Still Crazy (Brian Gibson, 1998)

There’s Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly, 1998)

The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)

The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)

Twilight (Robert Benton, 1998)

U.S. Marshals (Stuart Baird, 1998)

Urban Legend (Jamie Blanks, 1998)

Vampires (John Carpenter, 1998)

Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

Very Bad Things (Peter Berg, 1998)

The Waterboy (Frank Coraci, 1998)

Waking Ned Devine (Kirk Jones, 1998)

The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci, 1998)

What Dreams May Come (Vincent Ward, 1998)

Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Gregory Nava, 1998)

Wide Awake (M. Night Shyamalan, 1998)

Wild Things (John McNaughton, 1998)

Without Limits (Robert Towne, 1998)

The X-Files (Rob Bowman, 1998)

You’ve Got Mail (Nora Ephron, 1998)

Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute, 1998)

Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan, 1998)