London Film Critics Circle Awards 1998

The 1998 London Film Critics Circle Awards, held on 4 March 1999, honoured the best filmmaking of 1998.

Contents 1 Winners and nominees 1.1 Actor of the Year 1.2 Actress of the Year 1.3 Director of the Year 1.4 Film of the Year 1.5 Screenwriter of the Year 1.6 Supporting Actor of the Year 1.7 Supporting Actress of the Year 1.8 British Actor of the Year 1.9 British Actress of the Year 1.10 British Film of the Year 1.11 British Newcomer of the Year 1.12 British Screenwriter of the Year

Winners and nominees

Actor of the Year

Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets

• Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
• Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
• Robert Duvall - The Apostle
• Kevin Kline - The Ice Storm, In & Out

Actress of the Year

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth

• Helen Hunt - As Good as It Gets
• Joan Allen - The Ice Storm
• Gwyneth Paltrow - Sliding Doors, Great Expectations, A Perfect Murder
• Pam Grier - Jackie Brown

Director of the Year

Peter Weir - The Truman Show

• James Cameron - Titanic
• Ang Lee - The Ice Storm
• Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
• Michael Haneke - Funny Games

Film of the Year

Saving Private Ryan

• Titanic
• The Truman Show
• Boogie Nights
• The Ice Storm

Screenwriter of the Year

Andrew Niccol - The Truman Show, Gattaca

• Matt Damon, Ben Affleck - Good Will Hunting
• Neil LaBute - In the Company of Men
• Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - The Big Lebowski
• James Schamus - The Ice Storm

Supporting Actor of the Year

Nigel Hawthorne - The Object of My Affection

• Joseph Fiennes - Elizabeth
• Christopher Eccleston - Elizabeth
• Vinnie Jones - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Daniel Craig - Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
• Rufus Sewell - Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence
• Adrian Lester - Primary Colors
• Anthony Hopkins - The Mask of Zorro, Amistad, The Edge

Supporting Actress of the Year

Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting

Kate Beckinsale - The Last Days of Disco

• Natascha McElhone - The Truman Show, Mrs. Dalloway, Ronin
• Kathy Burke - Dancing at Lughnasa, Elizabeth

British Actor of the Year

Brendan Gleeson - The General

• John Hurt - Love and Death on Long Island
• Derek Jacobi - Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
• Peter Mullan - My Name is Joe
• Bill Nighy - Still Crazy

British Actress of the Year

Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove

• Kate Winslet - Titanic
• Julie Christie - Afterglow
• Catherine Zeta-Jones - The Mask of Zorro
• Louise Goodall - My Name is Joe
• Minnie Driver - The Governess
• Kristin Scott Thomas - The Horse Whisperer

British Film of the Year

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

• The Butcher Boy
• My Name Is Joe
• Elizabeth
• The General

British Newcomer of the Year

Peter Mullen - My Name is Joe

• Guy Ritchie - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Peter Howitt - Sliding Doors
• Eamonn Owens - The Butcher Boy, The General
• Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Velvet Goldmine, The Disappearance of Finbar, The Governess

British Screenwriter of the Year

Guy Ritchie - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

• Paul Laverty - My Name is Joe
• Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe - The Butcher Boy
• John Boorman - The General
• Hossein Amini - The Wings of the Dove

Preceded by ALFS Awards 1997

London Film Critics Circle 1998

Succeeded by ALFS Awards 1999