Online Film Critics Society Awards 1998

The 2nd Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 1998, were given on 3 January 1999.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

Saving Private Ryan

• Life Is Beautiful
• The Truman Show

Best Director

Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan

• Terrence Malick – The Thin Red Line
• Peter Weir – The Truman Show

Best Actor

Ian McKellen – Gods and Monsters

• Tom Hanks – Saving Private Ryan
• Edward Norton – American History X

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth

• Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love
• Emily Watson – Hilary and Jackie

Best Supporting Actor

Billy Bob Thornton – A Simple Plan

• Ed Harris – The Truman Show
• Jason Patric – Your Friends & Neighbors

Best Supporting Actress

Joan Allen – Pleasantville

• Kathy Bates – Primary Colors
• Lisa Kudrow – The Opposite of Sex

Best Original Screenplay

The Truman Show – Andrew Niccol

• Happiness – Todd Solondz
• Shakespeare in Love – Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard

Best Adapted Screenplay

Out of Sight – Scott Frank

• Primary Colors – Elaine May
• A Simple Plan – Scott Smith

Best Foreign Language Film

Life Is Beautiful

• The Celebration
• Central Station

Best Documentary

The Big One

• The Cruise
• Wild Man Blues

Best Cinematography

Saving Private Ryan – Janusz Kamiński

• Pleasantville – John Lindley
• The Thin Red Line – John Toll

Best Editing

Saving Private Ryan – Michael Kahn

• Out of Sight – Anne V. Coates
• Pleasantville – William Goldenberg
• The Truman Show – William M. Anderson and Lee Smith

Best Ensemble

Saving Private Ryan

• Happiness
• Your Friends & Neighbors

Best Original Score

Pleasantville – Randy Newman

• The Prince of Egypt – Hans Zimmer
• Saving Private Ryan – John Williams

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