1998 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Winners

• Best Picture:
• *Saving Private Ryan
• *Runner-up: The Butcher Boy
• Best Director:
• *Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan
• *Runner-up: John Boorman – The General
• Best Actor:
• *Ian McKellen – Gods and Monsters
• *Runner-up: Nick Nolte – Affliction
• Best Actress :
• *Fernanda Montenegro – Central Station
• *Ally Sheedy – High Art
• Best Supporting Actor :
• *Bill Murray – Rushmore and Wild Things
• *Billy Bob Thornton – A Simple Plan
• Best Supporting Actress:
• *Joan Allen – Pleasantville
• *Runner-up: Kathy Bates – Primary Colors
• Best Screenplay:
• *Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser – Bulworth
• *Runner-up: Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard – Shakespeare in Love
• Best Cinematography:
• *Janusz Kamiński – Saving Private Ryan
• *Runner-up: Seamus Deasy – The General
• Best Production Design:
• *Jeannine Oppewall – Pleasantville
• *Runner-up: Dennis Gassner – The Truman Show
• Best Music Score:
• *Elliot Goldenthal – The Butcher Boy
• *Runner-up: Carter Burwell – Gods and Monsters
• Best Foreign-Language Film:
• *The Celebration • Denmark/Sweden
• *Runner-up: Central Station • Brazil/France
• Best Non-Fiction Film:
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• Best Animation:
• *A Bug's Life
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• The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
• *Elisabeth Subrin – Shulie
• New Generation Award:
• *Wes Anderson – Rushmore
• Career Achievement Award:
• *Julius J. Epstein
• *Abraham Polonsky
• Special Citation:'
• *Rick Schmidlin, Walter Murch, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Bob O'Neil for the restoration of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil''
• *Barbara Zicka Smith for her work running the American Cinemateque