19th Youth in Film Awards


The 19th Youth in Film Awards ceremony, presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television and theatre for the 1996-1997 season, and took place on March 14, 1998, in Hollywood, California.
Established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Youth in Film Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, theatre and music.

Categories

Bold indicates the winner in each category.

Best Young Performer in a Feature Film

Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actor

Blake Heron - Shiloh
Kevin Zegers - Air Bud
Mara Wilson - A Simple Wish
Jeremy Foley - Dante's Peak
Jessica Biel - Ulee's Gold
Joseph Ashton - The Education of Little Tree
Jamie Renée Smith - Dante's Peak

Best Performance in a TV Movie / Pilot / Mini-Series: Leading Young Actor

Gregory Smith - '
Jena Malone - Ellen Foster
Edwin Hodge - '
Shadia Simmons - In His Father's Shoes
Seth Adkins - First Do No Harm
- '

Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Leading Young Actor

Austin O'Brien - Promised Land
Michael Yarmush - My Life as a Dog
Beverley Mitchell - 7th Heaven
Sarah Schaub - Promised Land
Ryan Merriman - The Pretender
Brittany Tiplady - Millennium
Trevor O'Brien - Promised Land
Cara Rose - Touched by an Angel

Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Leading Young Performer

Melissa Joan Hart - Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Hiller and Diller
Michelle Trachtenberg - Meego
- Jenny
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Hiller and Diller
Madylin Sweeten - Everybody Loves Raymond

Best Performance in a Daytime Drama: Young Performers (Male & Female)

- Moesha
Brandy - Moesha

Best Performance in a Voice-Over - TV or Film: Young Actor

Mathew Valencia - The New Batman Adventures
Francesca Smith - Hey Arnold!

Best Performance in a TV Movie or Feature Film: Young Ensemble

The Right Connections

Best Family TV Movie / Pilot / Mini-Series (Network)

First Do No Harm - ABC
The Right Connections - Showtime
Bear in the Big Blue House - Disney Channel
Sabrina the Teenage Witch - ABC
Promised Land - CBS
7th Heaven - WB

The Jackie Coogan Award

Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Motion Pictures

The Education of Little Tree - Paramount

The Michael Landon Award

Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Television

Bryton McClure

Outstanding Young Performer in a Television Commercial

Alan James Morgan - Target Corporation

Outstanding Young Performers Live Theatre

Blake McIver Ewing
Danielle Wiener

Scholarship Recipients

Michael Seale, Jr.
Josh Evans

Best Family Feature Films

Animation: Anastasia - 20th Century Fox
Comedy: Air Bud - Disney

Best Family Foreign Film

Ponette - Arrow Releasing

Best Young Performers in a Foreign Film

Victoire Thivisol - Ponette
- The Thief

Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award

Gigi Perreau