National Board of Review Awards 1998

The 70th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 1998, were announced on 8 December 1998 and given on 8 February 1999.^[1]

70th National Board of Review Awards

December 8, 1998

Best Picture:
Gods and Monsters

Top 10 films

Top Foreign Films

Winners

Best Picture:
- Gods and Monsters
Best Foreign Film:
- Central Station
Best Actor:
- Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
Best Actress:
- Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station
Best Supporting Actor:
- Ed Harris - The Truman Show
Best Supporting Actress:
- Christina Ricci - The Opposite of Sex
Best Acting by an Ensemble:
- Happiness
Breakthrough Performance - Male:
- Billy Crudup - The Hi-Lo Country
Breakthrough Performance - Female:
- Angelina Jolie - Playing by Heart
Best Director:
- Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth
Best Screenplay:
- Scott B. Smith - A Simple Plan
Best Documentary:
- Wild Man Blues
Best Achievement in Filmmaking:
- Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
Career Achievement Award:
- Michael Caine
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:
- Martin Scorsese
William K. Everson Award for Film History:
- John Willis
International Freedom Award:
- Volker Schlöndorff
Freedom of Expression:
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Special Citation:
- Warren Beatty, Alan J. Pakula Memorial Award
Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking:
- Buffalo '66
- Dark City
- Love and Death on Long Island
- Next Stop Wonderland
- The Opposite of Sex
- Passion in the Desert
- Pi
- Smoke Signals
- Waking Ned Devine
- Your Friends & Neighbors

National Board of Review Awards 1998

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Top Foreign Films

Winners

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