1997: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Jackie Brown (dir: Quentin Tarantino)

2. Boogie Nights (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

3. Starship Troopers (dir: Paul Verhoeven)

4. Lost Highway (dir: David Lynch)

5. Underground (dir: Emir Kustirica; US Release Date)

6. Taste of Cherry (dir: Abbas Kiarostami; US Release Date)

7. L.A. Confidential (dir: Curtis Hanson)

8. The Ice Storm (dir: Ang Lee)

9. Happy Together (dir: Wong Kar-Wai)

10. Titanic (dir: James Cameron)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Career Girls (dir: Mike Leigh), Face/Off (dir: John Woo), Contact (dir: Robert Zemeckis), Fireworks (dir: Takeshi Kitano), Gattaca (dir: Andrew Niccol), Grosse Pointe Blank (dir: George Armitage), The House of Yes (dir: Mark Waters), Live Flesh (dir: Pedro Almodovar), Love and Death on Long Island (dir: Richard Kwietniowski), Love Jones (dir: Theodore Witcher), Princess Mononoke (dir: Hayao Miyazaki), Two Girls and a Guy (dir: James Toback), and Wag the Dog (dir: Mike Nichols)

Best Film of the Year: Jackie Brown
Director: Quentin Tarantino Producer: Lawrence Bender
US Distributor: Miramax

Best Director:
Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown
2. Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights
3. Paul Verhoeven, Starship Troopers
4. Emir Kusturica, Underground
5. David Lynch, Lost Highway

Best Actor:
Tony Leung, Happy Together
2. Ian Holm, The Sweet Hereafter
3. Mark Wahlberg, Boogie Nights
4. Russell Crowe, L.A. Confidential
5. Guy Pearce, L.A. Confidential

Best Actress:
Pam Grier, Jackie Brown
2. Parker Posey, The House of Yes
3. Jodie Foster, Contact
4. Joan Allen, The Ice Storm
5. Molly Parker, Kissed

Best Supporting Actor:
Kevin Spacey, L.A. Confidential
2. Robert Forster, Jackie Brown
3. Vincent D'Onofrio, Men in Black
4. Mark Benton, Career Girls
5. Samuel L. Jackson, Jackie Brown

Best Supporting Actress:
Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights
2. Sigourney Weaver, The Ice Storm
3. Anne Heche, Wag the Dog
4. Sarah Polley, The Sweet Hereafter
5. Debbi Morgan, Eve's Bayou

Best Original Screenplay:
 Underground — Emir Kusturica and Dusan Kovacevic
2. Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Taste of Cherry — Abbas Kiarostami
4. Eve’s Bayou – Kasi Lemmons
5.Gattaca — Andrew Niccol

Best Adapted Screenplay:
L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
2. Jackie Brown — Quentin Tarantino
3. Wag the Dog – Hilary Henkin and David Mamet
4. The Ice Storm — James Schamus
5. The House of Yes — Mark Waters

Best Cinematography:
 Happy Together – Christopher Doyle
2. Lost Highway — Peter Deming
3. Underground — Vilko Filac
4. L.A. Confidential – Dante Spinotti
5. The Ice Storm — Frederick Elmes

Best Original Score:
 L.A. Confidential — Jerry Goldsmith
2. Gattaca — Michael Nyman
3. Lost Highway – Angelo Badalamenti
4. The Ice Storm — Mychael Danna
5. Contact — Alan Silvestri

Best Film Editing:
Boogie Nights — Dylan Tichenor
2. Face/Off — Steven Kemper and Christian Wagner
3. Starship Troopers — Mark Goldblatt and Caroline Ross
4. L.A. Confidential — Peter Honess
5. The Ice Storm — Tim Squyres

Best Production Design:  
Titanic — Peter Lamont and Michael Ford
2. Gattaca — Jan Roelfs and Nancy Nye
3. The Fifth Element — Dan Weil, Maggie Gray and Anna Pinnock
4. Underground — Miljen Kreka Kljakovic and Aleksandar Denic
5. Batman and Robin — Barbara Ling and Dorree Cooper

Best Costume Design:
The Fifth Element — Jean-Paul Gaultier
2. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery — Deena Appel
3. Titanic — Deborah L. Scott
4. The Wings of the Dove — Sandy Powell
5. Boogie Nights — Mark Bridges

Best Visual Effects
Titanic
2. Starship Troopers
3. Contact

Best Sound
Contact
2. Titanic
3. L.A. Confidential

Best Makeup
Men in Black
2. The Fifth Element
3. Lost Highway

Best Documentary Feature:
Spike Lee, 4 Little Girls

Best Animated Feature:
Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke

Best Ensemble Cast: 
L.A. Confidential

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Kasi Lemmons, Eve's Bayou

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Curtis Hanson; in alphabetical order): Simon Baker, Kim Basinger, Graham Beckel, James Cromwell, Russell Crowe, Danny DeVito (pictured), Salim Grant, Guy Pearce, Ron Rifkin, Marisol Padilla Sanchez, Darrell Sandeen, Kevin Spacey (pictured), and David Strathairn

Best First Feature: Samuel L. Jackson and Debbi Morgan (pictured) in Kasi Lemmons' Eve's Bayou

RECAP

W I N S :

L.A. Confidential — 4,
Jackie Brown — 3, Boogie Nights — 2, Happy Together — 2, Titanic — 2, 4 Little Girls — 1, Contact — 1, Eve’s Bayou — 1, The Fifth Element — 1, Men in Black — 1, Princess Mononoke — 1, Underground — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

L.A. Confidential — 10,
Boogie Nights — 7, The Ice Storm — 7, Eve’s Bayou — 5, Jackie Brown — 5, Titanic — 5, Underground — 5, Contact — 4, Lost Highway — 4, Starship Troopers — 4, The Fifth Element — 3, Gattaca — 3, Happy Together — 3, Men in Black — 3, The House of Yes — 2, Princess Mononoke — 2, Taste of Cherry — 2, Wag the Dog — 2

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Best of the Decade:
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