1998: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Labyrinth of Dreams (dir: Gakuryū Ishii; US Premiere)

2. The Thin Red Line (dir: Terrence Malick)

3. Out of Sight (dir: Steven Soderbergh)

4. The Big Lebowski (dir: Joel Coen)

5. Rushmore (dir: Wes Anderson)

6. Beloved (dir: Jonathan Demme)

7. Babe: Pig in the City (dir: George Miller)

8. Velvet Goldmine (dir: Todd Haynes)

9. The Eel (dir: Shohei Imamura; US release date)

10. The Butcher Boy (dir: Neil Jordan)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Affliction (dir: Paul Schrader), Besieged (dir: Bernardo Bertolucci), Clockwatchers (dir: Jill Sprecher; US Release Date), The Cruise (dir: Bennett Miller), Decline of Western Civilization III (dir: Penelope Spheeris), The Dreamlife of Angels (dir: Erick Zonca), Gods and Monsters (dir: Bill Condon), Perfect Blue (dir: Satoshi Kon), Saving Private Ryan (dir: Steven Spielberg), A Simple Plan (dir: Sam Raimi), Slums of Beverly Hills (dir: Tamara Jenkins), There's Something About Mary (dir: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly), The Truman Show (dir: Peter Weir) and Wild Things (dir: John McNaughton)

Best Film of the Year: Labyrinth of Dreams
Director: Gakuryū Ishii Producers: Yasuhiro Itô, Kenichi Kamata, Satoshi Kanno, Atsuyuki Shimoda, and Kazuo Suzaki
US Distributor: Cinequest

Best Director:
Gakuryū Ishii, Labyrinth of Dreams
2. Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line
3. Jonathan Demme, Beloved
4. Wes Anderson, Rushmore
5. George Miller, Babe: Pig in the City

Best Actor:
Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski
2. Nick Nolte, Affliction AND The Thin Red Line
3. George Clooney, Out of Sight
4. Ian McKellan, Gods and Monsters
5. Danny Glover, Beloved

Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth
2. Elodie Bouchez, The Dreamlife of Angels
3. Jennifer Lopez, Out of Sight
4. Oprah Winfrey, Beloved
5. Misa Shimizu, The Eel

Best Supporting Actor:
Bill Murray, Rushmore AND Wild Things
2. Matt Dillon, There's Something About Mary
3. Jim Caviezel, The Thin Red Line
4. Elias Koteas, The Thin Red Line
5. John Goodman, The Big Lebowski

Best Supporting Actress:
Parker Posey, Clockwatchers
2. Julianne Moore, The Big Lebowski
3. Thandiwe Newton, Beloved
4. Marisa Tomei, Slums of Beverly Hills
5. Lisa Kudrow, The Opposite of Sex

Best Original Screenplay:
The Big Lebowski – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2. Rushmore — Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
3. The Eel — Shohei Imamura
4. There’s Something About Mary – Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly
5. The Truman Show — Andrew Niccol

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Out of Sight – Scott Frank
 2. The Thin Red Line – Terrence Malick
3. Beloved — Akousa Busia, Richard LaGravenese, and Adam Brooks
4. The Butcher Boy — Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe
5. Affliction — Paul Schrader

Best Cinematography:
Saving Private Ryan — Janusz Kaminski
2. The Thin Red Line – John Toll
3. Beloved — Tak Fujimoto
4. Velvet Goldmine – Maryse Alberti
5. Labyrinth of Dreams — Norimichi Kasamatsu

Best Original Score:
1. Out of Sight – David Holmes
2. Wild Things – George S. Clinton
3. Labyrinth of Dreams — Hiroyuki Onogawa
4. The Thin Red Line — Hans Zimmer
5. The Butcher Boy — Elliot Goldenthal

Best Film Editing:
Out of Sight – Anne V. Coates
2. Pi – Oren Sarch
3. The Cruise — Michael Levine
 4. The Thin Red Line – Leslie Jones, Saar Klein and Billy Weber
5. Labyrinth of Dreams — Kan Suzuki

Best Production Design:
Saving Private Ryan — Tom Sanders, Phil Zagajewski and Lisa Dean
2. Dark City — George Liddle and Patrick Tatopoulos
3. Elizabeth — John Myhre and Peter Howitt
4. Beloved — Kristi Zea and Karen O’Hara
5. Babe: Pig in the City — Roger Ford and Kerrie Brown

Best Costume Design:
Velvet Goldmine — Sandy Powell
2. Elizabeth — Alexandra Byrne
3. Shakespeare in Love — Sandy Powell
4. Beloved — Colleen Atwood
5. Babe: Pig in the City — Norma Moriceau

Best Visual Effects
Deep Impact
2. Armageddon
3. Pleasantville

Best Sound
Saving Private Ryan
2. Ronin
3. The Mask of Zorro

Best Makeup
Dark City
2. Elizabeth
3. Shakespeare in Love

Best Documentary Feature:
Bennett Miller, The Cruise

Best Animated Feature:
Satoshi Kon, Perfect Blue

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Out of Sight

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Darren Aronofsky, Pi

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Steven Soderbergh; in alphabetical order): Nancy Allen, Albert Brooks, Paul Calderon, Don Cheadle, George Clooney (pictured), Viola Davis, Dennis Farina, Luis Guzman, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Catherine Keener, Keith Loneker, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames (pictured), Isaiah Washington and Steve Zahn

Best First Feature: Darren Aronofsky's Pi

RECAP

W I N S :

Out of Sight — 3, Saving Private Ryan — 3,
Big Lebowski — 2, Labyrinth of Dreams — 2, Clockwatchers — 1, The Cruise — 1, Dark City — 1, Deep Impact — 1, Elizabeth — 1, Perfect Blue — 1, Pi — 1, Rushmore — 1, Velvet Goldmine — 1, Wild Things — 1

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

Beloved — 9, The Thin Red Line — 9,
Out of Sight — 8, Big Lebowski — 5, Labyrinth of Dreams — 5, Rushmore — 5, Babe: Pig in the City — 4, Elizabeth — 4, The Butcher Boy — 3, The Eel — 3, Saving Private Ryan — 3, Velvet Goldmine — 3, Affliction — 2, The Cruise — 2, Dark City — 2, Pi — 2, Shakespeare in Love — 2, There’s Something About Mary — 2, Wild Things — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s