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- DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.BEST PICTURE
L.A. Confidential
Titanic
Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
Jackie Brown
Boogie Nights
Good Will Hunting
Funny Games
The Full Monty
As Good As It Gets
Amistad - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.BEST DIRECTOR
Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights
Roberto Benigni - Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
Michael Haneke - Funny Games
James Cameron - Titanic
Quentin Tarantino - Jackie Brown - DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsJack NicholsonHelen HuntGreg KinnearA single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.BEST ACTOR
Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets
Robert Duvall - The Apostle
Roberto Benigni - Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
Guy Pearce - L.A. Confidential
Russell Crowe - L.A. Confidential
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting - DirectorIain SoftleyStarsHelena Bonham CarterLinus RoacheAlex JenningsAn impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.BEST ACTRESS
Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove
Kate Winslet - Titanic
Judi Dench - Mrs Brown
Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
Helen Hunt - As Good As It Gets
Susanne Lothar - Funny Games
Julia Roberts - My Best Friend's Wedding - DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsMark WahlbergJulianne MooreBurt ReynoldsBack when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
Robert Forster - Jackie Brown
Anthony Hopkins - Amistad
Rupert Everett - My Best Friend's Wedding
Greg Kinnear - As Good As It Gets - DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsMark WahlbergJulianne MooreBurt ReynoldsBack when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting
Gloria Stuart - Titanic
Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
Cameron Diaz - My Best Friend's Wedding
Alison Elliott - The Wings of the Dove - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.BEST CASTING
L.A. Confidential
Boogie Nights
Jackie Brown
As Good As It Gets
Amistad
My Best Friend's Wedding - DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
The Full Monty
Boogie Nights
Funny Games
My Best Friend's Wedding
As Good As It Gets - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
L.A. Confidential
Jackie Brown
The Wings of the Dove
Amistad - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
L.A. Confidential
Boogie Nights
Jackie Brown
Tomorrow Never Dies
Hercules
The Fifth Element - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST EDITING
Titanic
L.A. Confidential
Jackie Brown
Good Will Hunting
Boogie Nights
Funny Games - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Titanic
Boogie Nights
L.A. Confidential
Amistad
The Wings of the Dove
Jackie Brown - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Titanic
L.A. Confidential
Boogie Nights
Amistad
The Wings of the Dove
Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella) - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Titanic
The Wings of the Dove
L.A. Confidential
The Fifth Element
Amistad
Boogie Nights
Mrs Brown - DirectorLuc BessonStarsBruce WillisMilla JovovichGary OldmanIn the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
The Fifth Element
Titanic
Batman and Robin
The Saint
Boogie Nights
Amistad
Mrs Brown - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Titanic
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Tomorrow Never Dies
Volcano
The Fifth Element
Face/Off - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST SCORE
Titanic
Amistad
Anastasia
Hercules
Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
L.A. Confidential - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsPam GrierSamuel L. JacksonRobert ForsterA flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the illegal arms dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.BEST SOUNDTRACK/ADAPTED SCORE
Jackie Brown
Boogie Nights
My Best Friend's Wedding
Funny Games - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST SONG
Titanic - "My Heart Will Go On"
Anastasia - "Journey to the Past"
Hercules - "Go the Distance"
Hercules - "I Won't Say I'm in Love"
Anastasia - "Once Upon A December"
Tomorrow Never Dies - "Tomorrow Never Dies" - DirectorPeter CattaneoStarsRobert CarlyleTom WilkinsonMark AddySix unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.BEST DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
The Full Monty - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST SOUND
Titanic
Tomorrow Never Dies
Volcano
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
L.A. Confidential
Face/Off - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST SOUND EDITING
Titanic
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Tomorrow Never Dies
Volcano
The Fifth Element
Face/Off - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.BEST STUNTS
Titanic
Face/Off
Tomorrow Never Dies
The Fifth Element
Volcano
The Lost World: Jurassic Park - DirectorRon ClementsJohn MuskerStarsTate DonovanSusan EganJames WoodsThe son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Hercules
Anastasia - DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.BEST FOREIGN FILM
Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
Funny Games