# London Film Critics Circle Awards 1998

19th London Film Critics Circle Awards
4 March 1999
Film of the Year:
Saving Private Ryan
British Film of the Year:
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The 19th London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 1998, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 4 March 1999.

## Winners and nominees
### Film of the Year

Saving Private Ryan
* Boogie Nights
* The Ice Storm
* Titanic
* The Truman Show

### British Film of the Year

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
* The Butcher Boy
* Elizabeth
* The General
* My Name Is Joe

### Foreign Language Film of the Year

Shall We Dance? • Japan
* Funny Games • Austria

### Director of the Year

Peter Weir – The Truman Show
* James Cameron – Titanic
* Michael Haneke – Funny Games
* Ang Lee – The Ice Storm
* Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan

### British Director of the Year

John Boorman – The General
* Ken Loach – My Name Is Joe

### Screenwriter of the Year

Andrew Niccol – The Truman Show and Gattaca
* Joel and Ethan Coen – The Big Lebowski
* Matt Damon and Ben Affleck – Good Will Hunting
* James Schamus – The Ice Storm
* Neil LaBute – In the Company of Men

### British Screenwriter of the Year

Guy Ritchie – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
* Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe – The Butcher Boy
* John Boorman – The General
* Paul Laverty – My Name Is Joe
* Hossein Amini – The Wings of the Dove

### Actor of the Year

Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets
* Matt Damon – Good Will Hunting, The Rainmaker and Saving Private Ryan
* Robert Duvall – The Apostle
* Tom Hanks – Saving Private Ryan
* Kevin Kline – The Ice Storm and In & Out

### Actress of the Year

Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth
* Joan Allen – The Ice Storm
* Pam Grier – Jackie Brown
* Helen Hunt – As Good as It Gets
* Gwyneth Paltrow – Sliding Doors, Great Expectations and A Perfect Murder

### British Actor of the Year

Brendan Gleeson – The General
* John Hurt – Love and Death on Long Island
* Derek Jacobi – Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
* Peter Mullan – My Name Is Joe
* Bill Nighy – Still Crazy

### British Actress of the Year

Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove
* Julie Christie – Afterglow
* Minnie Driver – The Governess
* Louise Goodall – My Name Is Joe
* Kristin Scott Thomas – The Horse Whisperer
* Kate Winslet – Titanic
* Catherine Zeta-Jones – The Mask of Zorro

### British Supporting Actor of the Year

Nigel Hawthorne – The Object of My Affection
* Daniel Craig – Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
* Christopher Eccleston – Elizabeth
* Joseph Fiennes – Elizabeth
* Anthony Hopkins – The Mask of Zorro, Amistad and The Edge
* Vinnie Jones – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
* Adrian Lester – Primary Colors
* Rufus Sewell – Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence

### British Supporting Actress of the Year
#### Minnie Driver – Good Will Hunting

* Kathy Burke – Dancing at Lughnasa and Elizabeth
* Natascha McElhone – The Truman Show, Mrs. Dalloway and Ronin

### British Newcomer of the Year

Peter Mullen – My Name Is Joe
* Peter Howitt – Sliding Doors
* Eamonn Owens – The Butcher Boy and The General
* Jonathan Rhys-Meyers – Velvet Goldmine, The Disappearance of Finbar and The Governess
* Guy Ritchie – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

### British Producer of the Year

Alison Owen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner – Elizabeth

#### Dilys Powell Award

* Albert Finney
* John Hurt

#### Lifetime Achievement Award

* John Box
* John Boorman