1998 (71st Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners

Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1998. The symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.

Best Picture

Elizabeth, Working Title Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK) Alison Owen, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, Producers.

Life Is Beautiful, Melampo Cinematografica Production; Miramax Films. (Italy) Elda Ferri and Gianluigi Braschi, Producers.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon and Gary Levinsohn, Producers.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman, Producers.

The Thin Red Line, Fox 2000 Pictures Presentation from Phoenix Pictures in association with George Stevens, Jr.; 20th Century Fox. Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau and Grant Hill, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful, Melampo Cinematografica Production; Miramax Films. (Italy)

Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures.

Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters, Regent Pictures; Lions Gate Films. (USA, UK)

Nick Nolte in Affliction, Tormenta Production; Lions Gate Films. (USA, Canada, Japan)

Edward Norton in American History X, Turman-Morrissey Company Production; New Line.

Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, Working Title Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK)

Fernanda Montenegro in Central Station, Arthur Cohn Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Brazil, France)

Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK)

Meryl Streep in One True Thing, Universal Pictures Production; Universal.

Emily Watson in Hilary and Jackie, Oxford Film Company Production; October Films. (UK)

Actor in a Supporting Role

James Coburn in Affliction, Tormenta Production; Lions Gate Films. (USA, Canada, Japan)

Robert Duvall in A Civil Action, Touchstone Pictures and Paramount Pictures Production; Buena Vista.

Ed Harris in The Truman Show, Scott Rudin Production; Paramount.

Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK)

Billy Bob Thornton in A Simple Plan, Mutual Film Company Production; Paramount and Mutual Film Company in association with Savoy Pictures. (UK, Germany, France, USA, Japan)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Kathy Bates in Primary Colors, Universal Pictures Production; Universal and Mutual Film Company. (UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA)

Brenda Blethyn in Little Voice, Scala Production; Miramax Films. (UK)

Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK)

Rachel Griffiths in Hilary and Jackie, Oxford Film Company Production; October Films. (UK)

Lynn Redgrave in Gods and Monsters, Regent Pictures; Lions Gate Films. (USA, UK)

Directing

Life Is Beautiful, Melampo Cinematografica Production; Miramax Films. (Italy) Roberto Benigni.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Steven Spielberg.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) John Madden.

The Thin Red Line, Fox 2000 Pictures Presentation from Phoenix Pictures in association with George Stevens, Jr.; 20th Century Fox. Terrence Malick.

The Truman Show, Scott Rudin Production; Paramount. Peter Weir.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Elizabeth, Working Title Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK) Art direction by John Myhre; set decoration by Peter Howitt.

Pleasantville, Larger Than Life Production; New Line. Art direction by Jeannine Oppewall; set decoration by Jay Hart.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Art direction by Tom Sanders; set decoration by Lisa Dean Kavanaugh.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Art direction by Martin Childs; set decoration by Jill Quertier.

What Dreams May Come, Interscope Communications Production in association with Metafilmics; PolyGram. (USA, New Zealand) Art direction by Eugenio Zanetti; set decoration by Cindy Carr.

Cinematography

A Civil Action, Touchstone Pictures and Paramount Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Conrad L. Hall.

Elizabeth, Working Title Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK) Remi Adefarasin.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Janusz Kaminski.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Richard Greatrex.

The Thin Red Line, Fox 2000 Pictures Presentation from Phoenix Pictures in association with George Stevens, Jr.; 20th Century Fox. John Toll.

Costume Design

Beloved, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Colleen Atwood.

Elizabeth, Working Title Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK) Alexandra Byrne.

Pleasantville, Larger Than Life Production; New Line. Judianna Makovsky.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Sandy Powell.

Velvet Goldmine, Zenith/Killer Films Production; Miramax Films. (UK, USA) Sandy Powell.

Documentary

(Feature)

Dancemaker, Four Oaks Foundation Production. Matthew Diamond and Jerry Kupfer.

The Farm: Angola, U.S.A., Gabriel Films Production. Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus.

The Last Days, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Production; October Films. James Moll and Ken Lipper.

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, Whyaduck Productions. Robert B. Weide.

Regret to Inform, Sun Fountain Production. Barbara Sonneborn and Janet Cole.

(Short Subject)

The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in The Golden Years, Keiko Ibi Film Production. Keiko Ibi.

A Place in the Land, Guggenheim Productions. Charles Guggenheim.

Sunrise over Tiananmen Square, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada) Shui-Bo Wang and Donald McWilliams.

Film Editing

Life Is Beautiful, Melampo Cinematografica Production; Miramax Films. (Italy) Simona Paggi.

Out of Sight, Jersey Films Production; Universal. Anne V. Coates.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Michael Kahn.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) David Gamble.

The Thin Red Line, Fox 2000 Pictures Presentation from Phoenix Pictures in association with George Stevens, Jr.; 20th Century Fox. Billy Weber, Leslie Jones and Saar Klein.

Foreign Language Film

Central Station, Arthur Cohn Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Brazil, France)

Children of Heaven, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults Production; Miramax Films. (Iran)

The Grandfather, Nickel Odeon Dos S.A. Production; Miramax Films. (Spain)

Life Is Beautiful, Melampo Cinematografica Production; Miramax Films. (Italy)

Tango, Argentina Sono Film/Alma ATA International Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Spain, Argentina)

Makeup

Elizabeth, Working Title Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK) Jenny Shircore.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Lois Burwell, Conor O’Sullivan and Daniel C. Striepeke.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Lisa Westcott and Veronica Brebner.

Music

(Original Dramatic Score)

Elizabeth, Working Title Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK) David Hirschfelder.

Life Is Beautiful, Melampo Cinematografica Production; Miramax Films. (Italy) Nicola Piovani.

Pleasantville, Larger Than Life Production; New Line. Randy Newman.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. John Williams.

The Thin Red Line, Fox 2000 Pictures Presentation from Phoenix Pictures in association with George Stevens, Jr.; 20th Century Fox. Hans Zimmer.

(Original Musical or Comedy Score)

A Bug’s Life, Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios Production; Buena Vista. Randy Newman.

Mulan, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Matthew Wilder; lyrics by David Zippel; orchestral score by Jerry Goldsmith.

Patch Adams, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Marc Shaiman.

The Prince of Egypt, DreamWorks SKG Production; DreamWorks SKG. Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; orchestral score by Hans Zimmer.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Stephen Warbeck.

(Original Song)

I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing from Armageddon, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music and lyric by Diane Warren.

The Prayer from Quest for Camelot, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Music by Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster; lyric by Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster, Tony Renis and Alberto Testa.

A Soft Place to Fall from The Horse Whisperer, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music and lyric by Allison Moorer and Gwil Owen.

That’ll Do from Babe: Pig in the City, Kennedy Miller Media Pty. Ltd. Production; Universal. (Australia) Music and lyric by Randy Newman.

When You Believe from The Prince of Egypt, DreamWorks SKG Production; DreamWorks SKG. Music and lyric by Stephen Schwartz.

Short Films

(Animated)

Bunny, Blue Sky Studios, Inc. Production. Chris Wedge.

The Canterbury Tales, S4C/BBC Wales/HBO Production. (Russia, UK) Christopher Grace and Jonathan Myerson.

Jolly Roger, Astley Baker/Silver Bird Production for Channel Four. (UK) Mark Baker.

More, Bad Clams Productions/Swell Productions/Flemington Pictures Production. Mark Osborne and Steve Kalafer.

When Life Departs, A. Film Production. (Denmark) Karsten Kiilerich and Stefan Fjeldmark.

(Live Action)

Culture, False Alarm Pictures Production. Will Speck and Josh Gordon.

Election Night (Valgaften), M & M Production. (Denmark) Kim Magnusson and Anders Thomas Jensen.

Holiday Romance, Jovy Junior Enterprises Ltd. Production. (UK) Alexander Jovy and JJ Keith.

La Carte Postale (The Postcard), K2 S.A. Production. (Belgium) Vivian Goffette.

Victor, Bergvall Bilder/Hemikrania Production. (Sweden) Simon Sandquist and Joel Bergvall.

Sound

Armageddon, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester.

The Mask of Zorro, Amblin Entertainment Production; TriStar. (USA, Germany, Mexico) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Pud Cusack.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Ronald Judkins.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Robin O’Donoghue, Dominic Lester and Peter Glossop.

The Thin Red Line, Fox 2000 Pictures Presentation from Phoenix Pictures in association with George Stevens, Jr.; 20th Century Fox. Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Paul Brincat.

Sound Effects Editing

Armageddon, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. George Watters II.

The Mask of Zorro, Amblin Entertainment Production; TriStar. (USA, Germany, Mexico) David McMoyler.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns.

Visual Effects

Armageddon, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Richard R. Hoover, Pat McClung and John Frazier.

Mighty Joe Young, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Rick Baker, Hoyt Yeatman, Allen Hall and Jim Mitchell.

What Dreams May Come, Interscope Communications Production in association with Metafilmics; PolyGram. (USA, New Zealand) Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robertson and Kevin Mack.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

Gods and Monsters, Regent Pictures; Lions Gate Films. (USA, UK) Bill Condon.

Out of Sight, Jersey Films Production; Universal. Scott Frank.

Primary Colors, Universal Pictures Production; Universal and Mutual Film Company. (UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA) Elaine May.

A Simple Plan, Mutual Film Company Production; Paramount and Mutual Film Company in association with Savoy Pictures. (UK, Germany, France, USA, Japan) Scott B. Smith.

The Thin Red Line, Fox 2000 Pictures Presentation from Phoenix Pictures in association with George Stevens, Jr.; 20th Century Fox. Terrence Malick.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Bulworth, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Screenplay by Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser; story by Warren Beatty.

Life Is Beautiful, Melampo Cinematografica Production; Miramax Films. (Italy) Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni.

Saving Private Ryan, Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Mutual Film Company; DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Robert Rodat.

Shakespeare in Love, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures, Bedford Falls Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard.

The Truman Show, Scott Rudin Production; Paramount. Andrew Niccol.

Honorary Award

To Elia Kazan in recognition of his indelible contributions to the art of motion picture direction. [ [Statuette]]

To David W. Gray in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Norman Jewison

Scientific and Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Avid Technology, Inc. for the concept, system design and engineering of the Avid Film Composer for motion picture editing.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Dr. Thomas G. Stockham, Jr. and Robert B. Ingebretsen for their pioneering work in the areas of waveform editing, crossfades and cut-and-paste techniques for digital audio editing.

To James A. Moorer for his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film.

To Stephen J. Kay of K-Tec Corporation for the design and development of the Shock Block.

To Gary Tregaskis for the primary design; and to Dominique Boisvert, Philippe Panzini and André LeBlanc for the development and implementation of the Flame and Inferno software.

To Robert Predovich, John Scott, Mohamed Ken T. Husain and Cameron Shearer for the design and implementation of the Soundmaster Integrated Operations Nucleus operating environment.

To Roy B. Ference, Steven R. Schmidt, Richard J. Federico, Rockwell Yarid and Michael E. McCrackan for the design and development of the Kodak Lightning Laser Recorder.

To Colin Mossman, Hans Leisinger and George John Rowland of Deluxe Laboratories for the concept and design of the Deluxe High Speed Spray Film Cleaner.

To Arnold & Richter Cine Technik, and Arri USA, Inc. for the concept and engineering of the Arriflex 435 Camera System.

To Arnold & Richter Cine Technik and the Carl Zeiss Company for the concept and optical design of the Carl Zeiss/Arriflex Variable Prime Lenses.

To Derek C. Lightbody of OpTex for the design and development of Aurasoft Luminaires.

To Mark Roberts, Ronan Carroll, Assaff Rawner, Paul Bartlett and Simon Wakley for the creation of the Milo Motion-Control Crane.

To Michael Sorensen and Richard Alexander of Sorensen Designs International, and Donald Trumbull for advancing the state-of-the-art of real-time motion-control, as exemplified in the Gazelle and Zebra camera dolly systems.

To Ronald E. Uhlig, Thomas F. Powers and Fred M. Fuss of the Eastman Kodak Company for the design and development of KeyKode latent-image barcode key numbers.

To Iain Neil for the optical design; Takuo Miyagishima for the mechanical design; and Panavision, Incorporated, for the concept and development of the Primo Series of spherical prime lenses for 35mm cinematography.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Garrett Brown and Jerry Holway for the creation of the Skyman flying platform for Stedicam operators.

To James Rodnunsky, James Webber and Bob Webber of Cablecam Systems, and Trou Bayliss for the design and engineering of Cablecam.

To David DiFrancesco, Bala S. Manian and Thomas L. Noggle for their pioneering efforts in the development of laser film recording technology.

To Michael MacKenzie, Mike Bolles, Udo Pampel and Joseph Fulmer of Industrial Light & Magic for their pioneering work in motion-controlled, silent camera dollies.

To Barry Walton, Bill Schultz, Chris Barker and David Cornelius of Sony Pictures Imageworks for the creation of an advanced motion-controlled, silent camera dolly.

To Bruce Wilton and Carlos Icinkoff of Mechanical Concepts for their modular system of motion-control rotators and movers for use in motion-control.

To Remy Smith for the software and electronic design and development; and James K. Branch and Nasir J. Zaidi for the design and development of the Spectra Professional IV-A digital exposure meter.

To Ivan Kruglak for his commitment to the development of a wireless transmission system for video-assisted images for the motion picture industry.

To Dr. Douglas R. Roble for his contribution to tracking technology and for the design and implementation of the TRACK system for camera position calculation and scene reconstruction.

To Thaddeus Beier for the design and implementation of ras_track, a system for 2D tracking, stabilization, and 3D camera and object tracking.

To Manfred N. Klemme and Donald E. Wetzel for the design and development of the K-Tek Microphone Boom Pole and accessories for on-set motion picture sound recording.

To Nick Foster for his software development in the field of water simulation systems.

To Cary Phillips for the design and development of the “Caricature” Animation System at Industrial Light & Magic.

To Dr. Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz of the Eastman Kodak Company, and Jim Meyer and Stan Miller of Rosco Laboratories, Inc. for the design of the CalColor Calibrated Color Effects Filters.

To Dr. A. Tulsi Ram, Richard C. Sehlin, Dr. Carl F. Holtz and David F. Kopperl of the Eastman Kodak Company for the research and development of the concept of molecular sieves applied to improve the archival properties of processed photographic film.

To Takuo Miyagishima and Albert K. Saiki of Panavision, Inc. for the design and development of the Eyepiece Leveler.

To Edmund M. Di Giulio and James Bartell of Cinema Products for the design of the KeyKode Sync Reader.

To Ivan Kruglak for his pioneering concept and the development of the Coherent Time Code Slate.

To Mike Denecke for refining and further developing electronic time code slates.

To Ed Zwaneveld and Frederick Gasoi of the National Film Board of Canada, and Mike Lazaridis and Dale Brubacher-Cressman of Research in Motion for the design and development of the DigiSync Film KeyKode Reader.