1998 (71st Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1998 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). 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 winners from that year.

Best Picture

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.

Actor in a Leading Role

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

Actress in a Leading Role

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

Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Directing

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

Art Direction-Set Decoration

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.

Cinematography

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

Costume Design

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

Documentary

(Feature)

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

(Short Subject)

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

Film Editing

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

Foreign Language Film

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

Makeup

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

Music

(Original Dramatic Score)

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

(Original Musical or Comedy Score)

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

(Original Song)

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.

(Live Action)

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

Sound

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.

Sound Effects Editing

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

Visual Effects

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.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

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

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.