23rd César Awards (1998)

Best Film

	Same Old Song
	On Guard
	The Fifth Element
	Marius and Jeannette
	Western

Best Director

	Luc Besson - The Fifth Element
	Alain Corneau - Le Cousin
	Robert Guédiguian - Marius and Jeannette
	Alain Resnais - Same Old Song
	Manuel Poirier - Western

Best Actor

	André Dussollier - Same Old Song
	Daniel Auteuil - On Guard
	Charles Berling - Dry Cleaning
	Alain Chabat - Didier
	Patrick Timsit - Le Cousin

Best Actress

	Ariane Ascaride - Marius and Jeannette
	Sabine Azéma - Same Old Song
	Marie Gillain - On Guard
	Sandrine Kiberlain - Seventh Heaven
	Miou-Miou - Dry Cleaning

Best Supporting Actor

	Jean-Pierre Bacri - Same Old Song
	Jean-Pierre Darroussin - Marius and Jeannette
	Gérard Jugnot - Marthe
	Vincent Pérez - On Guard
	Lambert Wilson - Same Old Song

Best Supporting Actress

	Agnès Jaoui - Same Old Song
	Pascale Roberts - Marius and Jeannette
	Mathilde Seigner - Dry Cleaning
	Marie Trintignant - Le Cousin
	Karin Viard - Hikers

Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation

	Same Old Song - Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri
	Le Cousin - Michel Alexandre and Alain Corneau
	Marius and Jeannette - Robert Guédiguian and Jean-Louis Milesi
	Dry Cleaning - Anne Fontaine and Gilles Taurand
	Western - Jean-François Goyet and Manuel Poirier

Best Editing

	Hervé de Luze - Same Old Song
	Henri Lanoë - On Guard
	Sylvie Landra - The Fifth Element

Best Cinematography

	Thierry Arbogast - The Fifth Element
	Benoît Delhomme - Artemisia
	Jean-François Robin - On Guard

Best Production Design

	Dan Weil - The Fifth Element
	Bernard Vezat - On Guard
	Jacques Saulnier - Same Old Song

Best Costume Design

	Christian Gasc - On Guard
	Dominique Borg - Artemisia
	Jean-Paul Gaultier - The Fifth Element

Best Original Music

	Bernardo Sandoval - Western
	Philippe Sarde - On Guard
	Éric Serra - The Fifth Element
	Jordi Savall - Marquise
	Bruno Fontaine - Same Old Song

Best Sound

	Jean-Pierre Laforce, Michel Klochendler and Pierre Lenoir - Same Old Song
	Daniel Brisseau - The Fifth Element
	Pierre Gamet and Gérard Lamps - Le Cousin

Best Foreign Film

	Brassed Off
	The English Patient
	Everyone Says I Love You
	The Full Monty
	Hana-bi

Best First Feature Film

	Didier
	The Other Shore
	Les Démons de Jésus
	La Vie de Jésus
	Ma vie en rose

Most Promising Actor

	Stanislas Merhar - Dry Cleaning
	Sacha Bourdo - Western
	Vincent Elbaz - Hikers
	José Garcia - La Vérité si je mens !
	Sergi López - Western

Most Promising Actress

	Emma de Caunes - Un frère
	Jeanne Balibar - I Hate Love
	Isabelle Carré - The Banned Woman
	Amira Casar - La Vérité si je mens !
	Laetitia Pesenti - Marius and Jeannette

Best Short Film

	Majorettes in Space (Des majorettes dans l'espace)
	Ferrailles
	Seule
	Tout doit disparaître
	The Old Lady and the Pigeons

Honorary César

	Michael Douglas
	Clint Eastwood
	Jean-Luc Godard