24th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (1998)

Best Picture:

	Saving Private Ryan
	Runner-up: The Butcher Boy

Best Director:

	Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
	Runner-up: John Boorman - The General

Best Actor:

	Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
	Runner-up: Nick Nolte - Affliction

Best Actress (tie):

	Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station (Central do Brasil)
	Ally Sheedy - High Art

Best Supporting Actor (tie):

	Bill Murray - Rushmore and Wild Things
	Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan

Best Supporting Actress:

	Joan Allen - Pleasantville
	Runner-up: Kathy Bates - Primary Colors

Best Screenplay:

	Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser - Bulworth
	Runner-up: Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard - Shakespeare in Love

Best Cinematography:

	Janusz Kamiński - Saving Private Ryan
	Runner-up: Seamus Deasy - The General

Best Production Design:

	Jeannine Oppewall - Pleasantville
	Runner-up: Dennis Gassner - The Truman Show

Best Music Score:

	Elliot Goldenthal - The Butcher Boy
	Runner-up: Carter Burwell - Gods and Monsters

Best Foreign-Language Film:

	The Celebration (Festen) • Denmark/Sweden
	Runner-up: Central Station (Central do Brasil) • Brazil/France

Best Non-Fiction Film:

	The Farm: Angola, USA
	Runner-up: Public Housing

Best Animation:

	A Bug's Life (feature)
	T.R.A.N.S.I.T. (short)

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:

Elisabeth Subrin - Shulie

New Generation Award:

Wes Anderson - Rushmore

Career Achievement Award:

	Julius J. Epstein
	Abraham Polonsky

Special Citation:

	Rick Schmidlin, Walter Murch, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Bob O'Neil for the restoration of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil
	Barbara Zicka Smith for her work running the American Cinemateque