33rd National Society of Film Critics Awards (1998)

Best Picture

	1. Out of Sight
	2. Affliction
	3. Saving Private Ryan

Best Director

	1. Steven Soderbergh - Out of Sight
	2. Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
	2. Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan

Best Actor

	1. Nick Nolte - Affliction
	2. Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
	3. Brendan Gleeson - The General and I Went Down

Best Actress

	1. Ally Sheedy - High Art
	2. Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth
	3. Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station (Central do Brasil)

Best Supporting Actor

	1. Bill Murray - Rushmore
	2. Donald Sutherland - Without Limits
	3. Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan

Best Supporting Actress

	1. Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
	2. Patricia Clarkson - High Art
	3. Lisa Kudrow - The Opposite of Sex

Best Screenplay

	1. Scott Frank - Out of Sight
	2. Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard - Shakespeare in Love
	3. Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson - Rushmore

Best Cinematography

	1. John Toll - The Thin Red Line
	2. Janusz Kamiński - Saving Private Ryan
	3. Seamus Deasy - The General

Best Foreign Language Film

	1. Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass)
	2. Fireworks (Hana-bi)
	3. The Celebration (Festen)

Best Non-Fiction Film

	1. The Farm: Angola, USA
	2. Public Housing
	3. Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Experimental Film

Mother and Son (Mat i syn)

Special Citation

	Walter Murch, Rick Schmidlin, Bob O'Neil and Jonathan Rosenbaum for the re-editing of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil
	Reprinting of an expanded edition of one of the seminal collections of film criticism, Manny Farber's Negative Space