<div style="float: right; font-size: smaller; background-color:#E6E6FA; padding: 12px; margin-left: 5em; margin-bottom: 2em; width: 180px" align="center"> **33rd NSFC Awards** January 3, 1999 Best Film: ** Out of Sight ** The **33rd National Society of Film Critics Awards**, given on 3 January 1999, honored the best filmmaking of [1998](https://bliptext.com/articles/1998-in-film).

Winners

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
3. 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

Special Citation