3rd_Critics'_Choice_Awards Knowpia

3rd Critics' Choice Movie Awards
3rd Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Date	January 20, 1998
Official website	www.criticschoice.com
Highlights
Best Film	L.A. Confidential
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The 3rd Critics' Choice Movie Awards were presented on January 20, 1998, honoring the finest achievements of 1997 filmmaking.^[1]

Top 10 films edit

(in alphabetical order)

James Cameron, Best Director winner

Jack Nicholson, Best Actor winner

Helena Bonham Carter, Best Actress winner

Anthony Hopkins, Best Supporting Actor winner

Joan Cusack, Best Supporting Actress winner

Jurnee Smollett, Best Child Performance winner

Curtis Hanson, Best Screenplay Adaptation co-winner

Ben Affleck, Best Original Screenplay co-winner

Matt Damon, Best Original Screenplay co-winner and Breakthrough Performer winner

Robert Wise, Lifetime Achievement Award winner

Best Actor:
- Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets
Best Actress:
- Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove
Best Child Performance:
- Jurnee Smollett – Eve's Bayou
Best Director:
- James Cameron – Titanic
Best Documentary:
- 4 Little Girls
Best Family Film:
- Anastasia
Best Foreign Language Film:
- Shall We Dance? (Shall we dansu?) • Japan
Best Original Screenplay:
- Good Will Hunting – Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Best Picture:
- L.A. Confidential
Best Picture Made for Television:
- Don King: Only in America
Best Screenplay Adaptation:
- L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
Best Supporting Actor:
- Anthony Hopkins – Amistad
Best Supporting Actress:
- Joan Cusack – In & Out
Breakthrough Performer:
- Matt Damon – Good Will Hunting
Lifetime Achievement Award:
- Robert Wise

^ "The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1997". Broadcast Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008. Retrieved January 7, 2014.