70th Academy Awards (1998)
Highlights of 70th Academy Awards ceremony
The 70th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1997.
The award ceremony was held on 23rd March 1998 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California.
Billy Crystal was the anchor of the show.
Titanic was the winner of maximum awards.
Titanic won the Best Picture award.
Jack Nicholson won the Best Actor award for his role in As Good As It Gets.
Helen Hunt won the Best Actess award for her role in As Good as It Gets.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Titanic
As Good as It Gets
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
Best Director
Titanic
- James Cameron
Good Will Hunting
- Gus Van Sant
L.A. Confidential
- Curtis Hanson
The Sweet Hereafter
- Atom Egoyan
The Full Monty
- Peter Cattaneo
Best Original Screenplay
Good Will Hunting
- Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Deconstructing Harry
- Woody Allen
The Full Monty
- Simon Beaufoy
As Good as It Gets
- Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks
Boogie Nights
- Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Adapted Screenplay
L.A. Confidential
- Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
Donnie Brasco
- Paul Attanasio
The Sweet Hereafter
- Atom Egoyan
Wag the Dog
- David Mamet, Hilary Henkin
The Wings of the Dove
- Hossein Amini
Best Actor in a Leading Role
As Good As It Gets
- Jack Nicholson
Good Will Hunting
- Matt Damon
Wag The Dog
- Dustin Hoffman
The Apostle
- Robert Duvall
Ulee's Gold
- Peter Fonda
Best Actress in a Leading Role
As Good as It Gets
- Helen Hunt
Titanic
- Kate Winslet
Afterglow
- Julie Christie
The Wings of the Dove
- Helena Bonham Carter
Mrs. Brown
- Judi Dench
Best Supporting Actor
Good Will Hunting
- Robin Williams
As Good as It Gets
- Greg Kinnear
Jackie Brown
- Robert Forster
Boogie Nights
- Burt Reynolds
Amistad
- Anthony Hopkins
Best Supporting Actress
L.A. Confidential
- Kim Basinger
Boogie Nights
- Julianne Moore
In And Out
- Joan Cusack
Good Will Hunting
- Minnie Driver
Titanic
- Gloria Stuart
Best Art Direction
Titanic
- Peter Lamont, Michael Ford
Men in Black
- Bo Welch, Cheryl Carasik
Kundun
- Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Gattaca
- Jan Roelfs, Nancy Nye
L.A. Confidential
- Jeannine Oppewall, Jay Hart
Best Cinematography
Titanic
- Russell Carpenter
L.A. Confidential
- Dante Spinotti
The Wings of the Dove
- Eduardo Serra
Amistad
- Janusz Kaminski
Kundun
- Roger Deakins
Best Original Song
Titanic
- James Horner, Will Jennings
for "My Heart Will Go On"
Anastasia
- Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens
for "Journey to the Past"
Con Air
- Diane Warren
for "How Do I Live"
Good Will Hunting
- Elliott Smith
for "Miss Misery"
Hercules
- Alan Menken, David Zippel
for "Go the Distance"
Best Sound Mixing
Titanic
- Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano
Contact
- Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William Kaplan
Air Force One
- Paul Massey, Rick Kline, D.M. Hemphill, Keith Wester
Con Air
- Kevin O'Connell, Greg Russell, Arthur Rochester
L.A. Confidential
- Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Kirk Francis
Best Sound Editing
Titanic
- Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes
Face/Off
- Mark Stoeckinger, Per Hallberg
The Fifth Element
- Mark Mangini
Best Visual Effects
Titanic
- Robert Legato, Mark A. Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer
The Lost World - Jurassic Park
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Randal Dutra, Michael Lantieri
Starship Troopers
- Phil Tippett, Scott Anderson, Alec Gillis, John Richardson
Best Costume Design
Titanic
- Deborah Lynn Scott
Kundun
- Dante Ferretti
Oscar and Lucinda
- Janet Patterson
Amistad
- Ruth E. Carter
The Wings of the Dove
- Sandy Powell
Best Makeup
Men in Black
- Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson
Mrs. Brown
- Lisa Westcott, Veronica Brebner, Beverley Binda
Titanic
- Tina Earnshaw, Greg Cannom, Simon Thompson
Best Animated Short Film
Geri's Game
Famous Fred
Redux Riding Hood
Rusalka
La Vieille dame et les pigeons
Best Documentary Feature
The Long Way Home
4 Little Girls
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
Colors Straight Up
Waco - The Rules of Engagement
Best Documentary Short Subject
A Story of Healing
Alaska - Spirit of the Wild
Amazon
Family Video Diaries - Daughter of the Bride
Still Kicking - The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
Best Foreign Language Film
Karakter (The Netherlands)
- Mike van Diem
Jenseits der Stille (Germany)
- Caroline Link
O Que É Isso, Companheiro? (Brazil)
- Bruno Barreto
Secretos del corazón (Spain)
- Montxo Armendáriz
Vor (Russia)
- Pavel Chukhray
Academy Honorary Award
Stanley Donen
Best Live Action Short Film
Visas and Virtue
- Chris Tashima, Chris Donahue
Dance Lexie Dance
- Tim Loane
It's Good to Talk
Skal vi vaere kaerester?
Wolfgang
- Anders Thomas Jensen, Kim Magnusson
Best Film Editing
Titanic
- Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
L.A. Confidential
- Peter Honess
Good Will Hunting
- Pietro Scalia
Air Force One
- Richard Francis Bruce
As Good As It Gets
- Richard Marks