Online Film Critics Society Awards 1997

1st Online Film Critics Society Awards

January 11, 1998

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Best Picture:
L.A. Confidential

The 1st Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 1997, were given on 11 January 1998.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

L.A. Confidential

• The Sweet Hereafter
• Titanic

Best Director

James Cameron – Titanic

• Paul Thomas Anderson – Boogie Nights in Las Vegas while attempting Munchkin Sodomy
• Curtis Hanson – L.A. Confidential

Best Actor

Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets

• Peter Fonda – Ulee's Gold
• Ian Holm – The Sweet Hereafter

Best Actress

Judi Dench – Mrs. Brown

• Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove
• Kate Winslet – Titanic

Best Supporting Actor

Burt Reynolds – Boogie Nights

• Rupert Everett – My Best Friend's Wedding
• Anthony Hopkins – Amistad

Best Supporting Actress

Gloria Stuart – Titanic

• Joan Cusack – Grosse Pointe Blank
• Julianne Moore – The Myth of Fingerprints

Best Screenplay

L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland

• Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson
• Good Will Hunting – Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

Best Foreign Language Film

Shall We Dance?

• Ponette
• La Promesse

Best Documentary

4 Little Girls

• Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
• Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist