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70th Annual

Academy Award Winners

and Nominees
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
winners announced March 23, 1998

Best Picture

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers
  2. James L. Brooks, Bridgit Johnson and Kristi Zea, producers
  3. Uberto Pasolini, producer
  4. Lawrence Bender, producer
  5. Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson and Michael Nathanson, producers

Directing/Director

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    James Cameron
  2. Peter Cattaneo
  3. Atom Egoyan
    “The Sweet Hereafter”
  4. Curtis Hanson

Visual Effects

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer
  2. Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Randal M. Dutra, Michael Lantieri
  3. Phil Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, John Richardson

Writing
Original Screenplay

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Good Will Hunting
  2. Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks
  3. Paul Thomas Anderson
  4. Deconstructing Harry
  5. Simon Beaufoy

Writing
Adapted Screenplay

  1. L.A. Confidential
    Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
  2. Paul Attanasio
    “Donnie Brasco”
  3. Atom Egoyan
    “The Sweet Hereafter”
  4. Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
  5. Hossein Amini
    “The Wings of the Dove”

Cinematography

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    Russell Carpenter
  2. Janusz Kaminski
  3. Roger Deakins
  4. Dante Spinotti
  5. Eduardo Serra
    “The Wings of the Dove”

Actor
in a leading role

  1. Oscar® Winner

    As Good As It Gets
  2. Matt Damon as Will Hunting
  3. Robert Duvall as Euliss “Sonny” Dewey, a.k.a. “The Apostle E.F.”
  4. Peter Fonda as Ulysses “Ulee” Jackson
  5. Dustin Hoffman as Stanley Motss

Actor
in a supporting role

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Good Will Hunting
    Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire
  2. Robert Forster as Max Cherry
  3. Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams
  4. Greg Kinnear as Simon Bishop
  5. Burt Reynolds as Jack Horner

Film Editing

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
  2. Richard Francis-Bruce
  3. Richard Marks
  4. Pietro Scalia
  5. Peter Honess

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

  1. Oscar® Winner

    The Full Monty
    Anne Dudley
  2. Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, David Newman
  3. Hans Zimmer
  4. Danny Elfman
  5. James Newton Howard

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    James Horner
  2. John Williams
  3. Danny Elfman
  4. Philip Glass
  5. Jerry Goldsmith

Sound

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano
  2. Paul Massey, Rick Kline, D.M. Hemphill, Keith A. Wester
  3. Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Arthur Rochester
  4. Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William B. Kaplan
  5. Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Kirk Francis

Actress
in a leading role

  1. Oscar® Winner

    As Good as It Gets
    Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly
  2. “The Wings of the Dove”
  3. Julie Christie as Phyllis Mann
    “Afterglow”
  4. Judi Dench as Queen Victoria
  5. Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater

Actress
in a supporting role

  1. Oscar® Winner

    L.A. Confidential
    Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken
  2. Gloria Stuart

Art Direction

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    Peter Lamont
  2. Jan Roelfs, Nancy Nye
  3. Dante Ferretti, Francesca LoSchiavo
  4. Jeannine Claudia Oppewall, Jay Hart
  5. Bo Welch, Cheryl Carasik

Costume Design

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    Deborah Lynn Scott
  2. Ruth E. Carter
  3. Dante Ferretti
  4. Janet Patterson
  5. Sandy Powell
    “The Wings of the Dove”

Makeup

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Men in Black
    Rick Baker and David LeRoy Anderson
  2. Veronica Brebner, Beverly Binda
  3. Tina Earnshaw, Greg Cannom, Simon Thompson

Sound Effects Editing

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Titanic
    Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes
  2. Mark P. Stoeckinger, Per Halberg
  3. Mark Mangini