National Board of Review Awards 1997

The 69th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 1997, were announced on 9 December 1997 and given on 9 February 1998.

69th National Board of Review Awards

December 9, 1997

Best Picture:
L.A. Confidential

Top 10 films

Top Foreign Films

Winners

Best Picture:
- L.A. Confidential
Best Foreign Film:
- Shall We Dance?
Best Actor:
- Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets
Best Actress:
- Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove
Best Supporting Actor:
- Greg Kinnear - As Good as It Gets
Best Supporting Actress:
- Anne Heche - Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog
Best Acting by an Ensemble
- The Sweet Hereafter
Breakthrough Performance:
- Bai Ling - Red Corner
Best Director:
- Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
Outstanding Directorial Debut:
- Kasi Lemmons - Eve's Bayou
Best Documentary:
- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Career Achievement Award:
- Robert Duvall
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:
- Francis Ford Coppola
Special Achievement in Filmmaking:
- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
William K. Everson Award for Film History
- Gavin Lambert, Nazimova
Freedom of Expression:
- Richard Gere and Jon Avnet - Red Corner
Special Citations:
- Edward Bernds, Lifetime Achievement in Film Technology
- James Cameron, Special Effects Technology, Titanic
Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking:
- The Apostle
- Chasing Amy
- The Daytrippers
- Different for Girls
- Gridlock'd
- In the Company of Men
- Star Maps
- The Tango Lesson
- Telling Lies in America
- Welcome to Sarajevo

External links

National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1997

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