The 1998 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, presented by Fangoria magazine and Creation Entertainment, honored the best horror films of 1997.https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0001163/1998/1/?ref_=ev_tl_yr_2

Winners and nominees

Best Wide Release Best Limited Release Scream 2 − Directed by Wes Craven Alien Resurrection − Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet The Devil's Advocate − Directed by Taylor Hackford | valign="top" | Lost Highway − Directed by David Lynch Crash − Directed by David Cronenberg |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actor ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Actress |- | valign="top" | Al Pacino − The Devil's Advocate as John Milton / Satan Andrew Divoff − Wishmaster as The Djinn / Nathaniel Demerest Sam Neill − Event Horizon | valign="top" | Sigourney Weaver − Alien Resurrection as Ellen Ripley Neve Campbell − Scream 2 as Sidney Prescott |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Supporting Actor ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Supporting Actress |- | valign="top" | Robert Blake − Lost Highway as The Mystery Man Liev Schreiber − Scream 2 as Cotton Weary as The Violator John Leguizamo − Spawn | valign="top" | Courteney Cox − Scream 2 as Gale Weathers Charlize Theron − The Devil's Advocate as Mary Ann Lomax |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Screenplay ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Score |- | valign="top" | Scream 2 − Kevin Williamson Lost Highway − David Lynch and Barry Gifford | valign="top" | Lost Highway − Angelo Badalamenti Mimic − Marco Beltrami |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Make-Up/Creature FX ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Worst Film |- | valign="top" | Starship Troopers − Phil Tippett and Kevin Yagher Alien Resurrection − Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. | valign="top" | Spawn − Directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé Anaconda − Directed by Luis Llosa |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#EEDD82" | Chick You Don't Wanna Mess With |- | colspan="2 valign="top" | Jennifer Love Hewitt − I Know What You Did Last Summer

Fangoria Horror Hall of Fame Kevin Williamson Sigourney Weaver Lucio Fulci

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