18th BSFC Awards December 14, 1997
Best Film: L.A. Confidential The 18th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best films of 1997. The awards were given on 14 December 1997.
Winners Best Film 1. L.A. Confidential 2. The Sweet Hereafter 3. Donnie Brasco
Best Actor Al Pacino – Donnie Brasco
Best Actress 1. Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove 2. Katrin Cartlidge – Career Girls 3. Tilda Swinton – Female Perversions
Best Supporting Actor 1. Kevin Spacey – L.A. Confidential 2. Burt Reynolds – Boogie Nights 3. Robert Downey Jr. – One Night Stand
Best Supporting Actress 1. Sarah Polley – The Sweet Hereafter 2. Joan Cusack – In & Out 3. Alison Elliott – The Wings of the Dove
Best Director 1. Curtis Hanson – L.A. Confidential 2. Atom Egoyan – The Sweet Hereafter 3. Mike Newell – Donnie Brasco
Best Screenplay 1. Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland – L.A. Confidential 2. Kevin Smith – Chasing Amy 3. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck – Good Will Hunting
Best Cinematography 1. Roger Deakins – Kundun 2. Eduardo Serra – The Wings of the Dove 3. Paul Sarossy – The Sweet Hereafter
Best Documentary 1. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 2. Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist 3. Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival
Best Foreign-Language Film 1. Underground • France/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Germany/Bulgaria/Hungary 2. Shall We Dance? (Shall we dansu?) • Japan 3. Irma Vep • France
Best New Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson – Hard Eight and Boogie Nights
External links Past Winners
References The Boston Globe Noir thriller is big Boston crix winner The Variety 1997 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Internet Movie Database