Satellite Awards 1997
The 2nd presentation of the US American Satellite Awards , which the International Press Academy (IPA) awards each year in various film and media categories, took place on Sunday, February 22, 1998 in Los Angeles . Films and series from 1997 were honored at the 2nd Satellite Awards .
Film winners and nominees
Best Film (Drama)
Best Film (Comedy / Musical)
Best Actor (Drama)
- Russell Crowe - LA Confidential
- Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Titanic
- Djimon Hounsou - Amistad
- Mark Wahlberg - Boogie Nights
Best Actress (Drama)
Judi Dench - Her Majesty Mrs. Brown
- Joan Allen - The Ice Storm
- Helena Bonham Carter - Wings of the Dove
- Julie Christie - Love Whispers
- Kate Winslet - Titanic
Best Actor (Comedy / Musical)
Jack Nicholson - It couldn't be better
- Robert Carlyle - All or nothing
- Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog - When the tail wags the dog
- Tommy Lee Jones - Men in Black
- Kevin Kline - In & Out
- Howard Stern - Private Parts
Best Actress (Comedy / Musical)
Helen Hunt - It couldn't be better
- Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
- Lisa Kudrow - Romy and Michele
- Parker Posey - Who's Afraid of Jackie-O.?
- Julia Roberts - My best friend's wedding
Best Supporting Actor (Drama)
- Billy Connolly - Her Majesty Mrs. Brown
- Danny DeVito - The Rainmaker
- Samuel L. Jackson - Eve's Bayou
- Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
Best Supporting Actress (Drama)
Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
- Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting
- Ashley Judd - ... because they are there to be kissed
- Debbi Morgan - Eve's Bayou
- Sigourney Weaver - The Ice Storm
Best Supporting Actor (Comedy / Musical)
Rupert Everett - My best friend's wedding
- Mark Addy - All or nothing
- Cuba Gooding, Jr. - It couldn't be better
- Greg Kinnear - It couldn't be better
- Rip Torn - Men in Black
Best Supporting Actress (Comedy / Musical)
- Cameron Diaz - My best friend's wedding
- Linda Fiorentino - Men in Black
- Anne Heche - Wag the Dog
- Shirley Knight - It couldn't be better
Best documentary
- Fast, cheap and out of control
- Hype!
- Shooting Porn
- Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, super masochist
Best foreign language film
Shall we dance? (Shall We Dansu?) • Japan
- My life in rose red (Ma vie en rose) • France
- Ponette • France
- La Promesse • Belgium
- Live Flesh - With skin and hair (Carne trémula) • Spain
Best film (animated film or real / animated film)
Best director
- Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights
- Curtis Hanson - LA Confidential
- Steven Spielberg - Amistad
- Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting
Best adapted script
LA Confidential - Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
- Amistad - David Franzoni
- The Ice Storm - James Schamus
- The sweet afterlife - Atom Egoyan
- Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini
Best original script
Good Will Hunting - Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
- Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
- All or nothing - Simon Beaufoy
- Her Majesty Mrs. Brown - Jeremy Brock
- Titanic - James Cameron
Best film score
- Amistad - John Williams
- Anastasia - David Newman
- LA Confidential - Jerry Goldsmith
- One Night Stand - Mike Figgis
Best movie song
My Heart Will Go On by James Horner and Will Jennings - Titanic
- Journey to the Past - Anastasia
- Once Upon a December - Anastasia
- A Song for Mama - Soul Food
- Tomorrow Never Dies - James Bond 007 - Tomorrow never dies
Best camera
Best visual effects
Best film editing
Titanic - Richard A. Harris and Conrad Buff
Best production design
Best costume design
- Amistad
- Beaumarchais - The Insolent
- Your Majesty Mrs. Brown
- Wings of the Dove - The wings of the dove
Television winners and nominees
Best TV Series (Drama)
Best TV Series (Comedy / Musical)
Best mini-series or best TV movie
Best Actor in a Series (Drama)
Jimmy Smits - New York Cops - NYPD Blue
- David Duchovny - The X Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases
- Dennis Franz - New York Cops - NYPD Blue
- Sam Waterston - Law & Order
- Michael T. Weiss - Pretender
Best Actress in a Series (Drama)
Kate Mulgrew - Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager
- Gillian Anderson - The X Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases
- Kim Delaney - New York Cops - NYPD Blue
- Julianna Margulies - Emergency Room - The emergency room
- Ally Walker - Profiler
Best Actor in a Series (Comedy / Musical)
- Tim Allen - Look who's hammering there
- Drew Carey - Drew Carey Show
- Michael J. Fox - Chaos City
- Garry Shandling - The Larry Sanders Show
Best Actress in a Series (Comedy / Musical)
Tracey Ullman - Tracey Takes On ...
- Jane Curtin - Behind the moon just left
- Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen
- Helen Hunt - Crazy About You
- Brooke Shields - Susan
Best Actor in a Miniseries or a TV Movie
- Armand Assante - The Adventures of Odysseus
- Gabriel Byrne - In the wake of greed
- Sidney Poitier - Mandela and De Klerk - A turning point
- Ving Rhames - Don King: Only in America
Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for TV
Jennifer Beals - The Twilight of the Golds Alfre Woodard - Miss Evers' Boys
- Glenn Close - At dusk
- Greta Scacchi - The Adventures of Odysseus
- Meryl Streep - ... First Do No Harm
Best supporting actor
Vondie Curtis-Hall - Don King: Only in America
- Jason Alexander - Cinderella
- Joe Don Baker - Wallace
- Michael Caine - Mandela and De Klerk - turning point
- Ossie Davis - Miss Evers' Boys
The best supporting actress
Ellen Barkin - Like a bird without wings
- Louise Fletcher - Breast Men
- Bernadette Peters - Cinderella
- Mimi Rogers - In the wake of greed
- Mare Winningham - Wallace
Web links
- International Press Academy: Satellite Awards 1998 (English)
- The 2nd Satellite Awards in the IMDb
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 2nd Satellite Awards in the IMDb ( Version of February 21, 2005 ( Memento of February 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ Overview of the Satellite Awards in the IMDb ( Version of March 18, 2005 ( Memento of March 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ))