Online Film Critics Society Awards 1997

1st Online Film Critics Society Awards
Presented on	January 11, 1998
Highlights
Best Picture	L.A. Confidential

The 1st Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 1997, were given on 11 January 1998.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture L.A. Confidential The Sweet Hereafter Titanic	Best Director James Cameron — Titanic Curtis Hanson — L.A. Confidential Paul Thomas Anderson — Boogie Nights
Best Actor Jack Nicholson — As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall Ian Holm — The Sweet Hereafter as Mitchell Stephens Peter Fonda — Ulee's Gold as Ulee Jackson	Best Actress Judi Dench — Mrs Brown as Queen Victoria Helena Bonham Carter — The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy Kate Winslet — Titanic as Rose DeWitt Bukater
Best Supporting Actor Burt Reynolds — Boogie Nights as Jack Horner Anthony Hopkins — Amistad as John Quincy Adams Rupert Everett — My Best Friend's Wedding as George Downes	Best Supporting Actress Gloria Stuart — Titanic as Rose Dowson Calvert Joan Cusack — Grosse Pointe Blank as Marcella Julianne Moore — The Myth of Fingerprints as Mia
Best Screenplay L.A. Confidential — Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson Boogie Nights — Paul Thomas Anderson Good Will Hunting — Ben Affleck and Matt Damon	Best Foreign Language Film Shall We Dance? • Japan — Masayuki Suo La Promesse • Belgium — Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne Ponette • France — Jacques Doillon
Best Documentary Film 4 Little Girls — Spike Lee Fast, Cheap & Out of Control — Errol Morris Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist — Kirby Dick