In 1998 there were many significant films which were released, including Shakespeare in Love, Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, American History X, The Truman Show, Primary Colors, Rushmore, Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary, The Big Lebowski, and Terrence Malick's directorial return in The Thin Red Line.

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Highest-grossing films

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The top 10 films released in 1998 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]

Highest-grossing films of 1998
Rank Title Distributor Worldwide gross
1 Armageddon Buena Vista $553,709,788
2 Saving Private Ryan DreamWorks / Paramount $481,840,909
3 Godzilla Sony Pictures / TriStar $379,014,294
4 There's Something About Mary 20th Century Fox $369,884,651
5 A Bug's Life Buena Vista $363,398,565
6 Deep Impact Paramount / DreamWorks $349,464,664
7 Mulan Buena Vista $304,320,254
8 Dr. Dolittle 20th Century Fox $294,456,605
9 Shakespeare in Love Miramax / Universal $289,317,794
10 Lethal Weapon 4 Warner Bros. $285,444,603

Box office records

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  • Saving Private Ryan grossed $482 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing World War II film until it was surpassed by Dunkirk (2017). However, adjusting for 2017 monetary inflation, Saving Private Ryan grossed $718 million.
  • Blade became the top-grossing film based on a Marvel Comics character, grossing $131.2 million worldwide at the time of its release.
  • The Star Trek franchise became the seventh film franchise to gross $1 billion with the release of Star Trek: Insurrection.[2]

Events

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  • March 1 – Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Twenty days later, the film won eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
  • May 8 and July 1 – 1998 saw the release of two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, Armageddon and Deep Impact which both became box office success, with Armageddon becoming the most popular out of the two and was also the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide.
  • July 24 – Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released and received critical acclaim leading it to be the top grossing domestic film of 1998. Saving Private Ryan won five Academy Awards including Best Director, the film was lauded as an influential landmark in the war and action film genres, primarily due to its use of desaturated colors, hand-held cameras, and tight angles.
  • August 21 – Blade, based on the character of the same name, grossed over $131.2 million worldwide. Its success would help stage future film adaptations of Marvel Comics.
  • September 19 – Antz, DreamWorks' first animated feature film, that premiered at the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival.
  • December 25, Filmmaker Terrence Malick, returned after a twenty-year hiatus with The Thin Red Line.

Awards

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Category/Organization 56th Golden Globe Awards
January 24, 1999
4th Critics Choice Awards
January 1999
Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards 71st Academy Awards
March 21, 1999
52nd BAFTA Awards
April 11, 1999
Drama Musical or Comedy
Best Film Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare in Love Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare in Love
Best Director Steven Spielberg
Saving Private Ryan
Peter Weir
The Truman Show
Best Actor Jim Carrey
The Truman Show
Michael Caine
Little Voice
Ian McKellen
Gods and Monsters
Apt Pupil
Roberto Benigni
Life Is Beautiful
Best Actress Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth
Gwyneth Paltrow
Shakespeare in Love
Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth
Gwyneth Paltrow
Shakespeare in Love
Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth
Best Supporting Actor Ed Harris
The Truman Show
Billy Bob Thornton
A Simple Plan
Robert Duvall
A Civil Action
James Coburn
Affliction
Geoffrey Rush
Shakespeare in Love
Best Supporting Actress Lynn Redgrave
Gods and Monsters
Kathy Bates
Primary Colors
Joan Allen
Pleasantville
Kathy Bates
Primary Colors
Judi Dench
Shakespeare in Love
Best Screenplay, Adapted Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Shakespeare in Love
Scott B. Smith
A Simple Plan
Scott Frank
Out of Sight
Bill Condon
Gods and Monsters
Elaine May
Primary Colors
Best Screenplay, Original Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Shakespeare in Love
Andrew Niccol
The Truman Show
Best Animated Film A Bug's Life / The Prince of Egypt (TIE)
Best Original Score The Truman Show
Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass
Saving Private Ryan
John Williams
N/A Life Is Beautiful
Nicola Piovani
Elizabeth
David Hirschfelder
Best Original Song "The Prayer"
Quest for Camelot
"When You Believe"
The Prince of Egypt
N/A "When You Believe"
The Prince of Egypt
N/A
Best Foreign Language Film Central Station Life Is Beautiful N/A Life Is Beautiful Central Station

1998 films

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By country/region

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By genre/medium

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Births

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Deaths

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Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 4 Mae Questel 89 US Actress
5 Sonny Bono 62 US Singer, Actor
6 Walt Barnes 79 US Actor
6 Murray Salem 47 US Actor, Screenwriter
7 Jacqueline DeWit 85 US Actress
7 Dorothy Wilson 88 US Actress
16 Lorenzo Mongiardino 81 Italy Production Designer
24 Jack Lord 77 US Actor
26 Ethelreda Leopold 83 US Actress
28 Jim Bohan 52 US Actor
30 Ferdy Mayne 81 Germany Actor
February 1 Jack T. Collis 75 US Art Director, Production Designer
2 Duilio Del Prete 59 Italy Actor
3 Davy Kaye 81 UK Actor
5 Douglas Gamley 73 Australia Composer, Conductor
15 George White 86 US Film Editor
17 Felix Nelson 84 US Actor
17 Sheila Raynor 91 UK Actor
18 James Villiers 67 UK Actor
21 John Nicolella 52 US Director, Producer
23 Chuck Hayward 89 US Actor, Stuntman
24 Henny Youngman 91 UK Comedian, Actor
26 James Algar 75 US Director, Producer, Animator
27 J. T. Walsh 54 US Actor
March 5 Donald Woods 91 Canada Actor
10 Lloyd Bridges 85 US Actor
17 Helen Westcott 70 US Actress
20 Beverley Cross 66 UK Screenwriter
25 Daniel Massey 64 UK Actor
30 Ramsay Ames 79 US Actress
April 1 Gene Evans 75 US Actor
1 Lucille Norman 76 US Singer, Actress
3 Charles Lang 96 US Cinematographer
4 Kay Hughes 84 US Actress
11 Rodney Harvey 30 US Actor
21 Peter Lind Hayes 82 US Actor
22 Marvin Worth 72 US Producer
24 Leslie Stevens 74 US Screenwriter, Director
28 Jerome Bixby 75 US Screenwriter
28 Dorothy Lovett 83 US Actress
29 Mary Castle 67 US Actress
May 2 Maidie Norman 85 US Actress
3 Gene Raymond 89 US Actor
9 Alice Faye 83 US Actress, Singer
9 Nat Perrin 93 US Screenwriter, Director
11 Gene Fowler Jr. 80 US Film Editor
14 Frank Sinatra 82 US Singer, Actor
15 Linwood G. Dunn 93 US Visual Effects Artist
20 Wolf Mankowitz 73 UK Screenwriter
21 Douglas Fowley 86 US Actor
22 John Derek 71 US Actor, Director
28 Phil Hartman 49 US Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter
June 1 Darwin Joston 60 US Actor
2 Dorothy Stickney 101 US Actress
4 Josephine Hutchinson 94 US Actress
5 Jeanette Nolan 85 US Actress
12 Theresa Merritt 73 US Actress
18 Charles Korvin 90 Slovakia Actor
23 Kurt Kren 69 Austria Director
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  • 10/65: Selbstverstümmelung
23 Maureen O'Sullivan 87 Ireland Actress
24 Henry G. Saperstein 80 US Producer
July 1 Claire Kelly 64 US Actress
4 Gregg Burge 40 US Actor
6 Roy Rogers 86 US Actor, Singer
10 William Preston 76 US Actor
16 Leigh Brown 59 US Screenwriter
17 Joseph Maher 64 Ireland Actor
19 Betty Marsden 79 UK Actress
21 Robert Young 91 US Actor
27 Binnie Barnes 95 UK Actress
28 Lenny McLean 49 UK Actor
29 Jerome Robbins 79 US Director, Choreographer West Side Story
29 O. Z. Whitehead 87 US Actor
August 1 Eva Bartok 71 Hungary Actress
7 Bob Wyman 66 US Film Editor
11 Derek Newark 65 UK Actor
15 Marc Akerstream 44 Canada Stuntman, Actor
16 Phil Leeds 82 US Actor
18 Persis Khambatta 49 India Actress
24 E. G. Marshall 84 US Actor
24 Gene Page 58 US Composer
26 Wade Dominguez 32 US Actor
26 Penny Edwards 70 US Actress
September 2 Fernando Carrere 87 Mexico Art Director
6 Akira Kurosawa 88 Japan Director, Screenwriter
6 Elaine Shepard 85 US Actress
8 Leonid Kinskey 95 Russia Actor
11 Dane Clark 86 US Actor
19 Patricia Hayes 88 UK Actress
21 Clara Calamai 89 Italy Actress
22 John Garrie 75 UK Actor
30 Marius Goring 86 UK Actor
30 Stephen Pearlman 63 US Actor
October 2 Gene Autry 91 US Actor, Singer
3 George Davis 84 US Art Director
3 Roddy McDowall 70 UK Actor
8 Gigi Reder 70 Italy Actor
11 Richard Denning 84 US Actor
17 Joan Hickson 92 UK Actress
22 Eric Ambler 89 UK Screenwriter
23 Christopher Gable 58 UK Actor
24 Dennis Ayling 81 UK Visual Effects Artist Alien
26 Rick Dior 51 US Sound Engineer
27 Rosamund John 85 UK Actress
28 James Goldman 71 US Screenwriter
November 2 Tommy Duggan 89 UK Actor
3 Martha O'Driscoll 76 US Actress
4 Vincent Winter 50 UK Actor, Production Manager
5 Momoko Kōchi 66 Japan Actress
8 Jean Marais 84 France Actor, Director
9 Ursula Reit 84 Germany Actress Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
13 Valerie Hobson 81 UK Actress
17 Dick O'Neill 70 US Actor
17 Esther Rolle 78 US Actress
19 Alan J. Pakula 70 US Director, Producer, Screenwriter
22 Nicky Blair 72 US Actor
25 Enrico Sabbatini 66 Italy Costume Designer
25 Flip Wilson 64 US Comedian, Actor
30 Ruth Clifford 98 US Actress
December 1 Freddie Young 96 UK Cinematographer
7 John Addison 78 UK Composer
8 John Veitch 78 US Producer, Executive
13 Lew Grade 91 UK Producer
13 Ariadna Welter 68 Mexico Actress
14 Norman Fell 74 US Actor
17 John Robert Lloyd 78 US Production Designer
20 Irene Hervey 89 US Actress
21 Roger Avon 84 UK Actor
23 David Manners 98 Canada Actor
25 Richard Paul 58 US Actor
26 Hurd Hatfield 81 US Actor
28 William Frankfather 54 US Actor
29 Don Taylor 81 US Actor, Director

Film debuts

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References

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  1. ^ "1998 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  2. ^ "Star Trek Franchise Box Office History". The Numbers. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
  3. ^ "Felix Nelson Filmography". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
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