The 64th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 1998, were announced on 16 December 1998 and given on 10 January 1999.^[1][2][3][4]

Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Nick Nolte - Affliction
  • Runners-up: Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters and Brendan Gleeson - The General
• Best Actress:
  • Cameron Diaz - There's Something About Mary
  • Runners-up: Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station (Central do Brasil) and Renée Zellweger - One True Thing and A Price Above Rubies
• Best Cinematography:
  • John Toll - The Thin Red Line
• Best Director:
  • Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
  • Runners-up: Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan and Paul Schrader - Affliction
• Best Film:
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Runners-up: Affliction and Happiness
• Best First Film:
  • Richard Kwietniowski - Love and Death on Long Island
  • Runners-up: Don Roos - The Opposite of Sex and Vincent Gallo - Buffalo '66
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • The Celebration (Festen) • Denmark/Sweden
  • Runners-up: Central Station (Central do Brasil) • Brazil/France and Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass) • Iran
• Best Non-Fiction Film:
  • The Farm: Angola, USA
  • Runner-up: The Cruise
• Best Screenplay:
  • Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard - Shakespeare in Love
  • Runners-up: Todd Solondz - Happiness and Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson - Rushmore
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Bill Murray - Rushmore
  • Runner-up: Dylan Baker - Happiness
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Lisa Kudrow - The Opposite of Sex
  • Runner-up: Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
• Special Award:
  • Rick Schmidlin - Touch of Evil (for the reworked version)