Patrick Stoner welcomes your questions about movies and the people who make them. Send your questions to pstoner@whyy.org. Here's the current question and answer:
Q: Who won in the Broadcast Film Critics' Association Awards for 1997? A: Here are all but two. The following are the 1997 CRITICS' CHOICE Awards winners, minus the Best Picture Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award (which will be announced at the ceremony in Los Angeles on January 19, 1998 at the Hotel Sofitel in Los Angeles, produced by Calm Down Productions):
The 123 members of the BFCA are journalists who review movies on television and radio across the country, as well as on the Internet. As a founding member of the nation's largest critics group, I had the honor of writing the tribute to Helena Bonham Carter for her win as Best Actress in this latest Awards Program.
- Jack Nicholson, Helena Bonham Carter and Matt Damon triumphed in the voting for the Broadcast Film Critics Association's "Critics' Choice" awards.
- Nicholson was named Best Actor by the BFCA for his performance in AS GOOD AS IT GETS, with Carter earning Best Actress honors in THE WINGS OF THE DOVE.
- Damon was the only double winner, cited as Breakthrough Performer and for Best Original Screenplay, co-written with Ben Affleck, for GOOD WILL HUNTING.
- James Cameron was selected as Best Director for TITANIC which was also selected by the BFCA as one of 1997's Top Ten Films. The full Top Ten, in alphabetical order, are: AMISTAD, AS GOOD AS IT GETS, BOOGIE NIGHTS, DONNIE BRASCO, THE FULL MONTY, GOOD WILL HUNTING, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, TITANIC, WAG THE DOG, WINGS OF THE DOVE.
- Other winners announced this week include Anthony Hopkins as Best Supporting Actor in AMISTAD, Joan Cusack as Best Supporting Actress in IN & OUT, Jurnee Smollett as Best Child Performance in EVE'S BAYOU, and Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.
- In the special films categories, ANASTASIA was named Best Family Film, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS won as Best Documentary, and SHALL WE DANCE is the BFCA's Best Foreign Film choice.
- For the first time this year, the BFCA picked a Best Picture Made for Television. The winner was "Don King: Only In America."
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