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National Board of Review Awards:
The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review.
| Best Picture | Shine |
| Best Actor | Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire |
| Best Actress | Frances McDormand, Fargo |
| Best Supporting Actor | Edward Norton, Primal Fear, Everyone Says I Love You and The People vs. Larry Flynt |
| Best Supporting Actresses | Kristin Scott Thomas and Juliette Binoche, The English Patient |
| Best Director | Joel Coen, Fargo |
| Best Foreign Film | Ridicule |
| Best Documentary | Paradise Lost |
| Best Television Documentary | Wild Bill |
| Outstanding Achievement in Ensemble Performance | The First Wives Club |
| Career Achievement Award | Gena Rowlands |
| Special Achievement in Filmmaking | Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade |
| Best Breakthrough Performer | Renee Zellweger, Jerry Maguire |
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