I'm using AMPAS' eligibility policy, rendering some films which made their Toronto bow in 1998 ineligible (ie. La Promesse) while qualifying others which I'd already seen earlier (ie. The Hanging Garden [97], etc.)

1998 films which played theatres but did not qualify under AMPAS eligibility rules are listed at the bottom of this page.

****
Buffalo 66 (d: Vincent Gallo) [A]
Happiness (d: Todd Solondz) [A]
He Got Game (d: Spike Lee) [A]
Life Is Beautiful (d: Roberto Benigni) [A]
Pleasantville (d: Gary Ross) [A]
Shakespeare In Love (d: John Madden) [A]
A Simple Plan (d: Sam Raimi) [A]
The Thin Red Line (d: Terrence Malick) [A]
The Truman Show (d: Peter Weir) [A]

*** ½
Affliction (d: Paul Schrader) [A-]
The Celebration (d: Thomas Vinterberg) [A-]
Elizabeth (d: Shekhar Kapur) [A-]
The Horse Whisperer (d: Robert Redford) [A-]
The Mask Of Zorro (d: Martin Campbell) [A-]
Mulan (d: Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft) [A-]
Rushmore (d: Wes Anderson) [A-]
Saving Private Ryan (d: Steven Spielberg) [A-]

***
Apt Pupil (d: Bryan Singer) [B]
Beloved (d: Jonathan Demme) [B]
Celebrity (d: Woody Allen) [B]
City Of Angels (d: Brad Silberling) [B+]
Dancing At Lughnasa (d: Pat O'Connor) [B]
Enemy Of The State (d: Tony Scott) [B+]
High Art (d: Lisa Cholodenko) [B+]
Little Voice (d: Mark Herman) [B+]
Lolita (d: Adrian Lyne) [B]
Love And Death On Long Island (d: Richard Kwietniowski) [B+]
Men With Guns (d: John Sayles) [B+]
Les Misérables (d: Bille August) [B+]
Mr. Jealousy (d: Noah Baumbach) [B]
Nil By Mouth (d: Gary Oldman) [B+]
One True Thing (d: Carl Franklin) [B]
Out Of Sight (d: Steven Soderbergh) [B+]
Pi (d: Darren Aronofsky) [B]
Primary Colors (d: Mike Nichols) [B]
Regeneration (d: Gillies MacKinnon) [B]
Ronin (d: John Frankenheimer) [B+]
Rush Hour (d: Brett Ratner) [B]
Seventh Heaven (Le Septieme Ciel) (d: Benoit Jacquot) [B]
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (d: James Ivory) [B+]
There's Something About Mary (d: Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly) [B]
Two Girls And A Guy (d: James Toback) [B]
Your Friends & Neighbours (d: Neil LaBute) [B]

** ½
American History X (d: Tony Kaye) [B-]
Babe: Pig In The City (d: George Miller) [B-]
The Butcher Boy (d: Neil Jordan) [B-]
Bulworth (d: Warren Beatty) [C+]
Can't Hardly Wait (d: Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont) [B-]
A Civil Action (d: Steven Zaillian) [B-]
Cube (d: Vincenzo Natali) [C+]
Dangerous Beauty (d: Marshall Herskovitz) [C+]
Dark City (d: Alex Proyas) [C+]
The Faculty (d: Robert Rodriguez) [B-]
The Gingerbread Man (d: Robert Altman) [B-]
Gods And Monsters (d: Bill Condon) [C+]
Godzilla (d: Roland Emmerich) [B-]
Halloween: H20 - Twenty Years Later (d: Steve Miner) [C+]
The Hanging Garden (d: Thom Fitzgerald) [C+]
Kurt And Courtney (d: Nick Broomfield) [B-]
The Last Days Of Disco (d: Whit Stillman) [B-]
The Leading Man (d: John Duigan) [B-]
Living Out Loud (d: Richard LaGravenese) [B-]
Mrs Dalloway (d: Marleen Gorris) [C+]
The Negotiator (d: F. Gary Gray) [B-]
Next Stop Wonderland (d: Brad Anderson) [B-]
Nightwatch (d: Ole Bornedal) [C+]
The Opposite Of Sex (d: Don Roos) [B-]
Palmetto (d: Volker Schlondorff) [B-]
The Parent Trap (d: Nancy Meyers) [B-]
Permanent Midnight (d: David Veloz) [C+]
Psycho (d: Gus Van Sant) [C+]
The Real Blonde (d: Tom DiCillo) [B-]
Return To Paradise (d: Joseph Ruben) [B-]
Rounders (d: John Dahl) [C+]
Shooting Fish (d: Stefan Schwartz) [C+]
Slam (d: Marc Levin) [B-]
Slums Of Beverly Hills (d: Tamara Jenkins) [C+]
The Spanish Prisoner (d: David Mamet) [B-]
Waking Ned Devine (d: Kirk Jones) [B-]
Whatever (d: Susan Skoog) [B-]
Wild Things (d: John McNaughton) [B-]
The X-Files (d: Rob Bowman) [B-]
You've Got Mail (d: Nora Ephron) [B-]
Zero Effect (d: Jake Kasdan) [C+]

**
54 (d: Mark Christopher) [C]
Armageddon (d: Michael Bay) [C]
The Big Lebowski (d: Joel Coen) [C]
Blade (d: Stephen Norrington) [C]
Central Station (d: Walter Salles) [C]
Chinese Box (d: Wayne Wang) [C]
Clockwatchers (d: Jill Sprecher) [C]
Deep Impact (d: Mimi Leder) [C]
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (d: Terry Gilliam) [C]
Hilary And Jackie (d: Anand Tucker) [C]
Hurlyburly (d: Anthony Drazan) [C]
John Carpenter's Vampires (d: John Carpenter) [C]
Lethal Weapon 4 (d: Richard Donner) [C]
Live Flesh (Carne Tremula) (d: Pedro Almodovar) [C]
Marie Baie Des Anges (d: Manuel Pradal) [C-]
Mother And Son (d: Aleksandr Sokurov) [C-]
Niagara Niagara (d: Bob Gosse) [C-]
The Object Of My Affection (d: Nicholas Hytner) [C]
Pecker (d: John Waters) [C]
A Perfect Murder (d: Andrew Davis) [C-]
Post Coitum (d: Brigitte Rouan) [C-]
The Siege (d: Edward Zwick) [C]
Six Days, Seven Nights (d: Ivan Reitman) [C]
Sliding Doors (d: Peter Howitt) [C]
Snake Eyes (d: Brian DePalma) [C]
Stepmom (d: Chris Columbus) [C-]
Swept From The Sea (d: Beeban Kidron) [C]
Twilight (d: Robert Benton) [C]
Urban Legend (d: Jamie Blanks) [C-]
Velvet Goldmine (d: Todd Haynes) [C]
What Dreams May Come (d: Vincent Ward) [C]

* ½
The Avengers (d: Jeremiah Chechik) [D]
Disturbing Behavior (d: David Nutter) [D+]
illtown (d: Nick Gomez) [D+]
One Tough Cop (d: Bruno Barreto) [D+]
Species II (d: Peter Medak) [D+]
Very Bad Things (d: Peter Berg) [D+]

*
The Ugly (d: Scott Reynolds) [D-]

Other 1998 Films
Four Days In September (d: Bruno Barreto) [A-]
Marquise (d: Vera Belmont) [B+]
The Taste Of Cherry (d: Abbas Kiarostami) [B+]
A Summer's Tale (Conte D'Ete) (d: Eric Rohmer) [B]
The Eel (Unagi) (d: Shohei Inamura) [B]
Junk Mail (d: Pal Sletaune) [B]
TwentyFourSeven (d: Shane Meadows) [B]
The Big One (d: Michael Moore) [B-]
Full Tilt Boogie (d: Sarah Kelly) [B-]
Go Now (d: Michael Winterbottom) [C+]
Nô (d: Robert Lepage) [C+]
Last Night (d: Don McKellar) [C]
Kitchen Party (d: Gary Burns)
Shattered Image (d: Raoul Ruiz) [D+]
Strike! (d: Sarah Kernochan) [D+]
Drive, She Said (d: Mina Shum) [D]

Alex Fung (aw220@freenet.carleton.ca)

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