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"Ryan" wasn't the only World War II epic to score with the circle: The Gotham crix voted Terrence Malick best director for "The Thin Red Line," a 20th Century Fox release.
Nick Nolte received the best actor award for his performance as a divorced man whose life careens out of control in Lions Gate's "Affliction," the bigscreen adaptation of the Russell Banks novel directed by Paul Schrader.
Cameron Diaz captured actress honors for her role in the Farrelly brothers comedy "There's Something About Mary" from Fox.
The supporting actor award went to Bill Murray for Buena Vista's boys school tale "Rushmore."
"Friends" cast member Lisa Kudrow garnered the supporting actress award for Sony Pictures Classics' "The Opposite of Sex."
Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard won the screenplay honor for Miramax's "Shakespeare in Love."
October's "The Celebration," Thomas Vinterberg's Danish-language pic about a patriarch's birthday party, was voted best foreign film.
October and its majority-owned parent Universal Pictures also won a special award for the newly edited version of Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil."
Lions Gate's "Love and Death on Long Island," directed by Richard Kwietniowski, was cited by the Gotham critics as best first film.
Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack's documentary about a Louisiana prison, "The Farm," was named best non-fiction film.
The circle's best picture choice didn't mirror the preference of the other New York-based ratings org. Last week, the Gotham-based Natl. Board of Review of Motion Pictures named Lions Gate's "Gods and Monsters" best picture.
The circle's annual awards dinner will take place Jan. 10 at Windows on the World at the World Trade Center in Manhattan. The circle's membership comprises critics from major New York-based newspapers and magazines.
The awards were announced by 1998 New York Film Critics Circle chairman Godfrey Cheshire, who writes for the New York Press and Daily Variety, and by vice chairman Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly.
