Films: 1997

1. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)

2. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)

3. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)

4. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)

5. Lost Highway (David Lynch)

6. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)

7. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)

8. The Game (David Fincher)

9. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)

10. Con Air (Simon West)

11. Cop Land (James Mangold)

12. Waiting For Guffman (Christopher Guest)

13. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)

14. Mimic (Guillermo del Toro)

15. Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson)

16. Gummo (Harmony Korine)

17. Men In Black (Barry Sonnenfeld)

18. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)

19. Breakdown (Jonathan Moscow)

20. Affliction (Paul Schrader)

21. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)

22. Contact (Robert Zemeckis)

23. Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)

24. Mr. Jealousy (Noah Baumbach)

25. Anaconda (Luis Llosa)

26. Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman)

27. Private Parts (Betty Thomas)

28. The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)

29. Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)

30. Kundun (Martin Scorsese)

31. 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee)

32. SubUrbia (Richard Linklater)

33. Henry Fool (Hal Hartly)

34. As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks)

35. Titanic (James Cameron)

36. I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jim Gillespie)

37. Hoodlum (Bill Duke)

38. Alien Resurrection (Jean Pierre-Jeunet)

39. The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola)

40. The Boxer (Jim Sheridan)

41. Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (David Mirkin)

42. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)

43. Lolita (Adrian Lyne)

44. GI Jane (Ridley Scott)

45. U Turn (Oliver Stone)

46. Kiss the Girls (Gary Fleder)

47. Inventing the Abbotts (Pat O‘Connor)

48. Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)

49. Gross Pointe Blank (George Armitage)

50. Eye's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons)

51. Soul Food (George Tillman Jr.)

52. A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle)

53. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)

54. The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)

55. Female Perversions (Susan Streitfeld)

56. Dante's Peak (Roger Donaldson)

57. Liar Liar (Tom Shadyac)

58. Selena (Gregory Nava)

59. Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez)

60. My Best Friend's Wedding (PJ Hogan)

61. The Big One (Michael Moore)

62. Prefontaine (Steve James)

63. Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood)

64. The Devil's Own (Alan J. Pakula)

65. Highball (Noah Baumbach)

BEST ACTOR: Homayoun Ershadi in Taste of Cherry

BEST DIRECTOR: PT Anderson for Boogie Nights

BEST SCREENPLAY: Andrew Niccol for Gattaca