1997 (70th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1997 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets, Gracie Films Production; TriStar.

Actress in a Leading Role

Helen Hunt in As Good as It Gets, Gracie Films Production; TriStar.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting, Be Gentlemen Production; Miramax Films.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Kim Basinger in L. A. Confidential, Arnon Milchan/David L. Wolper Production; Warner Bros.

Directing

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. James Cameron.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Art direction by Peter Lamont; set decoration by Michael Ford.

Cinematography

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Russell Carpenter.

Costume Design

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Deborah L. Scott.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Long Way Home, Moriah Films Production at the Simon Wiesenthal Center; Seventh Art. Rabbi Marvin Hier and Richard Trank.

(Short Subject)

A Story of Healing, Dewey-Obenchain Films Production. Donna Dewey and Carol Pasternak.

Film Editing

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Conrad Buff, James Cameron and Richard A. Harris.

Foreign Language Film

Character, First Floor Features Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Netherlands, Belgium)

Makeup

Men in Black, Amblin Entertainment Production; Columbia. Rick Baker and David LeRoy Anderson.

Music

(Original Dramatic Score)

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. James Horner.

(Original Musical or Comedy Score)

The Full Monty, Redwave Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (UK, USA) Anne Dudley.

(Original Song)

My Heart Will Go On from Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Music by James Horner; lyric by Will Jennings.

Short Films

(Animated)

Geri’s Game, Pixar Animation Studios Production. Jan Pinkava.

(Live Action)

Visas and Virtue, Cedar Grove Production. Chris Tashima and Chris Donahue.

Sound

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers and Mark Ulano.

Sound Effects Editing

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes.

Visual Effects

Titanic, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher and Michael Kanfer.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

L. A. Confidential, Arnon Milchan/David L. Wolper Production; Warner Bros. Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Good Will Hunting, Be Gentlemen Production; Miramax Films. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

Honorary Award

To Stanley Donen in appreciation of a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation. [ [Statuette]]

To Pete Clark, in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Don Iwerks

Scientific and Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Gunnar P. Michelson for the engineering and development of an improved, electronic, high-speed, precision light valve for use in motion picture printing machines.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To William Kovacs for his creative leadership and Roy Hall for his principal engineering efforts that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system.

To John Gibson, Rob Krieger, Milan Novacek, Glen Ozymok and Dave Springer for the development of the geometric modeling component of the Alias PowerAnimator System.

To Dominique Boisvert, Réjean Gagné, Daniel Langlois and Richard Laperrière for the development of the “Actor” animation component of the Softimage computer animation system.

To Eben Ostby, William Reeves, Samuel J. Leffler and Tom Duff for the development of the Marionette Three-Dimensional Computer Animation System.

To Craig W. Reynolds for his pioneering contributions to the development of three-dimensional computer animation for motion picture production.

To Richard Shoup, Alvy Ray Smith and Thomas Porter for their pioneering efforts in the development of digital paint systems used in motion picture production.

To Kirk Handley, Ray Meluch, Scott Robinson, Wilson H. Allen and John Neary for the design, development and implementation of the Dolby CP500 Digital Cinema Processor.

To Joel W. Johnson of the O’Connor Laboratories for the unique design improvement in fluid head counter-balancing techniques as used in their Model 2575.

To Al Jensen, Chuck Headley, Jean Messner and Hazem Nabulsi of CEI Technology for the production of a self-contained, flicker-free, Color Video-Assist Camera.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Clark F. Crites for the design and development of the Christie ELF 1-C Endless Loop Film Transport and Storage System.

To Dan Leimeter and Robert Weitz for the development and implementation of a Portable Adjustment Tool for T-Style Slit Lens Assemblies.

To Philip C. Cory for the design and development of the Special Effects Spark Generator.

To James M. Reilly, Douglas W. Nishimura and Monique C. Fischer of the Rochester Institute of Technology for the creation of A-D Strips, a diagnostic tool for the detection of the presence of vinegar syndrome in processed acetate-based motion picture film.

To Jim Frazier, for the design concept, and Iain Neil and Rick Gelbard for the further design and development of the Panavision/Frazier Lens System for motion picture photography.

To James F. Foley, Charles E. Converse and F. Edward Gardner of UCISCO; and to Robert W. Stoker, Jr. and Matt Sweeney for the development and realization of Liquid Synthetic Air.

To Jack Cashin, Roger Hibbard and Larry Jacobson for the design, development and implementation of a projection system analyzer.

To Richard Chuang, Glenn Entis and Carl Rosendahl for the concept and architecture of the Pacific Data Images (PDI) Animation System.

To Greg Hermanovic, Kim Davidson, Mark Elendt and Paul H. Breslin for the development of the procedural modeling and animation components of the Prisms software package.

To James J. Keating, Michael Wahrman and Richard Hollander for their contributions that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system.