San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 1997

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2nd SDFCS Awards

December 18, 1997

Best Film:
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The 2nd San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, given by the San Diego Film Critics Society on 18 December 1997, honored the best in film for 1997.

The San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) is an organization of film reviewers from San Diego-based publications.

The year 1997 in film involved many significant films, including Titanic, and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks.

Winners

Jack Nicholson American actor, film director, producer, and writer

John Joseph Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker who has performed for over sixty years. He is known for playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance, and dark portrayals of anti-heroes and villainous characters. In many of his films, he has played the "eternal outsider, the sardonic drifter", someone who rebels against the social structure.

<i>As Good as It Gets</i> 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks. The movie stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and Brooks. The paintings were created for the film by New York artist Billy Sullivan.

Pam Grier actress from the United States

Pamela Suzette Grier is an American actress. Grier became known in the early 1970s for starring in a string of 1970s women in prison and blaxploitation films such as The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Sheba, Baby. She starred in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 crime film Jackie Brown, for which she received a Satellite Award and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG Award.

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