Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f All 1997 Film Awards List of winners and nominees for all of the major movie awards from 1997! Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners! Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury The Sweet Hereafter Atom Egoyan Amazon Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize Western Manuel Poirier Amazon Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Taste of Cherry Abbas Kiarostami Amazon Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or The Eel Shôhei Imamura Amazon Critics Choice Awards – Best Picture Fargo Amazon DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film The English Patient Anthony Minghella Amazon Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature Fargo Ethan Coen Amazon Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Evita Amazon Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Drama The English Patient Amazon Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language Kolya Amazon LAFCA Award – Best Foreign Film La promesse Jean-Pierre Dardenne Amazon LAFCA Award – Best Picture L.A. Confidential Amazon National Board of Review – Best Film L.A. Confidential Amazon New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Film L.A. Confidential Amazon New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Foreign Language Film Ponette Amazon Academy Awards – Best Picture The English Patient Saul Zaentz Amazon Academy Awards – International Feature Film Kolya null Amazon PGA Award – Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures The English Patient Saul Zaentz Amazon International Film Festival Rotterdam – Audience Award Shine Scott Hicks Amazon Screen Actors Guild Awards – Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The Birdcage Robin Williams Amazon Screen Actors Guild Awards – Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Seinfeld Jason Alexander Amazon Screen Actors Guild Awards – Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series ER George Clooney Amazon The Satellite Awards – Best Ensemble – Motion Picture Boogie Nights Amazon The Satellite Awards – Best Miniseries and Limited Series Don King: Only in America Amazon The Satellite Awards – Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical As Good as It Gets James L. Brooks Amazon The Satellite Awards – Best Motion Picture – Drama Titanic James Cameron Amazon The Satellite Awards – Best Motion Picture – International Film Shall We Dance? Masayuki Suo Amazon The Satellite Awards – Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical Frasier Amazon The Satellite Awards – Best Television Series – Drama NYPD Blue Amazon Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film Comrades, Almost a Love Story Amazon Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic Hurricane Streets Morgan J. Freeman Amazon Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic Love Jones Theodore Witcher Amazon Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic Sunday Jonathan Nossiter Amazon Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Fireworks Takeshi Kitano Amazon Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize Hardboiled Egg Paolo Virzì Amazon Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton Amazon Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Original Screenplay Fargo Joel Coen Amazon