Movies released in 1998| 42 Up | Michael Apted |
| 54 | Mark Christopher |
| The Acid House | Paul McGuigan |
| The Advanced Guard | Peter Geiger |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | John Henderson |
| American Dragons | Ralph Hemecker |
| American History X | Tony Kaye |
| Andromedia | Takashi Miike |
| Antz | Tim Johnson, Eric Darnell |
| Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer |
| Armageddon | Michael Bay |
| Atomic Dog | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Babe: Pig in the City | George Miller |
| Barney's Great Adventure | Steve Gomer |
| BASEketball | David Zucker |
| Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | Boyd Kirkland |
| Beast Cops | Dante Lam, Gordon Chan |
| Behind the Planet of the Apes | David Comtois, Kevin Burns |
| The Big Lebowski | Joel Coen |
| The Bird People in China | Takashi Miike |
| Blade | Stephen Norrington |
| Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane | Joe Carnahan |
| Blues Brothers 2000 | John Landis |
| Body Count | Robert Patton-Spruill |
| The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars | Robert C. Ramirez |
| Bride of Chucky | Ronny Yu |
| Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo |
| A Bug's Life | John Lasseter |
| Can't Hardly Wait | Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan |
| The Christmas Wish | Ian Barry |
| Contract Killer | Stephen Tung Wai |
| Curtain Call | Peter Yates |
| Dark City | Alex Proyas |
| The Decline of Western Civilization Part III | Penelope Spheeris |
| Deep Impact | Mimi Leder |
| Deep Rising | Stephen Sommers |
| The Dentist 2 | Brian Yuzna |
| Detonator | Garrett Clancy |
| The Dimension Travelers | Kazuya Konaka |
| Dirty Work | Bob Saget |
| Disembodied | William Kersten |
| Disturbing Behavior | David Nutter |
| Doctor Dolittle | Betty Thomas |
| The Emperor and the Assassin | Chen Kaige |
| Enemy of the State | Tony Scott |
| The Eternal | Michael Almereyda |
| EverAfter | Andy Tennant |
| Extreme Crisis | Bruce Law |
| The Faculty | Robert Rodriguez |
| Fantastic Games | Alvaro Passeri |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam |
| Feeders 2: Slay Bells | John Polonia, Mark Polonia |
| Femalien 2 | Cybil Richards |
| Flowers of Shanghai | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| The Footprints of a Spirit | Carlos Rodríguez |
| Fun Without Limits | Ulrich Seidl |
| Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon |
| Golgo 13: Queen Bee | Osamu Dezaki |
| Great Expectations | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Half Baked | Tamra Davis |
| Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Steve Miner |
| Halloweentown | Duwayne Dunham |
| Happiness | Todd Solondz |
| Hard Rain | Mikael Salomon |
| He Got Game | Spike Lee |
| A Hero Never Dies | Johnnie To |
| High Art | Lisa Cholodenko |
| The Horse Whisperer | Robert Redford |
| I Stand Alone | Gaspar Noé |
| I'll Be Home for Christmas | Arlene Sanford |
| Jack Frost | Troy Miller |
| Jaded | Caryn Krooth |
| Knock Off | Tsui Hark |
| Kraa! The Sea Monster | Aaron Osborne |
| L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach | Andy Sidaris |
| The Landlady | Robert Malenfant |
| The Last Days of Disco | Whit Stillman |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald |
| Les Misérables | Bille August |
| Lethal Weapon 4 | Richard Donner |
| The Lion King II: Simba's Pride | Darrell Rooney |
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie |
| The Longest Nite | Patrick Yau, Johnnie To |
| Lost in Space | Stephen Hopkins |
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | John Maybury |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Randall Wallace |
| Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore | Sarah Jacobson |
| The Mask of Zorro | Martin Campbell |
| The Mighty | Peter Chelsom |
| Mighty Joe Young | Ron Underwood |
| Monument Ave. | Ted Demme |
| Mulan | Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft |
| The Negotiator | F. Gary Gray |
| Next Stop Wonderland | Brad Anderson |
| A Night at the Roxbury | John Fortenberry |
| Operation Billionaires | Yiu-Kuen Ng |
| Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh |
| The Parent Trap | Nancy Meyers |
| Party Monster: The Shockumentary | Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey |
| Patch Adams | Tom Shadyac |
| The Path of the Dragon | Walt Missingham |
| A Perfect Murder | Andrew Davis |
| Permanent Midnight | David Veloz |
| Phantasm IV: Oblivion | Don Coscarelli |
| Phantoms | Joe Chappelle |
| Phoenix | Danny Cannon |
| Pi | Darren Aronofsky |
| Playing by Heart | Willard Carroll |
| Pleasantville | Gary Ross |
| Pokémon: The First Movie | Kunihiko Yuyama |
| Postmortem | Albert Pyun |
| Practical Magic | Griffin Dunne |
| The Prince of Egypt | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells |
| Progeny | Brian Yuzna |
| The Prophecy II | Greg Spence |
| Psycho | Gus Van Sant |
| The Replacement Killers | Antoine Fuqua |
| The Revengers' Comedies | Malcolm Mowbray |
| Ringu | Hideo Nakata |
| Ronin | John Frankenheimer |
| Rounders | John Dahl |
| The Rugrats Movie | Igor Kovalyov, Norton Virgien |
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer |
| Rush Hour | Brett Ratner |
| Rushmore | Wes Anderson |
| Safe Men | John Hamburg |
| Samurai Fiction | Hiroyuki Nakano |
| Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg |
| Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island | Kazumi Fukushima, Hiroshi Aoyama, Jim Stenstrum |
| Screwed | Teruo Ishii |
| Shakespeare in Love | John Madden |
| Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl | Katsuhito Ishii |
| The Siege | Edward Zwick |
| A Simple Plan | Sam Raimi |
| Six-String Samurai | Lance Mungia |
| SLC Punk | James Merendino |
| Slums of Beverly Hills | Tamara Jenkins |
| Small Soldiers | Joe Dante |
| Snake Eyes | Brian De Palma |
| Sodomites | Gaspar Noé |
| Soldier | Paul W.S. Anderson |
| The Soul Guardians | Park Kwang-chun |
| Southie | John Shea |
| Species II | Peter Medak |
| Spiral | George Iida |
| Star Trek: Insurrection | Jonathan Frakes |
| Suicide Kings | Peter O'Fallon |
| TEKKEN: The Motion Picture | Kunihisa Sugishima |
| The Terrorist | Santosh Sivan |
| There's Something About Mary | Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly |
| The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick |
| The Truman Show | Peter Weir |
| U.S. Marshals | Stuart Baird |
| Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light | Kazuya Konaka |
| Unlucky Monkey | SABU |
| Urban Legend | Jamie Blanks |
| Vampires | John Carpenter |
| Velvet Goldmine | Todd Haynes |
| Very Bad Things | Peter Berg |
| Virtual Girl | Richard Gabai |
| Waking Ned | Kirk Jones |
| The Waterboy | Frank Coraci |
| The Wedding Singer | Frank Coraci |
| What Dreams May Come | Vincent Ward |
| Whispering Corridors | Park Ki-hyung |
| The Wisdom of Crocodiles | Po-Chih Leong |
| You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron |
| Young and Dangerous: The Prequel | Andrew Lau |
| Zero Effect | Jake Kasdan |