Best 1998 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1998 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. Gods and Monsters
- Stacker score: 83.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 34,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Bill Condon
- Actors: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $6,451,628

#19. American History X
- Stacker score: 83.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 1.2 million)
- Metascore: 62
- Director: Tony Kaye
- Actors: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $6,719,864

#18. Smoke Signals
- Stacker score: 83.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Chris Eyre
- Actors: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard
- Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $6,745,362

#17. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Stacker score: 83.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 640,000)
- Metascore: 67
- Director: Guy Ritchie
- Actors: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,753,929

#16. Elizabeth
- Stacker score: 84.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 109,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Shekhar Kapur
- Actors: Cate Blanchett, Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $30,082,699

#15. Mulan
- Stacker score: 84.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 336,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
- Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong
- Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $120,620,254

#14. A Bug's Life
- Stacker score: 84.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 330,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
- Actors: Kevin Spacey, Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $162,798,565

#13. Hilary and Jackie
- Stacker score: 85.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Anand Tucker
- Actors: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $4,912,892

#12. The Big Lebowski
- Stacker score: 85.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 899,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $19,488,923

#11. Out of Sight
- Stacker score: 87.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 104,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Actors: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames
- Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $37,562,568

#10. The Thin Red Line
- Stacker score: 87.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 208,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Terrence Malick
- Actors: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte
- Runtime: 2 hours 50 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $36,400,491

#9. Run Lola Run
- Stacker score: 87.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 215,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Tom Tykwer
- Actors: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
- Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $7,647,184

#8. A Simple Plan
- Stacker score: 88.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 81,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Sam Raimi
- Actors: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $16,316,273

#7. Happiness
- Stacker score: 89.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 78,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Todd Solondz
- Actors: Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Runtime: 2 hours 14 minutes
- Rating: NC-17
- Box office: $2,982,011

#6. Shakespeare in Love
- Stacker score: 89.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 240,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: John Madden
- Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush
- Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $100,317,794

#5. Eternity and a Day
- Stacker score: 89.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 16,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Actors: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
- Runtime: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Rating: Unrated
- Box office: $107,178

#4. The Celebration
- Stacker score: 91.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 99,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Thomas Vinterberg
- Actors: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,656,223

#3. Rushmore
- Stacker score: 92.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 205,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Wes Anderson
- Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $17,105,219

#2. The Truman Show
- Stacker score: 97.2
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 1.3 million)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Peter Weir
- Actors: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $125,618,201

#1. Saving Private Ryan
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.6 (votes: 1.6 million)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
- Runtime: 2 hours 49 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $217,049,603