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5th Czech Lion Awards
5th Czech Lion Awards
Date	February 28, 1997
Site	Lucerna, Prague
Hosted by	Bolek Polívka
Highlights
Best Picture	Buttoners
Best Actor	Jiří Schmitzer; Boomerang
Best Actress	Lenka Vlasáková; Lea
Best Supporting Actor	Jiří Kodet; Buttoners
Best Supporting Actress	Martha Issová; An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World
Most awards	An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (4); Buttoners (4)
Most nominations	Lea (9)
Television coverage
Network	Czech Television
	← 1996; Czech Lion Awards; 1998 →;

1997 Czech Lion Awards ceremony was held on 28 February 1998. Buttoners has won four awards.^[2]

Winners and nominees

Best Film	Best Director
Buttoners	Petr Zelenka — Buttoners
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jiří Schmitzer — Boomerang	Lenka Vlasáková — Lea
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Jiří Kodet — Buttoners	Martha Issová — An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World
Best Screenplay	Best Editing
Buttoners	An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World
Design	Best Cinematography
The Path through a Desolate Forest	Lea
Music	Sound
An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World	An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World
Unique Contribution to Czech Film
Miloš Forman

Best Foreign Film	Most Popular Film
Breaking the Waves	Men in Black
Film Critics' Award	Cinema Readers' Award
Buttoners	Those Wonderful Years That Sucked

^ "Český lev 1997". Kinobox.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
^ Šrajer, Martin. "Po stopách Českého lva". Filmový přehled (in Czech). Retrieved 20 April 2018.^{[permanent dead link‍]}