Oscars Rematch: 1999
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1. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,210,437 | Gross: $130.10M
Best Picture!
Winner: American Beauty!
Nominees:
Being John Malkovich
The Green Mile
The Insider
The Sixth Sense
2. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,210,437 | Gross: $130.10M
Best Director!
Winner: Sam Mendes!
Nominees:
Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich
Frank Darabont - The Green Mile
Michael Mann - The Insider
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
3. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,210,437 | Gross: $130.10M
Best Actor!
Winner: Kevin Spacey!
Nominees:
Russell Crowe - The Insider
Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story
Edward Norton - Fight Club
Denzel Washington - The Hurricane
4. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,210,437 | Gross: $130.10M
Best Actress!
Winner: Annette Bening!
Nominees:
Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds
Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair
Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
Reese Witherspoon - Election
5. Magnolia (1999)
R | 188 min | Drama
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Votes: 328,358 | Gross: $22.46M
Best Supporting Actor!
Winner: Tom Cruise!
Nominees:
Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile
John Malkovich - Being John Malkovich
Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
Brad Pitt - Fight Club
6. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
R | 127 min | Biography, Drama
A directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy
Votes: 211,168 | Gross: $28.87M
Best Supporting Actress!
Winner: Angelina Jolie!
Nominees:
Toni Collette - The Sixth Sense
Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich
Samantha Morton - Sweet and Lowdown
Chloe Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry
7. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,210,437 | Gross: $130.10M
Best Original Screenplay!
Winner: Alan Ball!
Nominees:
Charlie Kaufman - Being John Malkovich
Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
Mike Leigh - Topsy-Turvy
8. The Insider (1999)
R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora
Votes: 180,140 | Gross: $28.97M
Best Adapted Screenplay!
Winner: Michael Mann and Eric Roth!
Nominees:
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor - Election
Jim Uhls - Fight Club
Frank Darabont - The Green Mile
Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley
9. Toy Story 2 (1999)
G | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends set out on a rescue mission to save Woody before he becomes a museum toy property with his roundup gang Jessie, Prospector, and Bullseye.
Directors: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer
Votes: 619,390 | Gross: $245.85M
Best Animated Feature!
Winner: Toy Story 2!
Nominees:
The Iron Giant
Princess Mononoke
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Tarzan
10. All About My Mother (1999)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, and overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan
Votes: 102,834 | Gross: $8.26M
Best Foreign Language Film!
Winner: All About My Mother!
Nominees:
Himalaya
East/West
Solomon & Gaenor
Under the Sun
11. One Day in September (1999)
R | 94 min | Documentary, History, Sport
The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey, Gerald Seymour
Votes: 6,241 | Gross: $0.16M
Best Documentary Feature!
Winner: One Day in September!
Nominees:
Buena Vista Social Club
Genghis Blues
On the Ropes
Speaking in Strings
12. King Gimp (1999)
39 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary that focus on artist Dan Keplinger, a man born with cerebral palsy who manages to compose great works of art. Baltimore filmmakers Susan Hadary and William Whiteford ... See full summary »
Directors: Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford | Stars: Paul Hungerford, Dan Keplinger
Votes: 257
Best Documentary Short!
Winner: King Gimp!
Nominees:
Eyewitness
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
13. My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York (1998)
30 min | Short
A widowed Midwestern housewife travels to Manhattan for the first time to visit her daughter. Once there, she becomes obsessed with the Hell's Angels-ish bikers' club across the street from her daughter's East Village apartment.
Director: Barbara Schock | Stars: Helen Stenborg, Patricia Dunnock, Scott Sowers, Mickey Jones
Votes: 171
Best Live Action Short!
Winner: My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York!
Nominees:
Bror, Min Bror
Killing Joe
Kleingeld
Major and Minor Miracles
14. The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
20 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.
Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Stars: Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Duhaney, Yôji Matsuda, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 4,575
Best Animated Short!
Winner: The Old Man and the Sea!
Nominees:
3 Misses
Humdrum
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
When the Day Breaks
15. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,210,437 | Gross: $130.10M
Best Original Score!
Winner: American Beauty!
Nominees:
Angela's Ashes
The Cider House Rules
The Red Violin
The Talented Mr. Ripley
16. Tarzan (1999)
G | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human.
Directors: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima | Stars: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed, Glenn Close
Votes: 247,053 | Gross: $171.09M
Best Original Song!
Winner: "You'll Be in My Heart", Tarzan!
Nominees:
"Blame Canada" - South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
"Music of My Heart" - Music of the Heart
"Save Me" - Magnolia
"When She Loved Me" - Toy Story 2
17. Fight Club (1999)
R | 139 min | Drama
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
Votes: 2,322,176 | Gross: $37.03M
Best Sound Effects!
Winner: Fight Club!
Nominees:
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
The Matrix
18. The Matrix (1999)
R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 2,051,844 | Gross: $171.48M
Best Sound!
Winner: The Matrix!
Nominees:
The Green Mile
The Insider
The Mummy
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
19. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
R | 105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon
Votes: 383,767 | Gross: $101.07M
Best Art Direction!
Winner: Sleepy Hollow!
Nominees:
Anna and the King
The Cider House Rules
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Topsy-Turvy
20. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,210,437 | Gross: $130.10M
Best Cinematography!
Winner: American Beauty!
Nominees:
The End of the Affair
The Insider
Sleepy Hollow
Snow Falling on Cedars
21. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
R | 160 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith
Votes: 13,471 | Gross: $6.20M
Best Makeup!
Winner: Topsy-Turvy!
Nominees:
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Bicentennial Man
Life
22. Titus (1999)
R | 162 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Osheen Jones, Dario D'Ambrosi
Votes: 21,459 | Gross: $1.92M
Best Costume Design!
Winner: Titus!
Nominees:
Anna and the King
Sleepy Hollow
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Topsy-Turvy
23. The Matrix (1999)
R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 2,051,844 | Gross: $171.48M
Best Film Editing!
Winner: The Matrix!
Nominees:
American Beauty
The Cider House Rules
The Insider
The Sixth Sense
24. The Matrix (1999)
R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 2,051,844 | Gross: $171.48M
Best Visual Effects!
Winner: The Matrix!
Nominees:
Stuart Little
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
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