1999 Academy Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The 1999 Academy Awards were presented March 26, 2000 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.

Best Picture

American Beauty, Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, producers (DreamWorks SKG)

The Cider House Rules, Richard N. Gladstein, producer (Miramax)

The Green Mile, David Valdes and Frank Darabont, producers (Warner Bros.)

The Insider, Michael Mann and Pieter Jan Brugge, producers (Touchstone)

The Sixth Sense, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, and Barry Mendel, producers (Hollywood)

Actor in a Leading Role

Russell Crowe, The Insider

Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story

Sean Penn, Sweet and Lowdown

Kevin Spacey, American Beauty

Denzel Washington, The Hurricane

Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening, American Beauty

Janet McTeer, Tumbleweeds

Julianne Moore, The End of the Affair

Meryl Streep, Music of the Heart

Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry

Actor in a Supporting Role

Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules

Tom Cruise, Magnolia

Michael Clarke Duncan, The Green Mile

Jude Law, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense

Actress in a Supporting Role

Toni Collette, The Sixth Sense

Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted

Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich

Samantha Morton, Sweet and Lowdown

Chloë Sevigny, Boys Don't Cry

Directing

Sam Mendes, American Beauty

Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich

Lasse Hallström, The Cider House Rules

Michael Mann, The Insider

M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense

Writing

Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Alan Ball, American Beauty
	Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich
	P. T. Anderson, Magnolia
	M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense
	Mike Leigh, Topsy-Turvy
Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published	John Irving, The Cider House Rules
	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Election
	Frank Darabont, The Green Mile
	Eric Roth and Michael Mann, The Insider
	Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Cinematography

Conrad L. Hall, American Beauty

Roger Pratt, The End of the Affair

Dante Spinotti, The Insider

Emmanuel Lubezki, Sleepy Hollow

Robert Richardson, Snow Falling on Cedars

Art Direction

Luciana Arrighi, Anna and the King

David Gropman, The Cider House Rules

Rick Heinrichs, Sleepy Hollow

Roy Walker, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Eve Stewart, Topsy-Tuvry

Sound

Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick, and Willie D. Burton, The Green Mile

Andy Nelson, Doug Hemphill, and Lee Orloff, The Insider

John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, and David Lee, The Matrix

Leslie Shatz, Chris Carpenter, Rick Kline, and Chris Munro, The Mummy

Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Shawn Murphy, and John Midgley, Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace

Music

Song	“Blame Canada”, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman
	“Music of My Heart,” Music of the Heart, Diane Warren
	“Save Me,” Magnolia, Aimee Mann
	“When She Loved Me,” Toy Story 2, Randy Newman
	*“You'll Be in My Heart,” Tarzan, Phil Collins*
Original Score	Thomas Newman, American Beauty
	John Williams, Angela's Ashes
	Rachel Portman, The Cider House Rules
	John Corigliano, The Red Violin
	Gabriel Yared, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Film Editing

Tariq Anwar, American Beauty

Lisa Zeno Churgin, The Cider House Rules

William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, and David Rosenbloom, The Insider

Zach Staenberg, The Matrix

Andrew Mondshein, The Sixth Sense

Costume Design

Jenny Beavan, Anna and the King

Colleen Atwood, Sleepy Hollow

Ann Roth and Gary Jones, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Milena Canonero, Titus

Lindy Hemming, Topsy-Turvy

Makeup

Michèle Burke and Mike Smithson, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Greg Cannom, Bicentennial Man

Rick Baker, Life

Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud, Topsy-Turvy

Visual Effects

John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum, The Matrix

John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires, and Rob Coleman, Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace

John Dykstra, Jerome Chen, Henry F. Anderson, III, and Eric Allard, Stuart Little

Sound Effects Editing

Ren Klyce and Richard Hymns, Fight Club

Dane A. Davis, The Matrix

Ben Burtt and Tom Bellfort, Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace

Short Films

Animation	Humdrum(Peter Peake )
	My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts (Torill Kove)
	The Old Man and the Sea(Alexandre Petrov)
	3 Misses (Paul Driessen)
	When the Day Breaks(Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis)
Live Action	Bror, Min Bro (Henrik Ruben Genz and Michael W. Horsten)
	Killing Joe (Mehdi Norowzian and Steve Wax )
	Kleingeld (Small Change) (Marc-Andreas Bochert and Gabriele Lins )
	Major and Minor Miracles (Marcus Olsson)
	My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York (Barbara Schock and Tamara Tiehel)

Documentary

Short Subject	Eyewitness (Bert Van Bork)
	King Gimp (Susan Hannah Hadary and William A. Whiteford)
	The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo (Simeon Soffer and Jonathan Stack)
Feature	Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders and Ulrich Felsberg)
	Genghis Blues (Roko Belic and Adrian Belic)
	On the Ropes (Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen)
	One Day in September (Arthur Cohn)
	Speaking in Strings (Paola di Florio and Lilibet Foster)