1999 (72nd Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1999. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
The Insider, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Michael Mann and Pieter Jan Brugge, Producers.The Sixth Sense, Kennedy/Marshall/Barry Mendel Production; Buena Vista. Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Barry Mendel, Producers.Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. (France, UK, USA)Actress in a Leading Role
Janet McTeer in Tumbleweeds, Spanky Pictures/Filmtribe in association with River One Films Production; Fine Line Features.Actor in a Supporting Role
Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Mirage Enterprises/Timnick Films Production; Paramount & Miramax.Actress in a Supporting Role
Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted, Red Wagon/Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. (USA, Germany)Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich, Propaganda Films/Single Cell Pictures Production; USA Films.Directing
Art Direction-Set Decoration
Anna and the King, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. Art direction by Luciana Arrighi; set decoration by Ian Whittaker.The Cider House Rules, FilmColony Production; Miramax Films. Art direction by David Gropman; set decoration by Beth Rubino.Sleepy Hollow, Scott Rudin/American Zoetrope Production; Paramount and Mandalay. (USA, Germany) Art direction by Rick Heinrichs; set decoration by Peter Young.The Talented Mr. Ripley, Mirage Enterprises/Timnick Films Production; Paramount & Miramax. Art direction by Roy Walker; set decoration by Bruno Cesari.Topsy-Turvy, Simon Channing-Williams Production; USA Films. (UK, USA) Art direction by Eve Stewart; set decoration by Eve Stewart and John Bush.Cinematography
Sleepy Hollow, Scott Rudin/American Zoetrope Production; Paramount and Mandalay. (USA, Germany) Emmanuel Lubezki.Snow Falling on Cedars, Kennedy/Marshall/Harry J. Ufland/Ron Bass Production; Universal. Robert Richardson.Costume Design
Sleepy Hollow, Scott Rudin/American Zoetrope Production; Paramount and Mandalay. (USA, Germany) Colleen Atwood.The Talented Mr. Ripley, Mirage Enterprises/Timnick Films Production; Paramount & Miramax. Ann Roth and Gary Jones.Documentary
(Feature)
Buena Vista Social Club, Road Movies Production; Artisan. (Germany, USA, UK, France, Cuba) Wim Wenders and Ulrich Felsberg.One Day in September, Arthur Cohn Production. (Switzerland, Germany, UK) Arthur Cohn and Kevin Macdonald.Speaking in Strings, CounterPoint Films Production; Seventh Art. Paola di Florio and Lilibet Foster.(Short Subject)
King Gimp, Whiteford-Hadary/University of Maryland/Tapestry International Production. Susan Hannah Hadary and William A. Whiteford.The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo, Gabriel Films Production; Seventh Art. Simeon Soffer and Jonathan Stack.Film Editing
The Insider, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom.Foreign Language Film
All About My Mother, El Deseo S.A./Renn/France 2 Cinéma Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Spain, France)Caravan, Galatée Films - France 2 Cinéma - Les Productions de la Guéville/Les Productions JMH/Antelope (UK) Limited/National Studio Limited/Bac Films Production. (France, Switzerland, UK, Nepal)East-West, UGC YM Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain)Solomon and Gaenor, APT Film and Television Company Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK)Under the Sun, Sweetwater AB Production. (Sweden)Makeup
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Eric’s Boy, Moving Pictures & Team Todd Production; New Line. Michèle Burke and Mike Smithson.Bicentennial Man, Touchstone Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production; Buena Vista. (USA, Germany) Greg Cannom.Topsy-Turvy, Simon Channing-Williams Production; USA Films. (UK, USA) Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud.Music
(Original Score)
Angela’s Ashes, David Brown/Scott Rudin/Dirty Hands Production; Paramount-Universal Pictures International. (USA, Ireland) John Williams.The Red Violin, Rhombus Media Production; Lions Gate Films. (Canada, Italy, USA, UK, Austria) John Corigliano.The Talented Mr. Ripley, Mirage Enterprises/Timnick Films Production; Paramount & Miramax. Gabriel Yared.(Original Song)
Blame Canada from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Scott Rudin and Trey Parker/Matt Stone in association with Comedy Central Production; Paramount and Warner Bros. Music and lyric by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman.Music of My Heart from Music of the Heart, Craven/Maddalena Films Production; Miramax Films. Music and lyric by Diane Warren.Save Me from Magnolia, JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; New Line. Music and lyric by Aimee Mann.When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2, Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios Production; Buena Vista. Music and lyric by Randy Newman.You’ll Be in My Heart from Tarzan, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music and lyric by Phil Collins.Short Films
(Animated)
My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts, National Film Board of Canada & Studio Magica a.s. Production. (Canada, Norway) Torill Kove.The Old Man and the Sea, Productions Pascal Blais/Imagica Corp./Dentsu Tech./NHK Enterprise 21/Panorama Studio of Yaroslavl Production. (Russia, Canada, Japan) Alexander Petrov.When the Day Breaks, National Film Board of Canada Production. (Canada) Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.(Live Action)
Bror, Min Bror (Teis and Nico), Nimbus Film & Dansk Novellefilm Production. (Denmark) Henrik Ruben Genz and Michael W. Horsten.Kleingeld (Small Change), A Production of Die Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg. (Germany) Marc-Andreas Bochert and Gabriele Lins.My Mother Dreams the Satan’s Disciples in New York, Kickstart Production; American Film Institute. Barbara Schock and Tammy Tiehel.Sound
The Green Mile, Castle Rock Production; Warner Bros. Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick and Willie D. Burton.The Insider, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Andy Nelson, Doug Hemphill and Lee Orloff.The Matrix, Matrix Films Pty Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell and David Lee.The Mummy, Alphaville Production; Universal. Leslie Shatz, Chris Carpenter, Rick Kline and Chris Munro.Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century Fox. Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Shawn Murphy and John Midgley.Sound Effects Editing
Fight Club, Fox 2000 Pictures and New Regency Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Germany) Ren Klyce and Richard Hymns.Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century Fox. Ben Burtt and Tom Bellfort.Visual Effects
The Matrix, Matrix Films Pty Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley and Jon Thum.Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century Fox. John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires and Rob Coleman.Stuart Little, Douglas Wick and Franklin/Waterman and Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. (Germany, USA) John Dykstra, Jerome Chen, Henry F. Anderson III and Eric Allard.Writing
(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)
Election, MTV Films in association with Bona Fide Production; Paramount. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor.The Talented Mr. Ripley, Mirage Enterprises/Timnick Films Production; Paramount & Miramax. Anthony Minghella.(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Honorary Award
To Andrzej Wajda in recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction. [ [Statuette]]To FPC, Incorporated, under the leadership of Barry M. Stultz and Milton Jan Friedman, for the development and implementation of an environmentally responsible program to recycle or destroy discarded motion picture prints. [ [Award of Commendaton - Special Award Plaque]]To Edmund M. Di Giulio in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]To Takuo Miyagishima in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]Gordon E. Sawyer Award
NOTE: The Gordon E. Sawyer Award was presented at the Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony on March 4, 2000, in the Ballroom of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific and Technical Award
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Nick Phillips for the design and development of the three-axis Libra III remote control camera head. The Libra III head can accept a range of film cameras and their lenses and allows the operator to add stabilization to each axis for medium focal length lenses. Motion capture and playback are also selectable features.To Fritz Gabriel Bauer for the concept, design and engineering of the Moviecam Superlight 35mm Motion Picture Camera. The quiet Moviecam Superlight is an extremely small and light 35mm professional motion picture sound camera which allows the cinematographer to film in ways and situations that were never before possible.To Iain Neil for the optical design, Rick Gelbard for the mechanical design, and Panavision, Inc. for the development of the Millennium Camera System viewfinder. This unique and versatile viewfinder with two independent viewing positions provides a very high-resolution video assist image, greatly enhancing its application for on-set compositing or non-linear editing.To Huw Gwilym, Karl Lynch and Mark V. Crabtree for the design and development of the AMS Neve Logic Digital Film Console for motion picture sound mixing. This console allows the user multi-position mixing capabilities, stem routing predub inputs and other filmcentric attributes. This is the first fully digital audio mixing console specifically designed for post-production film mixing.To James Moultrie for the mechanical design, and to Mike Salter and Mark Craig Gerchman for the optical design of the Cooke S4 Range of Fixed Focal Length Lenses for 35mm motion picture photography. These state-of-the-art fixed focal length 35mm lenses are the result of intense efforts to meet industry requirements in several areas. Providing superior performance in several cinematographic aspects, these lenses include a unique linear focus system.To Marlowe A. Pichel for development of the process for manufacturing Electro-formed Metal Reflectors which, when combined with the DC Short Arc Xenon Lamp, became the worldwide standard for motion picture projection systems. The impact of the Electro-formed Metal Reflector over the decades has completely changed the presentation side of the motion picture industry allowing the replacement of the carbon arc light source and the implementation of automated projection systems.To L. Ron Schmidt for the concept, design and engineering of the Linear Loop Film Projectors. These radically new motion picture film projectors provide superior print handling, image steadiness, screen illumination and enhanced viewer experience by means of an extremely simple air-driven mechanical transport system.To Nat Tiffen of Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation for the production of high-quality, durable, laminated color filters for motion picture photography. Materials of uniform color characteristics are implanted between layers of optical glass and bonded together under extremes of heat and pressure. The outer surfaces are ground and polished to specified close tolerances, free of distortion and resistant to changes in temperature or humidity, then bound with a protective metal ring.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Vivienne Dyer and Chris Woolf for the design and development of the Rycote Microphone Windshield Modular System. Designed to eliminate physical acoustical rumble and to mask a microphone’s high sensitivity to wind and other unwanted noises, the lightweight and rugged Rycote Microphone Windshields accomplish these tasks without altering or impairing the original frequency response of the microphone.To Leslie Drever for the design and development of the Light Wave microphone windscreens and isolation mounts from Light Wave Systems. Designed to eliminate physical acoustical rumble and to cover a microphone’s high sensitivity to wind and other unwanted noises, the Light Wave Systems line of shock mounts and windscreens accomplish these tasks without altering or impairing the original frequency response of the microphone.To Richard C. Sehlin for the concept, and Dr. Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz and Mary L. Schmoeger of the Eastman Kodak Company for the design and development of the Eastman Lamphouse Modification Filters. The ELM Filters enable a laboratory to achieve additive printer contrast and color reproduction using a subtractive lamphouse.To Hoyt H. Yeatman, Jr. of Dream Quest Images and John C. Brewer of the Eastman Kodak Company for the identification and diagnosis leading to the elimination of the “red fringe” artifact in traveling matte composite photography. The elimination of the “red fringe” artifact in traveling matte composite photography obviates expensive additional computerized image processing thus reducing the time involved in producing a seamless and convincing composite shot.NOTE: The Scientific and Technical Awards were presented at their own ceremony on March 4, 2000, in the Ballroom of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.