Academy Awards 2000

Best Picture

WINNER:
American Beauty: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks

NOMINEES:
The Cider House Rules: Richard N. Gladstein
The Green Mile: David Valdes, Frank Darabont
The Insider: Michael Mann, Pieter Jan Brugge
The Sixth Sense: Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
American Beauty: Kevin Spacey

NOMINEES:
The Insider: Russell Crowe
The Straight Story: Richard Farnsworth
Sweet and Lowdown: Sean Penn
The Hurricane: Denzel Washington

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Boys Don't Cry: Hilary Swank

NOMINEES:
American Beauty: Annette Bening
Tumbleweeds: Janet McTeer
The End of the Affair: Julianne Moore
Music of the Heart: Meryl Streep

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
The Cider House Rules: Michael Caine

NOMINEES:
Magnolia: Tom Cruise
The Green Mile: Michael Clarke Duncan
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Jude Law
The Sixth Sense: Haley Joel Osment

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Girl, Interrupted: Angelina Jolie

NOMINEES:
The Sixth Sense: Toni Collette
Being John Malkovich: Catherine Keener
Sweet and Lowdown: Samantha Morton
Boys Don't Cry: Chloë Sevigny

Best Director

WINNER:
American Beauty: Sam Mendes

NOMINEES:
Being John Malkovich: Spike Jonze
The Cider House Rules: Lasse Hallström
The Insider: Michael Mann
The Sixth Sense: M. Night Shyamalan

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER
American Beauty: Alan Ball

NOMINEES:
Being John Malkovich: Charlie Kaufman
Magnolia: Paul Thomas Anderson
The Sixth Sense: M. Night Shyamalan
Topsy-Turvy: Mike Leigh

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

WINNER:
The Cider House Rules: John Irving

NOMINEES:
Election: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
The Green Mile: Frank Darabont
The Insider: Eric Roth, Michael Mann
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Anthony Minghella

Best Cinematography

WINNER:
American Beauty: Conrad L. Hall

NOMINEES:
The End of the Affair: Roger Pratt
The Insider: Dante Spinotti
Sleepy Hollow: Emmanuel Lubezki
Snow Falling on Cedars: Robert Richardson

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER:
Sleepy Hollow: Rick Heinrichs (art director), Peter Young (set decorator)

NOMINEES:
Anna and the King: Luciana Arrighi (art director), Ian Whittaker (set decorator)
The Cider House Rules: David Gropman (art director), Beth A. Rubino (set decorator)
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Roy Walker (art director), Bruno Cesari (set decorator)
Topsy-Turvy: Eve Stewart (art director), John Bush (set decorator)

Best Costume Design

WINNER:
Topsy-Turvy: Lindy Hemming

NOMINEES:
Anna and the King: Jenny Beavan
Sleepy Hollow: Colleen Atwood
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Ann Roth, Gary Jones
Titus: Milena Canonero

Best Sound

WINNER:
The Matrix: John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, David Lee

NOMINEES:
The Green Mile: Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick, Willie D. Burton
The Insider: Andy Nelson, Doug Hemphill, Lee Orloff
The Mummy: Leslie Shatz, Chris Carpenter, Rick Kline, Chris Munro
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Shawn Murphy, John Midgley

Best Editing

WINNER:
The Matrix: Zach Staenberg

NOMINEES:
American Beauty: Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury
The Cider House Rules: Lisa Zeno Churgin
The Insider: William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, David Rosenbloom
The Sixth Sense: Andrew Mondshein

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

WINNER:
The Matrix: Dane A. Davis

NOMINEES
Fight Club: Ren Klyce, Richard Hymns
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: Ben Burtt, Tom Bellfort

Best Effects, Visual Effects

WINNER:
The Matrix: John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, Jon Thum

NOMINEES:
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires, Rob Coleman
Stuart Little: John Dykstra, Jerome Chen, Henry F. Anderson III, Eric Allard

Best Makeup

WINNER:
Topsy-Turvy: Christine Blundell, Trefor Proud

NOMINEES:
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: Michèle Burke, Mike Smithson
Bicentennial Man: Greg Cannom
Life: Rick Baker

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
Tarzan: Phil Collins
For the song "You'll Be In My Heart".

NOMINEES
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut: Trey Parker, Marc Shaiman
For the song "Blame Canada".
Music of the Heart: Diane Warren
For the song "Music Of My Heart".
Magnolia: Aimee Mann
For the song "Save Me".
Toy Story 2: Randy Newman
For the song "When She Loved Me".

Best Music, Original Score

WINNER:
Le violon rouge: John Corigliano

NOMINEES:
American Beauty: Thomas Newman
Angela's Ashes: John Williams
The Cider House Rules: Rachel Portman
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Gabriel Yared

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER:
The Old Man and the Sea: Aleksandr Petrov

NOMINEES:
Humdrum: Peter Peake
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts: Torill Kove
3 Misses: Paul Driessen
When the Day Breaks: Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER:
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York: Barbara Schock, Tammy Tiehel

NOMINEES:
Theis and Nico: Henrik Ruben Genz, Michael W. Horsten
Killing Joe: Mehdi Norowzian, Steve Wax
Kleingeld: Marc-Andreas Bochert, Gabriele Lins
Stora & små mirakel: Marcus Olsson

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
King Gimp: Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford

NOMINEES:
Eyewitness: Bert Van Bork
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo: Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER:
One Day in September: Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald

NOMINEES:
Buena Vista Social Club: Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
Genghis Blues: Roko Belic, Adrian Belic
On the Ropes: Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Speaking in Strings: Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER:
All About My Mother
Spain.

NOMINEES:
Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef
Nepal.
Est - Ouest
France.
Solomon and Gaenor
UK.
Under solen
Sweden.

Honorary Award

WINNERz;
Andrzej Wajda
For five decades of extraordinary film direction (Oscar statuette).

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

WINNERz;
Warren Beatty

Academy Award of Merit

WINNERz;

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERSz;
Nick Phillips
For the design and development of the three-axis Libra III remote control camera head.
Fritz Gabriel Bauer
For the concept, design and engineering of the Moviecam Superlight 35mm Motion Picture Camera.
Ian Neil, Rick Gelbard (Panavision, Inc.)
For the optical (Neil) and the mechanical design (Gelbard) and for the development (Panavision) of the Millennium Camera System viewfinder.
Huw Gwyllyn, Karl Lynch, Mark Crabtree
For the design and development of the AMS/Neve-Logic Digital Film Console for motion picture sound mixing.
James Moultrie, Mike Salter, Mark Craig Gerchman
For the mechanical (Moultrie) and the optical design (Salter/Gerchman) of the Cooke S4 Range of Fixed Focal Length Lenses for 35mm motion picture photography.
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.
L. Ron Schmidt
For the concept, design and engineering of the Linear Loop Film Projectors.
Nat Tiffen (Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation)
For the production of high-quality, durable, laminated color filters for motion picture photography.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERSz;
Vivienne Dyer, Chris Woolf
For the design and development of the Rycote Microphone Windshield Modular System.
Leslie Drever
For the design and development of the Light Wave microphone windscreens and isolation mounts from Light Wave Systems.
Richard C. Sehlin (Eastman Kodak), Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz (Eastman Kodak), Mary L. Schmoeger (Eastman Kodak)
For the concept (Sehlin), the design and development (Bogdanowicz/Schmoeger) of the Eastman Lamphouse Modification Filters.
Hoyt Yeatman (Dream Quest Images), John C. Brewer (Eastman Kodak)
For the identification and diagnosis leading to the elimination of the 'red fringe' artifact in traveling matte composite photography.

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

WINNER:
Roderick T. Ryan

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