Academy Awards 1999

Best Picture

WINNER:
Shakespeare in Love: David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman

NOMINEES:
Elizabeth: Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
Life Is Beautiful: Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi
Saving Private Ryan: Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
The Thin Red Line: Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Life Is Beautiful: Roberto Benigni

NOMINEES:
Saving Private Ryan: Tom Hanks
Gods and Monsters: Ian McKellen
Affliction: Nick Nolte
American History X: Edward Norton

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Shakespeare in Love: Gwyneth Paltrow

NOMINEES:
Elizabeth: Cate Blanchett
Central Station: Fernanda Montenegro
One True Thing: Meryl Streep
Hilary and Jackie: Emily Watson

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Affliction: James Coburn

NOMINEES:
A Civil Action: Robert Duvall
The Truman Show: Ed Harris
Shakespeare in Love: Geoffrey Rush
A Simple Plan: Billy Bob Thornton

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Shakespeare in Love: Judi Dench

NOMINEES:
Primary Colors: Kathy Bates
Little Voice: Brenda Blethyn
Hilary and Jackie: Rachel Griffiths
Gods and Monsters: Lynn Redgrave

Best Director

WINNER:
Saving Private Ryan: Steven Spielberg

NOMINEES:
Life Is Beautiful: Roberto Benigni
Shakespeare in Love: John Madden
The Thin Red Line: Terrence Malick
The Truman Show: Peter Weir

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER:
Shakespeare in Love: Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard

NOMINEES:
Bulworth: Warren Beatty (screenplay/story), Jeremy Pikser (screenplay)
Life Is Beautiful: Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
Saving Private Ryan: Robert Rodat
The Truman Show: Andrew Niccol

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

WINNER:
Gods and Monsters: Bill Condon

NOMINEES:
Out of Sight: Scott Frank
Primary Colors: Elaine May
A Simple Plan: Scott B. Smith
The Thin Red Line: Terrence Malick

Best Cinematography

WINNER:
Saving Private Ryan: Janusz Kaminski

NOMINEES:
A Civil Action: Conrad L. Hall
Elizabeth: Remi Adefarasin
Shakespeare in Love: Richard Greatrex
The Thin Red Line: John Toll

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER:
Shakespeare in Love: Martin Childs, Jill Quertier

NOMINEES:
Elizabeth: John Myhre, Peter Howitt
Pleasantville: Jeannine Claudia Oppewall, Jay Hart
Saving Private Ryan: Thomas E. Sanders, Lisa Dean
What Dreams May Come: Eugenio Zanetti, Cindy Carr

Best Costume Design

WINNER:
Shakespeare in Love: Sandy Powell

NOMINEES:
Beloved: Colleen Atwood
Elizabeth: Alexandra Byrne
Pleasantville: Judianna Makovsky
Velvet Goldmine: Sandy Powell

Best Sound

WINNER:
Saving Private Ryan: Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Ron Judkins

NOMINEES:
Armageddon: Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester
The Mask of Zorro: Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Pud Cusack
Shakespeare in Love: Robin O'Donoghue, Dominic Lester, Peter Glossop
The Thin Red Line: Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Paul 'Salty' Brincat

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
Saving Private Ryan: Michael Kahn

NOMINEES:
Life Is Beautiful: Simona Paggi
Out of Sight: Anne V. Coates
Shakespeare in Love: David Gamble
The Thin Red Line: Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, Saar Klein

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

WINNER:
Saving Private Ryan: Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns

NOMINEES:
Armageddon: George Watters II
The Mask of Zorro: Dave McMoyler

Best Effects, Visual Effects

WINNER:
What Dreams May Come: Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robertson, Kevin Scott Mack

NOMINEES:
Armageddon: Richard R. Hoover, Pat McClung, John Frazier
Mighty Joe Young: Rick Baker, Hoyt Yeatman, Allen Hall, Jim Mitchell

Best Makeup:

WINNER:
Elizabeth: Jenny Shircore

NOMINEES:
Saving Private Ryan: Lois Burwell, Conor O'Sullivan, Daniel C. Striepeke
Shakespeare in Love: Lisa Westcott, Veronica McAleer

Best Music, Original Song:

WINNER:
The Prince of Egypt: Stephen Schwartz
For the song "When You Believe".

NOMINEES:
Armageddon: Diane Warren
For the song "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing".
The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot: Carole Bayer Sager (music/lyrics), David Foster (music/lyrics), Tony Renis (lyrics), Alberto Testa (lyrics)
For the song "The Prayer".
The Horse Whisperer: Allison Moorer, Gwil Owen
For the song "A Soft Place To Fall".
Babe: Pig in the City: Randy Newman
For the song "That'll Do".

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

WINNER:
Life Is Beautiful: Nicola Piovani

NOMINEES:
Elizabeth: David Hirschfelder
Pleasantville: Randy Newman
Saving Private Ryan: John Williams
The Thin Red Line: Hans Zimmer

Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score

WINNER:
Shakespeare in Love: Stephen Warbeck

NOMINEES:
A Bug's Life: Randy Newman
Mulan: Matthew Wilder (music), David Zippel (lyrics), Jerry Goldsmith (orchestral score)
Patch Adams: Marc Shaiman
The Prince of Egypt: Stephen Schwartz (music/lyrics), Hans Zimmer (orchestral score)

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER:
Bunny: Chris Wedge

NOMINEES:
The Canterbury Tales: Christopher Grace, Jonathan Myerson
Jolly Roger: Mark Baker
More: Mark Osborne, Steve Kalafer
When Life Departs: Karsten Kiilerich, Stefan Fjeldmark

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER:
Valgaften: Kim Magnusson, Anders Thomas Jensen

NOMINEES:
Culture: Will Speck, Josh Gordon
Holiday Romance: Alexander Jovy
La carte postale: Vivian Goffette
Victor: Simon Sandquist, Joel Bergvall

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
The Personals: Keiko Ibi

NOMINEES:
A Place in the Land: Charles Guggenheim
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square: Shui-Bo Wang, Donald McWilliams

Best Documentary, Features:

WINNER:
The Last Days: James Moll, Ken Lipper

NOMINEES:
Dancemaker: Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer
The Farm: Angola, USA: Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth: Robert B. Weide
Regret to Inform: Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER:
Life Is Beautiful
Italy.

NOMINEES:
Central Station
Brazil.
Children of Heaven
Iran.
The Grandfather
Spain.
Tango
Argentina.

Honorary Award:

WINNER:
Elia Kazan
In appreciation of a long, distinguished and unparalleled career during which he has influenced the very nature of filmmaking through his creation of cinematic masterpieces. (Oscar statuette).
A great deal of controversy surrounded the presentation of this award to Elia Kazan, as there was still lingering resentment over his appearances before the House of Un-American Activities Committee 47 years earlier. In addition to a handful of protesters outside the theater, many attendees remained seated when he received his award, even refusing to applaud.
The executive council of the Eastern unit of the Writers Guild of America voted to protest against the Academy's decision to present an honorary Oscar to Elia Kazan, accusing Kazan of causing irrevocable harm to the lives and careers of several professional colleagues by informing the House of Un-American Activities Committee that they had once belonged to the Communist Party.

Medal of Commendation

WINNER:
David W. Gray
For his past and on-going dedication to the advancement of motion picture sound technology.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

WINNER:
Norman Jewison

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:
(Avid Technology, Inc.)
For the concept, system design and engineering of the Avid Film Composer for motion picture editing.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:
Thomas G. Stockham Jr., Robert B. Ingebretsen
For their pioneering work in the areas of waveform editing, crossfades and cut-and-paste techniques for digital audio editing.
James A. Moorer
For his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film.
Stephen J. Kay (K-Tec Corporation)
For the design and development of the Shock Block.
Gary Tregaskis, Dominique Boisvert, Phillippe Panzini, Andre LeBlanc
For the primary design (Tregakis) and for the development and implementation (Boisvert/Panzini/LeBlanc) of the Flame and Inferno software.
Bob Predovich, John Scott, Ken Husain, Cameron Shearer
For the design and implementation of the Soundmaster Integrated Operations Nucleus operating environment.
Roy Ference, Steve Schmidt, Richard J. Federico, Rocky Yarid, Mike McCrackan
For the design and development of the Kodak Lightning Laser Recorder.
Colin Mossman, Hans Leisinger, George John Rowland
For the concept and design of the Deluxe High Speed Spray Film Cleaner.
Walter Trauninger (Arnold & Richter Cine Technik) (ARRI USA, Inc., Arnold & Richter Cine Technik (engineering staff))
For the concept (ARRI USA) and the engineering (Arnold & Richter Cine Technik/Trauniger) of the ARRI 435 Camera System.
(Arnold & Richter Cine Technik, Carl Zeiss Company)
For the concept and optical design of the Carl Zeiss/Arriflex Variable Prime Lenses.
Derek C. Lightbody (OpTex)
For the design and development of Aurasoft luminaires.
Mark Roberts, Ronan Carroll, Assaff Rawner, Paul Bartlett, Simon Wakley
For the creation of the Milo Motion-Control Crane.
Michael Sørensen (Sorensen Designs International), Richard Alexander (Sorensen Designs International), Don Trumbull
For advancing the state-of-the-art of real-time motion-control, as exemplified in the Gazelle and Zebra camera dolly systems.
Ronald E. Uhlig (Eastman Kodak), Thomas F. Powers (Eastman Kodak), Fred M. Fuss (Eastman Kodak)
For the design and development of KeyKode latent-image barcode key numbers.
Iain Neil, Takuo Miyagishima (Panavision, Incorporated)
For the optical design (Neil), the mechanical design (Miyagishima and the concept and development (Panavision) of the Primo Series of spherical prime lenses for 35mm cinematography.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
Garrett Brown, Jerry Holway
For the creation of the Skyman flying platform for Steadicam operators.
Jim Rodnunsky (Cablecam Systems), Jim Webber (Cablecam Systems), Bob Webber (Cablecam Systems), Thornton Bayliss
For the design and engineering of Cablecam.
David DiFrancesco, N. Balasubramanian, Tom Noggle
For their pioneering efforts in the development of laser film recording technology.
Mike MacKenzie (Industrial Light & Magic), Mike Bolles (Industrial Light & Magic), Udo Pampel (Industrial Light & Magic), Joe Fulmer (Industrial Light & Magic)
For their pioneering work in motion-controlled, silent camera dollies.
Barry Walton (Sony Pictures Imageworks), Bill Schultz (Sony Pictures Imageworks), Chris Barker (Sony Pictures Imageworks), David Cornelius (Sony Pictures Imageworks)
For the creation of an advanced motion-controlled, silent camera dolly.
Bruce Wilton (Mechanical Concepts), Carlos Icinkoff (Mechanical Concepts)
For their modular system of motion-control rotators and movers for use in motion control.
Remy Smith, James K. Branch, Nasir J. Zaidi
For the software and electronic design and development (Smith and for the design and development (Branch/Zaidi) of the Spectra Professional IV-A digital exposure meter.
Ivan Kruglak
For his commitment to the development of a wireless transmission system for video-assisted images for the motion picture industry.
Doug Roble
For his contribution to tracking technology and for the design and implementation of the TRACK system for camera position calculation and scene reconstruction.
Thaddeus Beier
For the design and implementation of ras_track, a system for 2D tracking, stabilization and 3D camera and object tracking.
Manfred N. Klemme, Donald E. Wetzel
For the design and development of the K-Tek Microphone Boom Pole and accessories for on-set motion picture sound recording.
Nick Foster
For his software development in the field of water simulation systems.
Cary Phillips
For the design and development of the "Caricature" Animation System at Industrial Light & Magic.
M.J. Bogdanowicz (Eastman Kodak Company), Jim Meyers (Rosco Laboratories, Inc.), Stan Miller (Rosco Laboratories, Inc.)
For the design of the CalColor Calibrated Color Effects Filters.
Carl F. Holtz, David F. Kopperl, A. Tulsi Ram, Richard C. Sehlin
For the research and development of the concept of molecular sieves applied to improve the archival properties of processed photographic film.
Takuo Miyagishima (Panavision, Inc.), Albert K. Saiki (Panavision, Inc.)
For the design and development of the Eyepiece Leveler.
Edmund M. Di Giulio (Cinema Products), James Bartell (Cinema Products)
For the design of the KeyKode Sync Reader.
Ivan Kruglak
For his pioneering concept and the development of the Coherent Time Code Slate.
Michael Denecke
For refining and further developing electronic time-code slates.
Ed Zwaneveld (National Film Board of Canada), Frederick Gasoi (National Film Board of Canada), Mihal Lazaridis (Research in Motion), Dale Brubacher-Cressman (Research in Motion)
For refining and further developing electronic time-code slates.

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