2000
The 72nd Academy Awards | 2000
Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center
Sunday, March 26, 2000
Honoring movies released in 1999
Highlights
Memorable Moments
Winners & Nominees
Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
Kevin Spacey
American Beauty
Nominees
Richard Farnsworth
The Straight Story
Sean Penn
Sweet and Lowdown
Denzel Washington
The Hurricane
Russell Crowe
The Insider
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Michael Caine
The Cider House Rules
Nominees
Tom Cruise
Magnolia
Michael Clarke Duncan
The Green Mile
Jude Law
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Haley Joel Osment
The Sixth Sense
Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Hilary Swank
Boys Don't Cry
Nominees
Annette Bening
American Beauty
Janet McTeer
Tumbleweeds
Julianne Moore
The End of the Affair
Meryl Streep
Music of the Heart
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Angelina Jolie
Girl, Interrupted
Nominees
Catherine Keener
Being John Malkovich
Samantha Morton
Sweet and Lowdown
Chloë Sevigny
Boys Don't Cry
Toni Collette
The Sixth Sense
Best Picture
Winner
American Beauty
Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, Producers
Nominees
The Cider House Rules
Richard N. Gladstein, Producer
The Green Mile
David Valdes and Frank Darabont, Producers
The Insider
Michael Mann and Pieter Jan Brugge, Producers
The Sixth Sense
Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Barry Mendel, Producers
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
Costume Design
Winner
Topsy-Turvy
Lindy Hemming
Nominees
Titus
Milena Canonero
Anna and the King
Jenny Beavan
Sleepy Hollow
Colleen Atwood
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Ann Roth, Gary Jones
Directing
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
Film Editing
Winner
The Matrix
Zach Staenberg
Nominees
The Cider House Rules
Lisa Zeno Churgin
The Insider
William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, David Rosenbloom
The Sixth Sense
Andrew Mondshein
American Beauty
Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury
Foreign Language Film
Winner
All about My Mother
Spain
Nominees
Caravan
Nepal
East-West
France
Solomon and Gaenor
United Kingdom
Under the Sun
Sweden
Visual Effects
Winner
The Matrix
John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, Jon Thum
Nominees
Stuart Little
John Dykstra, Jerome Chen, Henry F. Anderson III, Eric Allard
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires, Rob Coleman
Art Direction
Winner
Sleepy Hollow
Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Peter Young
Nominees
Anna and the King
Art Direction: Luciana Arrighi; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker
The Cider House Rules
Art Direction: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Beth Rubino
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Art Direction: Roy Walker; Set Decoration: Bruno Cesari
Topsy-Turvy
Art Direction: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Eve Stewart, John Bush
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Warren Beatty
Music (Original Score)
Winner
The Red Violin
John Corigliano
Nominees
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Gabriel Yared
American Beauty
Thomas Newman
Angela's Ashes
John Williams
The Cider House Rules
Rachel Portman
Documentary (Short Subject)
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
Documentary (Feature)
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
Sound
Winner
The Matrix
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David 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
Short Film (Animated)
Winner
The Old Man and the Sea
Alexander Petrov
Nominees
When the Day Breaks
Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
Humdrum
Peter Peake
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
Torill Kove
3 Misses
Paul Driessen
Short Film (Live Action)
Winner
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York
Barbara Schock, Tammy Tiehel
Nominees
Bror, Min Bror (Teis and Nico)
Henrik Ruben Genz, Michael W. Horsten
Killing Joe
Mehdi Norowzian, Steve Wax
Kleingeld (Small Change)
Marc-Andreas Bochert, Gabriele Lins
Major and Minor Miracles
Marcus Olsson
Music (Original Song)
Winner
Tarzan
You'll Be In My Heart in "Tarzan" Music and Lyric by Phil Collins
Nominees
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Blame Canada in "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" Music and Lyric by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman
Music of the Heart
Music Of My Heart in "Music of the Heart" Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Magnolia
Save Me in "Magnolia" Music and Lyric by Aimee Mann
Toy Story 2
When She Loved Me in "Toy Story 2" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
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
Makeup
Winner
Topsy-Turvy
Christine Blundell, Trefor Proud
Nominees
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" Michèle Burke, Mike Smithson
Bicentennial Man
Greg Cannom
Life
Rick Baker
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
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
U
Under the Sun
1 NominationForeign Language Film - Sweden