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1999 in film
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The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's posthumous final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, the science-fiction film The Matrix, the animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the Best Picture-winner American Beauty, and the well-received The Green Mile. Other noteworthy releases include M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, David Fincher's Fight Club, Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's Being John Malkovich. The year also featured George Lucas' top-grossing Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated their 75th anniversaries in 1999.
Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 1999 by worldwide gross are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace* | [20th Century Fox](20th-century-fox) | $924,305,084 | |||||||||||
| *The Sixth Sense* | Buena Vista | $672,806,292 | |||||||||||
| *Toy Story 2* | $511,358,276 | ||||||||||||
| *The Matrix* | Warner Bros. | $465,974,198 | |||||||||||
| *Tarzan* | Buena Vista | $448,191,819 | |||||||||||
| *The Mummy* | Universal | $418,138,535 | |||||||||||
| *Notting Hill* | $363,889,678 | ||||||||||||
| *The World Is Not Enough* | MGM / UIP | $361,832,400 | |||||||||||
| *American Beauty* | DreamWorks | $356,296,601 | |||||||||||
| *Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me* | New Line | $312,383,487 |
Awards
| Category/Organization | [57th Golden Globe Awards](57th-golden-globe-awards) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 23, 2000 | [5th Critics' Choice Awards](5th-critics-choice-awards) | ||||||
| January 2000 | Producers, [Directors](52nd-directors-guild-of-america-awards), [Screen Actors](6th-screen-actors-guild-awards), and Writers Guild Awards | [72nd Academy Awards](72nd-academy-awards) | |||||
| March 26, 2000 | [53rd BAFTA Awards](53rd-bafta-awards) | ||||||
| April 9, 2000 | Drama | Musical or Comedy | |||||
| Best Film | *American Beauty* | *Toy Story 2* | *American Beauty* | ||||
| Best Director | Sam Mendes | ||||||
| *American Beauty* | Pedro Almodóvar | ||||||
| *All About My Mother* | |||||||
| Best Actor | Denzel Washington | ||||||
| *The Hurricane* | Jim Carrey | ||||||
| *Man on the Moon* | Russell Crowe | ||||||
| *The Insider* | Kevin Spacey | ||||||
| *American Beauty* | |||||||
| Best Actress | Hilary Swank | ||||||
| *Boys Don't Cry* | Janet McTeer | ||||||
| *Tumbleweeds* | Hilary Swank | ||||||
| *Boys Don't Cry* | Annette Bening | ||||||
| *American Beauty* | Hilary Swank | ||||||
| *Boys Don't Cry* | Annette Bening | ||||||
| *American Beauty* | |||||||
| Best Supporting Actor | Tom Cruise | ||||||
| *Magnolia* | Michael Clarke Duncan | ||||||
| *The Green Mile* | Michael Caine | ||||||
| *The Cider House Rules* | Jude Law | ||||||
| *The Talented Mr. Ripley* | |||||||
| Best Supporting Actress | Angelina Jolie | ||||||
| *Girl, Interrupted* | Maggie Smith | ||||||
| *Tea with Mussolini* | |||||||
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | Alan Ball | ||||||
| *American Beauty* | Frank Darabont | ||||||
| *The Green Mile* | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | ||||||
| *Election* | John Irving | ||||||
| *The Cider House Rules* | Neil Jordan | ||||||
| *The End of the Affair* | |||||||
| Best Screenplay, Original | Alan Ball | ||||||
| *American Beauty* | Charlie Kaufman | ||||||
| *Being John Malkovich* | |||||||
| Best Animated Film | *Toy Story 2* | ||||||
| Best Original Score | *The Legend of 1900* | ||||||
| Ennio Morricone | *The Talented Mr. Ripley* | ||||||
| Gabriel Yared | **N/A** | *The Red Violin* | |||||
| John Corigliano | *American Beauty* | ||||||
| Thomas Newman | |||||||
| Best Original Song | "You'll Be in My Heart" | ||||||
| *Tarzan* | "Music of My Heart" | ||||||
| *Music of the Heart* | **N/A** | "You'll Be in My Heart" | |||||
| *Tarzan* | **N/A** | ||||||
| Best Foreign Language Film | *All About My Mother* | **N/A** | *All About My Mother* |
1999 films
By country/region
- List of American films of 1999
- List of Argentine films of 1999
- List of Australian films of 1999
- List of Bangladeshi films of 1999
- List of British films of 1999
- List of Canadian films of 1999
- List of French films of 1999
- List of Hong Kong films of 1999
- List of Indian films of 1999
- List of Hindi films of 1999
- List of Kannada films of 1999
- List of Malayalam films of 1999
- List of Marathi films of 1999
- List of Tamil films of 1999
- List of Telugu films of 1999
- List of Japanese films of 1999
- List of Mexican films of 1999
- List of Pakistani films of 1999
- List of Russian films of 1999
- List of South Korean films of 1999
- List of Spanish films of 1999
By genre/medium
- List of action films of 1999
- List of animated feature films of 1999
- List of avant-garde films of 1999
- List of crime films of 1999
- List of comedy films of 1999
- List of drama films of 1999
- List of horror films of 1999
- List of science fiction films of 1999
- List of thriller films of 1999
- List of western films of 1999
Births
- January 1 - Diamond White, American actress
- January 4 - Gage Munroe, Canadian actor
- January 6 - Eliza Scanlen, Australian actress
- January 15 - Miray Daner, Turkish actress
- January 18 - Karan Brar, American actor
- January 29 - Madison Bailey, American actress
- February 3 - Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress
- February 7 - Bea Miller, American singer, songwriter and actress
- February 10 - Tiffany Espensen, American actress
- February 19 - Sonia Ben Ammar, French model, singer and actress
- March 5 - Yeri, South Korean singer and actress
- March 10 - Bruna Griphao, Brazilian actress
- March 25
- Jin Ji-hee, South Korean actress
- Mikey Madison, American actress
- April 27 - Brooklynn Proulx, Canadian former actress
- April 29 - Morgan Turner, American actress
- May 10 - Michael Gandolfini, American actor
- May 11 - Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress
- May 24 - Charlie Plummer, American actor
- May 25 - Brec Bassinger, American actress
- May 27 - Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress
- May 28 - Cameron Boyce, American actor (d. 2019)
- May 30 - Sean Giambrone, American actor
- June 2 - Madison Leisle, American actress
- June 20 - Kayla Maisonet, American actress
- June 26 - Harley Quinn Smith, American actress
- June 27 - Chandler Riggs, American actor
- July 9 - Claire Corlett, Canadian actress
- July 18 - Onni Tommila, Finnish actor
- July 30 - Joey King, American actress
- August 13 - Eli Brown, American actor
- August 19 - Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor and musician
- August 22
- Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
- Ricardo Hurtado, American actor and singer
- September 1 - Jadagrace, American actress, dancer, singer and rapper
- September 2 - Gavin Casalegno, American actor and model
- September 4 - Ellie Darcey-Alden, English actress
- September 7 - Michelle Creber, Canadian actress
- September 14 - Emma Kenney, American actress
- September 17 - Daniel Huttlestone, English actor
- October 12 - Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician
- October 13 - Nell Tiger Free, English actress and singer
- October 15 - Bailee Madison, American actress
- October 21 - Carson MacCormac, Canadian actor
- October 22 - Charlie Wright (American actor), American actor
- October 31 - Danielle Rose Russell, American actress
- November 10
- Kiernan Shipka, American actress
- Michael Cimino, American actor
- November 14 - Jude Wright, English actor
- November 16 - Francesca Scorsese, American actress and filmmaker
- December 2 - Fred Hechinger, American actor
- December 7 - Bethany Whitmore, Australian actress
Deaths
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **January** | *4* | Iron Eyes Cody | 91 | US | Actor | |
| *9* | Harvey Miller | 63 | US | Screenwriter, Director, Actor | ||
| *11* | Robert Douglas | 89 | UK | Actor, Director | ||
| *12* | Betty Lou Gerson | 84 | US | Actress | ||
| *13* | Buzz Kulik | 79 | US | Director | ||
| *14* | Fred Myrow | 59 | US | Composer | ||
| *15* | John Bloom | 54 | US | Actor | ||
| *15* | Betty Box | 83 | UK | Producer | ||
| *19* | Michael White | 36 | UK | Production Designer | ||
| *21* | Leslie French | 94 | UK | Actor | ||
| *21* | Susan Strasberg | 60 | US | Actress | ||
| *23* | Joe D'Amato | 62 | Italy | Director, Producer | ||
| *30* | Huntz Hall | 78 | US | Actor | ||
| *30* | Ed Herlihy | 89 | US | Actor | ||
| **February** | *6* | Danny Dayton | 75 | US | Actor | |
| *7* | William Ludwig | 86 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *7* | Bobby Troup | 80 | US | Actor, Singer | ||
| *9* | Mary LaRoche | 78 | US | Actress | ||
| *9* | Bryan Mosley | 67 | UK | Actor | ||
| *10* | Yuri Borienko | 66 | Russia | Actor | ||
| *17* | Sunshine Parker | 71 | US | Actor | ||
| *17* | Shirley Stoler | 69 | US | Actress | ||
| *20* | Gene Siskel | 53 | US | Film Critic | None; critiqued films for the *Chicago Tribune* | |
| *24* | Derek Nimmo | 68 | UK | Actor | ||
| *26* | Madelon Baker | 88 | US | Actress | ||
| **March** | *3* | Lee Philips | 72 | US | Actor, Director | |
| *4* | Del Close | 64 | US | Actor | ||
| *4* | Eddie Dean | 91 | US | Singer, Actor | ||
| *5* | Richard Kiley | 76 | US | Actor | ||
| *6* | Graham Armitage | 62 | UK | Actor | ||
| *7* | Stanley Kubrick | 70 | US | Director, Screenwriter | ||
| *8* | Peggy Cass | 74 | US | Actress | ||
| *13* | Garson Kanin | 86 | US | Screenwriter, Director | ||
| *14* | Kirk Alyn | 88 | US | Actor | ||
| *17* | Ernest Gold | 77 | Austria | Composer | ||
| *20* | Mickey S. Michaels | 67 | US | Set Decorator | ||
| *22* | David Strickland | 29 | US | Actor | ||
| *28* | Gil Perkins | 91 | Australia | Actor | ||
| **April** | *4* | Faith Domergue | 74 | US | Actress | |
| *4* | Bob Peck | 53 | UK | Actor | ||
| *9* | Albert Popwell | 72 | US | Actor | ||
| *13* | Don McGuire | 80 | US | Screenwriter, Director, Actor | ||
| *14* | Roy Chiao | 72 | China | Actor | ||
| *14* | Ellen Corby | 87 | US | Actress | ||
| *14* | Anthony Newley | 67 | UK | Actor, Composer | ||
| *15* | Yasmeen Khan | c. 48 | Pakistan | Actress | ||
| *16* | Rudi Fehr | 87 | Germany | Film Editor | ||
| *16* | Zoë Lund | 37 | US | Actress | ||
| *21* | Doreen Lang | 84 | New Zealand | Actress | ||
| *21* | Buddy Rogers | 94 | US | Actor | ||
| *22* | Bert Remsen | 74 | US | Actor | ||
| *28* | Rory Calhoun | 76 | US | Actor | ||
| *28* | John Stears | 64 | UK | Special Effects Artist | ||
| *28* | Donald E. Stewart | 69 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| **May** | *2* | Augie Blunt | 69 | US | Actor | |
| *2* | Oliver Reed | 62 | UK | Actor | ||
| *8* | Dirk Bogarde | 78 | UK | Actor | ||
| *8* | Ed Gilbert | 67 | US | Voice Actor | ||
| *8* | Sally Payne | 86 | US | Actress | ||
| *8* | Dana Plato | 34 | US | Actress | ||
| *14* | Jerry Wunderlich | 73 | US | Set Decorator | ||
| *17* | Henry Jones | 86 | US | Actor | ||
| *19* | Candy Candido | 85 | US | Actor | ||
| *19* | John McSweeney Jr. | 83 | US | Film Editor | ||
| *19* | Alister Williamson | 80 | Australia | Actor | ||
| *21* | Vanessa Brown | 71 | Austria | Actress | ||
| *21* | Norman Rossington | 70 | UK | Actor | ||
| *25* | Hillary Brooke | 84 | US | Actress | ||
| **June** | *5* | Mel Torme | 73 | US | Singer, Actor | |
| *9* | Andrew L. Stone | 96 | US | Director, Screenwriter | ||
| *11* | DeForest Kelley | 79 | US | Actor | ||
| *13* | Douglas Seale | 85 | UK | Actor | ||
| *18* | Aimée Delamain | 93 | UK | Actress | ||
| *19* | Mario Soldati | 92 | Italy | Director | ||
| *24* | Dorothy Lee | 88 | US | Actress | ||
| *25* | Frank Tarloff | 83 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *27* | Bobs Watson | 68 | US | Actor | ||
| *28* | John Woolf | 86 | UK | Producer | ||
| *29* | Allan Carr | 62 | US | Producer | ||
| *29* | Declan Mulholland | 66 | Ireland | Actor | ||
| *30* | Dean Fredericks | 75 | US | Actor | ||
| **July** | *1* | Edward Dmytryk | 90 | Canada | Director, Film Editor | |
| *1* | Sylvia Sidney | 88 | US | Actress | ||
| *2* | Mario Puzo | 78 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *4* | Ronny Graham | 79 | US | Screenwriter, Actor | ||
| *4* | Jack Watson | 84 | UK | Actor | ||
| *12* | Bill Owen | 85 | UK | Actor | ||
| *17* | Donal McCann | 58 | Ireland | Actor | ||
| *17* | Patricia Zipprodt | 74 | US | Costume Designer | ||
| *19* | Yoko Tani | 70 | France | Actress | ||
| *19* | Jerold Wells | 90 | UK | Actor | ||
| *20* | Sandra Gould | 82 | US | Actress | ||
| **August** | *4* | Victor Mature | 86 | US | Actor | |
| *4* | Carl Toms | 72 | UK | Costume Designer | ||
| *7* | Brion James | 54 | US | Actor | ||
| *7* | Kazuo Miyagawa | 91 | Japan | Cinematographer | ||
| *9* | Georg Marischka | 77 | Austria | Actor, Director, Screenwriter | ||
| *12* | Ross Elliott | 82 | US | Actor | ||
| *16* | David Allen | 54 | US | Visual Effects Artist | ||
| *16* | Nancy Guild | 73 | US | Actress | ||
| *23* | Norman Wexler | 73 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *27* | Harold Jack Bloom | 75 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *31* | Marguerite Chapman | 81 | US | Actress | ||
| **September** | *9* | Chili Bouchier | 89 | UK | Actress | |
| *9* | Ruth Roman | 76 | US | Actress | ||
| *12* | Harry Crane | 85 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *14* | Charles Crichton | 89 | UK | Director, Film Editor | ||
| *17* | Riccardo Cucciolla | 75 | Italy | Actor | ||
| *17* | Joan Gardner | 84 | UK | Actress | ||
| *17* | Frankie Vaughan | 71 | UK | Singer, Actor | ||
| *18* | Harold F. Kress | 86 | US | Film Editor | ||
| *22* | George C. Scott | 71 | US | Actor | ||
| *23* | Ivan Goff | 89 | Australia | Screenwriter | ||
| *26* | Bernadette O'Farrell | 75 | Ireland | Actress | ||
| **October** | *1* | Noel Johnson | 82 | UK | Actor | |
| *2* | Lee Richardson | 73 | US | Actor | ||
| *5* | Wilt Chamberlain | 63 | US | Actor | ||
| *6* | Maris Wrixon | 82 | US | Actress | ||
| *7* | Deryck Guyler | 85 | UK | Actor | ||
| *7* | Helen Vinson | 92 | US | Actress | ||
| *12* | Jacqueline Malouf | 58 | US | Actress | ||
| *14* | Richard B. Shull | 70 | US | Actor | ||
| *16* | Jean Shepherd | 78 | US | Actor | ||
| *19* | Paddi Edwards | 67 | UK | Actress | ||
| *26* | Hoyt Axton | 61 | US | Singer, Actor | ||
| *26* | Abraham Polonsky | 88 | US | Screenwriter, Director | ||
| *26* | Albert Whitlock | 84 | UK | Visual Effects Artist | ||
| *27* | Lois Collier | 80 | US | Actress | ||
| *27* | Frank De Vol | 88 | US | Composer | ||
| *29* | Cavan Kendall | 57 | UK | Actor | ||
| *30* | Grace McDonald | 81 | US | Actress | ||
| **November** | *3* | Ian Bannen | 71 | UK | Actor | |
| *4* | David Shaber | 70 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *5* | James Goldstone | 68 | US | Director | ||
| *9* | Mabel King | 66 | US | Actress | ||
| *11* | Mary Kay Bergman | 38 | US | Voice Actress | ||
| *14* | Lucile Fairbanks | 82 | US | Actress | ||
| *20* | Adele Balkan | 92 | US | Costume Designer | ||
| *21* | Ralph Foody | 71 | US | Actor | ||
| *24* | Hilary Minster | 55 | UK | Actor | ||
| *25* | William 'Billy' Benedict | 82 | US | Actor | ||
| *27* | Robert F. Shugrue | 62 | US | Film Editor | ||
| *28* | Bethel Leslie | 70 | US | Actress | ||
| **December** | *3* | John Archer | 84 | US | Actor | |
| *3* | Madeline Kahn | 57 | US | Actress | ||
| *5* | Masaru Sato | 71 | Japan | Composer | ||
| *12* | Joseph Heller | 76 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *13* | Daniel M. Angel | 88 | UK | Producer | ||
| *14* | Ernest Walter | 80 | UK | Film Editor | ||
| *17* | Rex Allen | 78 | US | Actor, Singer | ||
| *18* | Robert Bresson | 98 | France | Director | ||
| *19* | Desmond Llewelyn | 85 | UK | Actor | ||
| *20* | Irving Rapper | 101 | US | Director | ||
| *21* | John Arnatt | 82 | UK | Actor | ||
| *21* | Bill Edwards | 81 | US | Actor | ||
| *21* | Bernard Smith | 92 | US | Producer | ||
| *21* | Frank Stanley | 77 | US | Cinematographer | ||
| *23* | Lois Hamilton | 56 | US | Actress | ||
| *25* | Peter Jeffrey | 70 | UK | Actor | ||
| *26* | Pierre Clémenti | 57 | France | Actor | ||
| *26* | Curtis Mayfield | 57 | US | Singer, Composer | ||
| *26* | Michael McDowell | 49 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| *26* | Dick Peabody | 74 | US | Actor | ||
| *29* | Clayton Moore | 85 | US | Actor | ||
| *29* | Harry Monty | 95 | US | Actor, Stuntman |
Film debuts
- Amy Adams − Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Anthony Anderson − Life
- Katie Boland − Striking Poses
- Jay Baruchel − Running Home
- Adam Brody − Random Acts of Violence
- Daniel Brühl − Paradise Mall
- Celso Bugallo − Butterfly's Tongue
- Paddy Considine – A Room for Romeo Brass
- Nicholas D'Agosto - Election
- Émilie Dequenne − Rosetta
- Zooey Deschanel − Mumford
- Garret Dillahunt − Last Call
- Omid Djalili − The Mummy
- Ryan Donowho – Varsity Blues
- Rachel Dratch − Serious Business
- Kevin Durand – Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- Danny Dyer – Human Traffic
- Idris Elba − Belle maman
- Juan Fernández − Alone
- James Franco − Never Been Kissed
- Elia Galera − The Ugliest Woman in the World
- Zach Galifianakis − Flushed
- Kathryn Hahn – Flushed
- Tony Hale − Raging Hormones
- Regina Hall − The Best Man
- Cory Hardrict – Never Been Kissed
- Andrew Howard – Shades
- Hugh Jackman − Paperback Hero
- Dakota Johnson − Crazy in Alabama
- Michael B. Jordan − Black and White
- Shakib Khan − Ananta Bhalobasha
- Chris Klein − Election
- Ashton Kutcher − Coming Soon
- Brie Larson − Special Delivery
- Ali Larter − Varsity Blues
- Mélanie Laurent − The Bridge
- Justin Long − Galaxy Quest
- Taryn Manning − Speedway Junky
- Kate Mara − Random Hearts
- Melissa McCarthy − Go
- Wotan Wilke Möhring – Zoe
- Bobby Moynihan − Nine the Hard Way
- Tamar Novas − Butterfly's Tongue
- Rubén Ochandiano − Flowers from Another World
- Kip Pardue − But I'm a Cheerleader
- Simon Pegg − Tube Tales
- Kal Penn − Freshman
- Piper Perabo − Whiteboyz
- Alison Pill – The Life Before This
- Alysia Reiner – The Stand-In
- Shawn Roberts – Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
- Seann William Scott − American Pie
- Peter Serafinowicz − Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
- Alia Shawkat − Three Kings
- Audrey Tautou − Venus Beauty Institute
- Gabrielle Union − She's All That
- Karine Vanasse − Set Me Free
- Paz Vega − Zapping
- Justus von Dohnányi – Jakob the Liar
- Michael Weston – Getting to Know You
- Ben Whishaw – The Trench
- Rainn Wilson – Galaxy Quest
- Yu Nan – Lunar Eclipse
References
References
- "1999 Worldwide Box Office". [[IMDb]].
- ប្រុសល្មូបចង់ចុយ. "Top 1999 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office".
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