72nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (2000)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Sunday, March 26, 2000
  • For films released in: 1999
  • Nominations Announcement: Tuesday, February 15, 2000
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 72nd Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • American Beauty
    Bruce Cohen [Producer] and Dan Jinks [Producer]
  • The Cider House Rules
    Richard N. Gladstein [Producer]
  • The Green Mile
    David Valdes [Producer] and Frank Darabont [Producer]
  • The Insider
    Michael Mann [Producer] and Pieter Jan Brugge [Producer]
  • The Sixth Sense
    Frank Marshall [Producer], Kathleen Kennedy [Producer] and Barry Mendel [Producer]

Best Directing

  • American Beauty
    Sam Mendes
  • Being John Malkovich
    Spike Jonze
  • The Cider House Rules
    Lasse Hallström
  • The Insider
    Michael Mann
  • The Sixth Sense
    M. Night Shyamalan

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • The Cider House Rules
    Michael Caine
  • The Green Mile
    Michael Clarke Duncan
  • Magnolia
    Tom Cruise
  • The Sixth Sense
    Haley Joel Osment
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Jude Law

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Being John Malkovich
    Catherine Keener
  • Boys Don't Cry
    Chloe Sevigny
  • Girl, Interrupted
    Angelina Jolie
  • The Sixth Sense
    Toni Collette
  • Sweet and Lowdown
    Samantha Morton

Best Foreign Language Film

  • All about My Mother
  • Caravan
  • East-West
  • Solomon and Gaenor
  • Under the Sun

Best Art Direction

  • Anna and the King
    Luciana Arrighi [Art Direction] and Ian Whittaker [Set Decoration]
  • The Cider House Rules
    David Gropman [Art Direction] and Beth Rubino [Set Decoration]
  • Sleepy Hollow
    Rick Heinrichs [Art Direction] and Peter Young [Set Decoration]
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Roy Walker [Art Direction] and Bruno Cesari [Set Decoration]
  • Topsy-Turvy
    Eve Stewart [Art and Set Direction] and John Bush [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • American Beauty
    Conrad L. Hall
  • The End of the Affair
    Roger Pratt
  • The Insider
    Dante Spinotti
  • Sleepy Hollow
    Emmanuel Lubezki
  • Snow Falling on Cedars
    Robert Richardson

Best Costume Design

  • Anna and the King
    Jenny Beavan
  • Sleepy Hollow
    Colleen Atwood
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Ann Roth and Gary Jones
  • Titus
    Milena Canonero
  • Topsy-Turvy
    Lindy Hemming

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • Buena Vista Social Club
    Wim Wenders and Ulrich Felsberg
  • Genghis Blues
    Roko Belic and Adrian Belic
  • On the Ropes
    Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen
  • One Day in September
    Arthur Cohen and Kevin Macdonald
  • Speaking in Strings
    Paola di Florio and Lilibet Foster

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Eyewitness
    Bert Van Bork
  • King Gimp
    Susan Hannah Hadary and William A. Whiteford
  • The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
    Simeon Soffer and Jonathan Stack

Best Film Editing

  • American Beauty
    Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury
  • The Cider House Rules
    Lisa Zeno Churgin
  • The Insider
    William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom
  • The Matrix
    Zach Staenberg
  • The Sixth Sense
    Andrew Mondshein

Best Makeup

  • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Michèle Burke and Mike Smithson
  • Bicentennial Man
    Greg Cannom
  • Lie
    Rick Baker
  • Topsy-Turvy
    Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud

Best Music (Original Score)

  • American Beauty
    Thomas Newman
  • Angela's Ashes
    John Williams
  • The Cider House Rules
    Rachel Portman
  • The Red Violin
    John Corigliano
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Gabriel Yared

Best Music (Original Song)

  • Magnolia "Save Me"
    Aimee Mann [Music and Lyric by]
  • Music of the Heart "Music of My Heart"
    Diane Warren [Music and Lyric by]
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut "Blame Canada"
    Trey Parker [Music and Lyric by] and Marc Shaiman [Music and Lyric by]
  • Tarzan "You'll Be In My Heart"
    Phil Collins [Music and Lyric by]
  • Toy Story 2 "When She Loved Me"
    Randy Newman [Music and Lyric by]

Best Short Film (Animated)

  • 3 Misses
    Paul Driessen
  • Humdrum
    Peter Peake
  • My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
    Torill Kove
  • The Old Man and the Sea
    Alexander Petrov
  • When the Day Breaks
    Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis

Best Short Film (Live Action)

  • Bror, Min Bror (Teis and Nico)
    Henrik Ruben Genz and Michael W. Horsten
  • Killing Joe
    Mehdi Norowzian and Steve Wax
  • Kleingeld (Small Change)
    Marc-Andreas Bochert and Gabriele Lins
  • Major and Minor Miracles
    Marcus Olsson
  • My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York
    Barbara Schock and Tammy Tiehel

Best Sound

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

Best Sound Effects Editing

  • Fight Club
    Ren Klyce and Richard Hymns
  • The Matrix
    Dane A. Davis
  • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
    Ben Burtt and Tom Bellfort

Best Visual Effects

  • The Matrix
    John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley and Jon Thum
  • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
    John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires and Rob Coleman
  • Stuart Little
    John Dykstra, Jerome Chen, Henry F. Anderson III and Eric Allard

Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

  • The Cider House Rules
    John Irving
  • Election
    Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
  • The Green Mile
    Frank Darabont
  • The Insider
    Eric Roth and Michael Mann
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Anthony Minghella

Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

  • American Beauty
    Alan Ball
  • Being John Malkovich
    Charlie Kaufman
  • Magnolia
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  • The Sixth Sense
    M. Night Shyamalan
  • Topsy-Turvy
    Mike Leigh
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