Screen Source presents:
72nd Annual Academy Awards

Broadcast: Sunday March 26, 2000, 6:00PM P.S.T. (live) on ABC-TV
from the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Host: Billy Crystal
Nominations were announced Tuesday, February 15, 2000
Winners are in red


Picture:

  • American Beauty
  • Cider House Rules, The
  • Green Mile, The
  • Insider, The
  • Sixth Sense, The


    • Actor in a Leading Role:
  • American Beauty - Kevin Spacey
  • Hurricane, The - Denzel Washington
  • Insider, The - Russell Crowe
  • Straight Story, The - Richard Farnsworth
  • Sweet and Lowdown - Sean Penn


    • Actress in a Leading Role:
  • American Beauty - Annette Bening
  • Boys Don't Cry - Hilary Swank
  • End of the Affair, The - Julianne Moore
  • Music of the Heart - Meryl Streep
  • Tumbleweeds - Janet McTeer


    • Actor in a Supporting Role:
  • Cider House Rules, The - Michael Caine
  • Green Mile, The - Duncan, Michael
  • Magnolia - Tom Cruise
  • Sixth Sense, The - Haley Joel Osment
  • Talented Mr. Ripley, The - Jude Law


    • Actress in a Supporting Role:
  • Being John Malkovich - Catherine Keener
  • Boys Don't Cry - Chloë Sevigny
  • Girl, Interrupted - Angelina Jolie
  • Sixth Sense, The - Toni Collette
  • Sweet and Lowdown - Samantha Morton


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


    • Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen:
  • American Beauty - Alan Ball
  • Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman
  • Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Sixth Sense, The - M. Night Shyamalan
  • Topsy-Turvy - Mike Leigh


    • Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published:
  • Cider House Rules, The - John Irving
  • Election - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
  • Green Mile, The - Frank Darabont
  • Insider, The - Eric Roth, Michael Mann
  • Talented Mr. Ripley, The - Anthony Minghella


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


    • Art Direction / Set Decoration:
  • Anna and the King - Luciana Arrighi (art director), Ian Whittaker (set decorator)
  • Cider House Rules, The - David Gropman (art director), Beth A. Rubino (set decorator)
  • Sleepy Hollow - Rick Heinrichs (art director), Peter Young (set decorator)
  • Talented Mr. Ripley, The - Roy Walker (art director), Bruno Cesari (set decorator)
  • Topsy-Turvy - Eve Stewart (art director), John Bush (set decorator)


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


    • Music, Original Score:
  • American Beauty - Thomas Newman
  • Angela's Ashes - John Williams
  • Cider House Rules, The - Rachel Portman
  • Talented Mr. Ripley, The - Gabriel Yared
  • Violon rouge, Le (The Red Violin) (1998) - John Corigliano


    • Short Films, Animated Films:
  • 3 Misses - Paul Driessen
  • Humdrum - Peter Peake
  • My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts - Torill Kove
  • Old Man and the Sea, The - Aleksandr Petrov
  • When the Day Breaks - Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis


    • Short Films, Live Action:
  • Bror, min bror - Henrik Ruben Genz, Michael W. Horsten
  • Killing Joe - Norowzian, Mehdi, Steve Wax
  • Kleingeld - Marc-Andreas Bochert, Lins, Gabriele
  • Major and Minor Miracles - Marcus Olsson
  • My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York - Barbara Schock, Tiehel, Tammy


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


    • Documentary, Features:
  • Buena Vista Social Club - Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
  • Genghis Blues - Roko Belic, Adrian Belic
  • On the Ropes - Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
  • One Day in September - Arthur Cohn, Kevin MacDonald
  • Speaking in Strings - Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster


    • Foreign Language Film:
  • Est-ouest, France
  • Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef , Nepal
  • Solomon and Gaenor, UK
  • Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother), Spain
  • Under solen, Sweden


    • Honorary Award:
  • Andrzej Wajda
    Polish Director Andrzej Wajda has been voted an Honorary Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Wajda was cited by the board as "one of the most respected filmmakers of our time, a man whose films have given audiences around the world an artist's view of history, democracy and freedom, and who in so doing has himself become a symbol of courage and hope for millions of people in postwar Europe."

    Wajda's life story touches on many events of the 20th Century. He was a resistance fighter at 16 following the death of his father, a cavalry officer, in the Katyn forest massacre of 1940. After the war, he studied at the National Film School in Lodz, graduating in 1954. He established himself as a key figure in the new Polish cinema with his first feature film, "A Generation" (1955), a penetrating study of the effects of war on a nation's disillusioned youth. This film and the subsequent "Kanal" (1957) and "Ashes and Diamonds" (1958) form a powerful trilogy of films about the aftermath of World War II.

    Although Wajda has proven himself over the last four decades a versatile and prolific director, turning out romantic films, comedies, epics and dramas, he periodically returns to themes of war that echo his obsession with the futility of heroism and the bitter aftermath of combat. Some of these films include "Lotna" (1959), "Ashes" (1965), and "Landscape after Battle"(1970).

    A battle of a different sort was waged in 1982, after Wajda's controversial "Man of Iron" (1981) was submitted to the Academy for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film. "Man of Iron," a sequel to "Man of Marble" (1977), chronicled the development of the Solidarity Movement in Poland and featured footage of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. The Polish Government belatedly tried to withdraw the film from contention, but the Academy, arguing that the voting process had already begun, refused to drop it and the film was eventually nominated.

    Emblematic of Wajda's later career is "Korczak" (1990), one of the most important European pictures about the Holocaust. It is a moving drama of the legendary pediatrician and educator who wrote under the pen name Janusz Korczak, and who fought a valiant but ultimately tragic battle to protect the 200 children in his care from the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto and deportation to the Treblinka death camp. The film was hailed as "not only one of the great Holocaust films, but a great film, period."

    Wajda's filmography lists 44 films he directed, including three that have been nominated by the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film: "Land of Promise" in 1975, "The Maids of Wilko" in 1979 and "Man of Iron." Wajda has never received an Oscar.

    Honorary Awards in the form of Oscar statuettes, according to Academy rules, may be awarded for "exceptional distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy." Previous honorees include Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Astaire, Greta Garbo, Kirk Douglas, Buster Keaton, Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray and Orson Welles.


    • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award:
  • Warren Beatty
    "In discussing this Award for Warren, our governors stressed his passion for film, for getting it just right," said Academy President Robert Rehme, "and his courage in producing pictures that many other producers might have considered too dangerous to try."

    Beatty is the only person to be nominated for producer, director, writer and actor on a film, "and he did it twice," Rehme said. Beatty received those four nominations for "Heaven Can Wait" in 1978 and again in 1981 for "Reds." (Orson Welles was nominated in the writing, directing and acting categories for "Citizen Kane," and also produced that Best Picture nominee, but in 1941 Best Picture nominations were credited to the production company.)

    "Warren's is an illustrious career of distinguished films and the Academy could not celebrate a more deserving honoree than this artist extraordinaire," said Cinematographers Branch Governor Conrad Hall. Throughout his career, Beatty has been recognized by the Academy for his work as a producer. Of nine films Beatty has produced, he received nominations for Best Picture for four of them, "Bonnie and Clyde," "Heaven Can Wait," "Reds" and "Bugsy." He has received ten additional nominations in other categories. In 1967, he was nominated as an actor for "Bonnie and Clyde," a film which also received a Best Picture nod. In 1975, Beatty produced "Shampoo" and was nominated for its screenplay. Three years later Beatty received his four nominations for "Heaven Can Wait," and duplicated that feat in 1981 with "Reds," for which he received the Oscar for directing. In 1991, in addition to his Best Picture nod, he was nominated for actor in a leading role for "Bugsy" and in 1998, the Academy once again recognized Beatty with a writing nomination for "Bulworth." Beatty's producing credits also include "Dick Tracy" and "Love Affair," in which he starred opposite his real-life wife Annette Bening.


    Gordon E. Sawyer Award:
  • Roderick T. Ryan
     A 40-year veteran of Eastman Kodak, Dr. Ryan served for many years as regional director of engineering services and retired in 1986. He began his career as a World War II naval photographer and was one of the cameramen who photographed the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. Ryan received his Doctorate in communications from the University of Southern California.

    In 1981, the Academy honored Ryan with a "Scientific and Engineering Award" for a film processor specially designed for visual effects as used by optical houses. In 1990, the Academy celebrated Ryan again with a "Medal of Commendation" for "outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy."

    Throughout his career, Ryan has been honored with many awards. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) gave Ryan, a Life Fellow of the Society, two special commendations. An active member of the organization, Ryan served as a governor, treasurer, vice president of photoscience and vice president of motion picture affairs. Ryan also is a Fellow of the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society.

    Established in 1981, the Sawyer Award is "presented to an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." It is named in honor of the veteran sound director who died earlier that year. Ryan is the 14th recipient. The American Society of Cinematographers selected Ryan as an Honorary Member, a special tribute limited to only a few non-cinematographers, including George Eastman, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Neil Armstrong and Gregory Peck. Ryan, who has written numerous books and textbooks that are recognized within the industry as authoritative sources, is featured in Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in Technology.


    Scientific and Technical Awards are given for devices, methods, formulas, discoveries or inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts and sciences of motion pictures and that also have a proven history of use in the motion picture industry.

    Awards may be granted in any of three classifications: Academy Award of Merit (Oscar statuette), for basic achievements that have a definite influence upon the advancement of the industry; Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy plaque), for those achievements that exhibit a high level of engineering and are important to the progress of the industry; and Technical Achievement Award (Academy certificate), for those accomplishments that contribute to the progress of the industry.

    Scientific and Engineering Awards (Academy Plaques):
  • Fritz Gabriel Bauer; for the concept, design and engineering of the Moviecam Superlight 35mm Motion Picture Camera.
  • Huw Gwyllyn, Karl Lynch and MarkCrabtree; for the design and development of the AMS/Neve-Logic Digital Film Console for motion picture sound mixing.
  • James Moultrie, Mike Salter and 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.
  • Iain Neil, Rick Gelbard and Panavision; for the optical (Neil) and the mechanical design (Gelbard) and for the development (Panavision) of the Millennium Camera System viewfinder.
  • Nick Phillips; for the design and development of the three-axis Libra III remote control camera head.
  • 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 Awards (Academy Certificates):
  • Leslie Drever; for the design and development of the Light Wave microphone windscreens and isolation mounts from Light Wave Systems.
  • Vivienne Dyer and Chris Woolf; for the design and development of the Rycote Microphone Windshield Modular System.
  • Richard C. Sehlin, Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz and Mary L. Schmoeger of Eastman Kodak; for the concept (Sehlin), the design and development (Bogdanowicz/Schmoeger) of the Eastman Lamphouse Modification Filters.
  • Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr. (Dream Quest Images) and John C.Brewer (Eastman Kodak); for the identification and diagnosis leading to the elimination of the 'red fringe' artifact in traveling matte composite photography.

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