1999: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Election (dir: Alexander Payne)

2. Eyes Wide Shut (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

3. A Moment of Innocence (dir: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; US Release Date)

4. The Talented Mr. Ripley (dir: Anthony Minghella)

5. Limbo (dir: John Sayles)

6. Being John Malkovich (dir: Spike Jonze)

7. American Movie (dir: Chris Smith)

8. The Insider (dir: Michael Mann)

9. Ravenous (dir: Antonia Bird)

10. Fight Club (dir: David Fincher)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): After Life (dir: Hirokazu Koreeda; US release date), All About My Mother (dir: Pedro Almodovar), Bringing out the Dead (dir: Martin Scorsese), Dick (dir: Andrew Fleming), Fucking Amal (dir: Lukas Moodysson) Go (dir: Doug Liman), Holy Smoke (dir: Jane Campion), The Iron Giant (dir: Brad Bird), The Limey (dir: Steven Soderbergh), Man on the Moon (dir: Milos Forman), The Matrix (dir: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski), Rosetta (dir: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne), The Straight Story (dir: David Lynch), Summer of Sam (dir: Spike Lee), and Three Kings (dir: David O. Russell).

Best Film of the Year: Election
Director: Alexander Payne Producers: Albert Berger, David Gale, Keith Samples, Ron Yerxa
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Best Director:
Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
2. Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich
3. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Moment of Innocence
4. Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley
5. Hirokazu Koreeda, After Life

Best Actor:
Al Pacino, The Insider
2. John Leguizamo, Summer of Sam
3. Matt Damon, The Talented Mr. Ripley
4. Matthew Broderick, Election
5. Guy Pearce, Ravenous

Best Actress:
Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
2. Émilie Dequenne, Rosetta
3. Reese Witherspoon, Election
4. Cecilia Roth, All About My Mother
5. Penelope Cruz, Open Your Eyes

Best Supporting Actor:
Christopher Plummer, The Insider
2. John Malkovich, Being John Malkovich
3. Tom Cruise, Magnolia
4. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Talented Mr. Ripley
5. Brad Pitt, Fight Club

Best Supporting Actress:
Nicole Kidman, Eyes Wide Shut
2. Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich
3. Helena Bonham Carter, Fight Club
4. Vanessa Martinez, Limbo
5. Sissy Spacek, The Straight Story

Best Original Screenplay:
Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman
2. All About My Mother – Pedro Almodovar
3. Limbo — John Sayles
4. Ravenous – Ted Griffin
 5. Dick — Andrew Fleming and Sheryl Longin

Best Adapted Screenplay:
 Election – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
2. The Insider – Eric Roth and Michael Mann
3. Eyes Wide Shut – Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael
4. The Iron Giant – Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies
5. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Anthony Minghella

Best Cinematography:
Bringing Out the Dead — Robert Richardson
2. Fight Club — Jeff Cronenweth
3. Holy Smoke — Dion Beebe
4. American Beauty – Conrad L. Hall
5. The Matrix — Bill Pope

Best Original Score:
Ravenous — Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn
2. Fight Club – The Dust Brothers (Michael Simpson and John King)
3. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Gabriel Yared
4. The Straight Story – Angelo Badalamenti
5. Being John Malkovich – Carter Burwell

Best Film Editing:
The Limey — Sarah Flack
2. Bringing Out the Dead — Thelma Schoonmaker
3. Election – Kevin Tent
4. Fight Club – James Haygood
5. Go — Stephen Mirrione

Best Production Design:
Eyes Wide Shut – Les Tomkins, Roy Walker, Lisa Leone and Terry Wells
2. Sleepy Hollow – Rick Heinrichs and Peter Young
3. Being John Malkovich – K.K. Barrett and Gene Serdena
4. The Matrix – Owen Paterson, Lisa Brennan, Tim Ferrier and Marta McElroy
5. Titus – Dante Ferretti and Carlo Gervasi

Best Costume Design:
The Talented Mr. Ripley — Ann Roth and Gary Jones
2. The Matrix — Kym Barrett
3. Sleepy Hollow — Colleen Atwood
4. Titus — Milena Canonero
5. Cruel Intentions — Denise Wingate

Best Visual Effects
The Matrix
2. Fight Club
3. Being John Malkovich

Best Sound
Fight Club
2. The Matrix
3. Any Given Sunday

Best Makeup
Fight Club
2. Sleepy Hollow
3. Topsy-Turvy

Best Documentary Feature:
Chris Smith, American Movie

Best Animated Feature:
Brad Bird, The Iron Giant

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Talented Mr. Ripley

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Anthony Minghella; in alphabetical order): Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon (pictured), Jack Davenport, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jude Law (pictured), Gwyneth Paltrow (pictured), James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, and Celia Weston

Best First Feature: (pictured) Cameron Diaz and John Cusack in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich

RECAP

W I N S :

Eyes Wide Shut — 3,
Being John Malkovich — 2, Election — 2, Fight Club —2, The Insider — 2, The Talented Mr. Ripley — 2, American Movie — 1, Boys Don’t Cry — 1, Bringing Out the Dead — 1, The Iron Giant — 1, The Limey — 1, The Matrix — 1, Ravenous — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Being John Malkovich — 8, Fight Club — 8,
The Talented Mr. Ripley — 7, Election — 5, Eyes Wide Shut — 5, The Matrix — 5, The Insider — 4, Ravenous — 4, Limbo — 3, Sleepy Hollow — 3, A Moment of Innocence — 2, After Life — 2, All About My Mother — 2, American Movie — 2, Bringing Out the Dead — 2, The Iron Giant — 2, Titus — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s