1999 (72nd Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1999 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
Best Picture
Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted, Red Wagon/Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. (USA, Germany)Directing
Art Direction-Set Decoration
Sleepy Hollow, Scott Rudin/American Zoetrope Production; Paramount and Mandalay. (USA, Germany) Art direction by Rick Heinrichs; set decoration by Peter Young.Cinematography
Costume Design
Documentary
(Feature)
One Day in September, Arthur Cohn Production. (Switzerland, Germany, UK) Arthur Cohn and Kevin Macdonald.(Short Subject)
King Gimp, Whiteford-Hadary/University of Maryland/Tapestry International Production. Susan Hannah Hadary and William A. Whiteford.Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
All About My Mother, El Deseo S.A./Renn/France 2 Cinéma Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Spain, France)Makeup
Topsy-Turvy, Simon Channing-Williams Production; USA Films. (UK, USA) Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud.Music
(Original Score)
The Red Violin, Rhombus Media Production; Lions Gate Films. (Canada, Italy, USA, UK, Austria) John Corigliano.(Original Song)
You’ll Be in My Heart from Tarzan, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music and lyric by Phil Collins.Short Films
(Animated)
The Old Man and the Sea, Productions Pascal Blais/Imagica Corp./Dentsu Tech./NHK Enterprise 21/Panorama Studio of Yaroslavl Production. (Russia, Canada, Japan) Alexander Petrov.(Live Action)
My Mother Dreams the Satan’s Disciples in New York, Kickstart Production; American Film Institute. Barbara Schock and Tammy Tiehel.Sound
The Matrix, Matrix Films Pty Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell and David Lee.Sound Effects Editing
Visual Effects
The Matrix, Matrix Films Pty Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley and Jon Thum.Writing
(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)
(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Honorary Award
To Andrzej Wajda in recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction. [ [Statuette]]To FPC, Incorporated, under the leadership of Barry M. Stultz and Milton Jan Friedman, for the development and implementation of an environmentally responsible program to recycle or destroy discarded motion picture prints. [ [Award of Commendaton - Special Award Plaque]]To Edmund M. Di Giulio in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]To Takuo Miyagishima in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific and Technical Award
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Nick Phillips for the design and development of the three-axis Libra III remote control camera head. The Libra III head can accept a range of film cameras and their lenses and allows the operator to add stabilization to each axis for medium focal length lenses. Motion capture and playback are also selectable features.To Fritz Gabriel Bauer for the concept, design and engineering of the Moviecam Superlight 35mm Motion Picture Camera. The quiet Moviecam Superlight is an extremely small and light 35mm professional motion picture sound camera which allows the cinematographer to film in ways and situations that were never before possible.To Iain Neil for the optical design, Rick Gelbard for the mechanical design, and Panavision, Inc. for the development of the Millennium Camera System viewfinder. This unique and versatile viewfinder with two independent viewing positions provides a very high-resolution video assist image, greatly enhancing its application for on-set compositing or non-linear editing.To Huw Gwilym, Karl Lynch and Mark V. Crabtree for the design and development of the AMS Neve Logic Digital Film Console for motion picture sound mixing. This console allows the user multi-position mixing capabilities, stem routing predub inputs and other filmcentric attributes. This is the first fully digital audio mixing console specifically designed for post-production film mixing.To James Moultrie for the mechanical design, and to Mike Salter and Mark Craig Gerchman for the optical design of the Cooke S4 Range of Fixed Focal Length Lenses for 35mm motion picture photography. These state-of-the-art fixed focal length 35mm lenses are the result of intense efforts to meet industry requirements in several areas. Providing superior performance in several cinematographic aspects, these lenses include a unique linear focus system.To 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. The impact of the Electro-formed Metal Reflector over the decades has completely changed the presentation side of the motion picture industry allowing the replacement of the carbon arc light source and the implementation of automated projection systems.To L. Ron Schmidt for the concept, design and engineering of the Linear Loop Film Projectors. These radically new motion picture film projectors provide superior print handling, image steadiness, screen illumination and enhanced viewer experience by means of an extremely simple air-driven mechanical transport system.To Nat Tiffen of Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation for the production of high-quality, durable, laminated color filters for motion picture photography. Materials of uniform color characteristics are implanted between layers of optical glass and bonded together under extremes of heat and pressure. The outer surfaces are ground and polished to specified close tolerances, free of distortion and resistant to changes in temperature or humidity, then bound with a protective metal ring.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Vivienne Dyer and Chris Woolf for the design and development of the Rycote Microphone Windshield Modular System. Designed to eliminate physical acoustical rumble and to mask a microphone’s high sensitivity to wind and other unwanted noises, the lightweight and rugged Rycote Microphone Windshields accomplish these tasks without altering or impairing the original frequency response of the microphone.To Leslie Drever for the design and development of the Light Wave microphone windscreens and isolation mounts from Light Wave Systems. Designed to eliminate physical acoustical rumble and to cover a microphone’s high sensitivity to wind and other unwanted noises, the Light Wave Systems line of shock mounts and windscreens accomplish these tasks without altering or impairing the original frequency response of the microphone.To Richard C. Sehlin for the concept, and Dr. Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz and Mary L. Schmoeger of the Eastman Kodak Company for the design and development of the Eastman Lamphouse Modification Filters. The ELM Filters enable a laboratory to achieve additive printer contrast and color reproduction using a subtractive lamphouse.To Hoyt H. Yeatman, Jr. of Dream Quest Images and John C. Brewer of the Eastman Kodak Company for the identification and diagnosis leading to the elimination of the “red fringe” artifact in traveling matte composite photography. The elimination of the “red fringe” artifact in traveling matte composite photography obviates expensive additional computerized image processing thus reducing the time involved in producing a seamless and convincing composite shot.