'99 was pretty damn fantastic, maybe the best year of the 99-06 time period. it's not every year you get movies as life-affirmingly brilliant as american beauty and magnolia and films as uproariously daring and hilarious as south park: bigger, longer, and uncut and election and being john malkovich (which doesn't even make my top 10 list!)
Best Picture
1. American Beauty
2. Magnolia
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
4. Election
5. Fight Club
6. The Talented Mr. Ripley
7. Toy Story 2
8. All About My Mother
9. The Insider
10. Titus
Best Director
1. Sam Mendes for American Beauty
2. P.T. Anderson for Magnolia
3. David Fincher for Fight Club
4. Michael Mann for The Insider
5. Spike Jonze for Being John Malkovich
6. Anthony Minghella for The Talented Mr. Ripley
7. David Lynch for The Straight Story
8. Kevin Smith for Dogma
9. Pedro Almodovar for All About My Mother
10. M. Night Shamaylan for The Sixth Sense
Best Actor
1. Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (period. Best performance of the '90s easy.)
2. Russell Crowe in The Insider
3. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense
4. Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story
5. Jim Broadbent in Topsy-Turvy
6. Edward Norton in Fight Club
7. Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown
8. Terrence Stamp in The Limey
9. Brad Pitt in Fight Club
10. Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley
Best Actress
1. Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry
2. Kate Winslet in Holy Smoke!
3. Reese Witherspoon in Election
4. Julianne Moore in The End of the Affair
5. Cecilia Roth in All About My Mother
6. Annette Bening in American Beauty
7. Elodie Bouchez in The Dreamlife of Angels
8. Franka Potente in Run Lola Run
9. Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project
10. Janet McTeer in Tumbleweeds
Best Supporting Actor
1. Tom Cruise in Magnolia
2. Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley
3. John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich
4. Peter Sarsgaard in Boys Don't Cry
5. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Magnolia
6. Alan Rickman in Dogma
7. Christopher Plummer in The Insider
8. Wes Bentley in American Beauty
9. Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley
10. Jason Robards in Magnolia
Best Supporting Actress
1. Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut (the only Oscar she's ever deserved, but I'd nominate her a whole hell of a lot)
2. Toni Collette in The Sixth Sense
3. Lara Belmont in The War Zone
4. Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich
5. Melora Walters in Magnolia (oddly enough, she appealed to me far more than Julianne, who's my #11...)
6. Cameron Diaz in Being John Malkovich
7. Chloe Sevigny in Boys Don't Cry (I hate Chloe, but she was really good here.)
8. Sarah Polley in Go
9. Mena Suvari in American Beauty (OWNED Thora Birch)
10. Jessica Lange in Titus
Best Screenplay
1. American Beauty
2. Election
3. Being John Malkovich
4. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
5. Fight Club
6. All About My Mother
7. The Talented Mr. Ripley
8. Three Kings
9. Go
10. The Sixth Sense
only 01, 04, and 06 to go? I kind of rule sometimes.
