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(Top) 1 Highest-grossing films 2 Awards 3 1999 films 3.1 By country/region 3.2 By genre/medium 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Film debuts 7 References 8 External links

1999 in film

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The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, the science-fiction film The Matrix, the animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the Best Picture-winner American Beauty, and the well-received The Green Mile. Other noteworthy releases include M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, David Fincher's Fight Club, Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. The year also featured George Lucas' top-grossing Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated their 75th anniversaries in 1999.

Highest-grossing films[edit]

The top 10 films released in 1999 by worldwide gross are as follows:^[1]^[2]

Highest-grossing films of 1999
Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	20th Century Fox	$924,305,084
2	The Sixth Sense	Buena Vista	$672,806,292
3	Toy Story 2	Buena Vista	$511,358,276
4	The Matrix	Warner Bros.	$465,974,198
5	Tarzan	Buena Vista	$448,191,819
6	The Mummy	Universal	$416,385,488
7	Notting Hill	Universal	$363,889,678
8	The World Is Not Enough	MGM / UIP	$361,832,400
9	American Beauty	DreamWorks	$356,296,601
10	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	New Line	$312,383,487

Awards[edit]

Category/Organization	57th Golden Globe Awards January 23, 2000		5th Critics' Choice Awards January 2000	Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards	72nd Academy Awards March 26, 2000	53rd BAFTA Awards April 9, 2000
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	5th Critics' Choice Awards January 2000		72nd Academy Awards March 26, 2000	53rd BAFTA Awards April 9, 2000
Best Film	American Beauty	Toy Story 2	American Beauty
Best Director	Sam Mendes American Beauty					Pedro Almodóvar All About My Mother
Best Actor	Denzel Washington The Hurricane	Jim Carrey Man on the Moon	Russell Crowe The Insider	Kevin Spacey American Beauty
Best Actress	Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry	Janet McTeer Tumbleweeds	Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry	Annette Bening American Beauty	Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry	Annette Bening American Beauty
Best Supporting Actor	Tom Cruise Magnolia		Michael Clarke Duncan The Green Mile	Michael Caine The Cider House Rules		Jude Law The Talented Mr. Ripley
Best Supporting Actress	Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted					Maggie Smith Tea with Mussolini
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Alan Ball American Beauty		Frank Darabont The Green Mile	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Election	John Irving The Cider House Rules	Neil Jordan The End of the Affair
Best Screenplay, Original	Alan Ball American Beauty		Alan Ball American Beauty			Charlie Kaufman Being John Malkovich
Best Animated Film	—	—	Toy Story 2	—	—	—
Best Original Score	The Legend of 1900 Ennio Morricone		The Talented Mr. Ripley Gabriel Yared	N/A	The Red Violin John Corigliano	American Beauty Thomas Newman
Best Original Song	"You'll Be in My Heart" Tarzan		"Music of My Heart" Music of the Heart	N/A	"You'll Be in My Heart" Tarzan	N/A
Best Foreign Language Film	All About My Mother			N/A	All About My Mother

1999 films[edit]

By country/region[edit]

By genre/medium[edit]

Births[edit]

January 1 - Diamond White, American actress
January 4 - Gage Munroe, Canadian actor
January 6 - Eliza Scanlen, Australian actress
January 15 - Miray Daner, Turkish actress
January 18 - Karan Brar, American actor
January 29 - Madison Bailey, American actress
February 3 - Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress
February 7 - Bea Miller, American singer, songwriter and actress
February 10 - Tiffany Espensen, American actress
February 19 - Sonia Ben Ammar, French model, singer and actress
March 5 - Yeri, South Korean singer and actress
March 10 - Bruna Griphao, Brazilian actress
March 25
- Jin Ji-hee, South Korean actress
- Mikey Madison, American actress
April 29 - Morgan Turner, American actress
May 10 - Michael Gandolfini, American actor
May 11 - Sabrina Carpenter, American actress
May 25 - Brec Bassinger, American actress
May 27 - Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress
May 28 - Cameron Boyce, American actor (d. 2019)
May 30 - Sean Giambrone, American actor
June 20 - Kayla Maisonet, American actress
June 26 - Harley Quinn Smith, American actress
June 27 - Chandler Riggs, American actor
July 9 - Claire Corlett, Canadian actress
July 18 - Onni Tommila, Finnish actor
July 30 - Joey King, American actress
August 19 - Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor and musician
August 22
- Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
- Ricardo Hurtado, American actor and singer
September 1 - Jadagrace, American actress, dancer, singer and rapper
September 2 - Gavin Casalegno, American actor and model
September 4 - Ellie Darcey-Alden, English actress
September 7 - Michelle Creber, Canadian actress
September 14 - Emma Kenney, American actress
October 12 - Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician
October 13 - Nell Tiger Free, English actress and singer
October 15 - Bailee Madison, American actress
October 31 - Danielle Rose Russell, American actress
November 10
- Kiernan Shipka, American actress
- Michael Cimino, American actor
November 14 - Jude Wright, English actor
December 7 - Bethany Whitmore, Australian actress

Deaths[edit]

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	4	Iron Eyes Cody	91	US	Actor	Ernest Goes to Camp A Man Called Horse
	9	Harvey Miller	63	US	Screenwriter, Director, Actor	Private Benjamin Bad Medicine
	11	Robert Douglas	89	UK	Actor, Director	The Fountainhead Ivanhoe
	12	Betty Lou Gerson	84	US	Actress	One Hundred and One Dalmatians The Fly
	13	Buzz Kulik	79	US	Director	Riot To Find a Man
	14	Fred Myrow	59	US	Composer	Soylent Green Phantasm
	15	John Bloom	54	US	Actor	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country The Great Outdoors
	15	Betty Box	83	UK	Producer	Doctor in the House Deadlier Than the Male
	19	Michael White	36	UK	Production Designer	Armageddon The Rock
	21	Leslie French	94	UK	Actor	The Living Daylights Orders to Kill
	21	Susan Strasberg	60	US	Actress	Picnic The Manitou
	23	Joe D'Amato	62	Italy	Director, Producer	Troll 2 Ator l'invincibile
	30	Huntz Hall	78	US	Actor	Angels with Dirty Faces Ghost Chasers
	30	Ed Herlihy	89	US	Actor	Pee-wee's Big Adventure The King of Comedy
February	6	Danny Dayton	75	US	Actor	Guys and Dolls Ed Wood
	7	William Ludwig	86	US	Screenwriter	Oklahoma! Interrupted Melody
	7	Bobby Troup	80	US	Actor, Singer	MASH* The Five Pennies
	9	Mary LaRoche	78	US	Actress	Run Silent, Run Deep Bye Bye Birdie
	9	Bryan Mosley	67	UK	Actor	Get Carter Rattle of a Simple Man
	10	Yuri Borienko	66	Russia	Actor	On Her Majesty's Secret Service Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
	17	Sunshine Parker	71	US	Actor	Tremors Road House
	17	Shirley Stoler	69	US	Actress	The Deer Hunter Malcolm X
	20	Gene Siskel	53	US	Film Critic	None; critiqued films for the Chicago Tribune
	24	Derek Nimmo	68	UK	Actor	A Hard's Day Night Casino Royale
	26	Madelon Baker	88	US	Actress	Girls of the Road Gasoline Alley
March	3	Lee Philips	72	US	Actor, Director	Peyton Place Middle of the Night
	4	Del Close	64	US	Actor	Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Untouchables
	4	Eddie Dean	91	US	Singer, Actor	Song of Old Wyoming Stars Over Texas
	5	Richard Kiley	76	US	Actor	Blackboard Jungle The Little Prince
	6	Graham Armitage	62	UK	Actor	The Devils The Boy Friend
	7	Stanley Kubrick	70	US	Director, Screenwriter	2001: A Space Odyssey Barry Lyndon
	8	Peggy Cass	74	US	Actress	Auntie Mame If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
	13	Garson Kanin	86	US	Screenwriter, Director	Adam's Rib Pat and Mike
	14	Kirk Alyn	88	US	Actor	Superman When Worlds Collide
	17	Ernest Gold	77	Austria	Composer	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Judgment at Nuremberg
	20	Mickey S. Michaels	67	US	Set Decorator	The Hunt for Red October Clear and Present Danger
	22	David Strickland	29	US	Actor	Forces of Nature Object of Obsession
	28	Gil Perkins	91	Australia	Actor	Batman Walking Tall
April	4	Faith Domergue	74	US	Actress	This Island Earth Vendetta
	4	Bob Peck	53	UK	Actor	Jurassic Park Lord of the Flies
	9	Albert Popwell	72	US	Actor	Sudden Impact The Enforcer
	13	Don McGuire	80	US	Screenwriter, Director, Actor	Tootsie The Delicate Delinquent
	14	Roy Chiao	72	China	Actor	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Bloodsport
	14	Ellen Corby	87	US	Actress	Vertigo Shane
	14	Anthony Newley	67	UK	Actor, Composer	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Doctor Dolittle
	15	Yasmeen Khan	c. 48	Pakistan	Actress	Yousuf Khan Sher Bano
	16	Rudi Fehr	87	Germany	Film Editor	Dial M for Murder Prizzi's Honor
	16	Zoe Lund	37	US	Actress	Bad Lieutenant Special Effects
	21	Doreen Lang	84	New Zealand	Actress	The Wrong Man The Birds
	21	Buddy Rogers	94	US	Actor	Fascinating Youth Wings
	22	Bert Remsen	74	US	Actor	The Bodyguard Nashville
	28	Rory Calhoun	76	US	Actor	How to Marry a Millionaire River of No Return
	28	John Stears	64	UK	Special Effects Artist	Star Wars Goldfinger
	28	Donald E. Stewart	69	US	Screenwriter	Missing The Hunt for Red October
May	2	Augie Blunt	69	US	Actor	Ghost Life
	2	Oliver Reed	62	UK	Actor	Oliver! Gladiator
	8	Dirk Bogarde	78	UK	Actor	Darling Death in Venice
	8	Ed Gilbert	67	US	Voice Actor	The Little Mermaid Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
	8	Sally Payne	86	US	Actress	I Love You Again City for Conquest
	8	Dana Plato	34	US	Actress	California Suite Exorcist II: The Heretic
	14	Jerry Wunderlich	73	US	Set Decorator	The Exorcist WarGames
	17	Henry Jones	86	US	Actor	Vertigo 3:10 to Yuma
	19	Candy Candido	85	US	Actor	Sadie McKee The Wizard of Oz
	19	John McSweeney Jr.	83	US	Film Editor	Mutiny on the Bounty Million Dollar Mermaid
	19	Alister Williamson	80	Australia	Actor	Battle of Britain The Abominable Dr. Phibes
	21	Vanessa Brown	71	Austria	Actress	The Heiress The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
	21	Norman Rossington	70	UK	Actor	A Hard Day's Night The Longest Day
	25	Hillary Brooke	84	US	Actress	The Man Who Knew Too Much The Enchanted Cottage
June	5	Mel Torme	73	US	Singer, Actor	Good News The Big Operator
	9	Andrew L. Stone	96	US	Director, Screenwriter	Julie Cry Terror!
	11	DeForest Kelley	79	US	Actor	Star Trek Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
	13	Douglas Seale	85	UK	Actor	Aladdin Amadeus
	18	Aimée Delamain	93	UK	Actress	One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing Santa Claus: The Movie
	19	Mario Soldati	92	Italy	Director	The River Girl The Great Appeal
	24	Dorothy Lee	88	US	Actress	Too Many Cooks Laugh and Get Rich
	25	Frank Tarloff	83	US	Screenwriter	Father Goose A Guide for the Married Man
	27	Bobs Watson	68	US	Actor	Boys Town What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	28	John Woolf	86	UK	Producer	Oliver! The Day of the Jackal
	29	Allan Carr	62	US	Producer	Grease Can't Stop the Music
	29	Declan Mulholland	66	Ireland	Actor	Time Bandits Theatre of Blood
	30	Dean Fredericks	75	US	Actor	The Phantom Planet Savage Sam
July	1	Edward Dmytryk	90	Canada	Director, Film Editor	The Caine Mutiny The Young Lions
	1	Sylvia Sidney	88	US	Actress	Sabotage Mars Attacks!
	2	Mario Puzo	78	US	Screenwriter	The Godfather Superman
	4	Ronny Graham	79	US	Screenwriter, Actor	Spaceballs To Be or Not to Be
	4	Jack Watson	84	UK	Actor	Peeping Tom The Hill
	12	Bill Owen	85	UK	Actor	Georgy Girl O Lucky Man!
	17	Donal McCann	58	Ireland	Actor	The Dead Stealing Beauty
	17	Patricia Zipprodt	74	US	Costume Designer	The Graduate 1776
	19	Yoko Tani	70	France	Actress	The Savage Innocents My Geisha
	19	Jerold Wells	90	UK	Actor	Time Bandits Jabberwocky
	20	Sandra Gould	82	US	Actress	Airport Imitation of Life
August	4	Victor Mature	86	US	Actor	Kiss of Death My Darling Clementine
	4	Carl Toms	72	UK	Costume Designer	One Million Years B.C. The Quiller Memorandum
	7	Brion James	54	US	Actor	Blade Runner The Fifth Element
	7	Kazuo Miyagawa	91	Japan	Cinematographer	Yojimbo Rashomon
	9	Georg Marischka	77	Austria	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	The Boys from Brazil The Odessa File
	12	Ross Elliott	82	US	Actor	Tarantula The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
	16	David Allen	54	US	Visual Effects Artist	Young Sherlock Holmes Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
	16	Nancy Guild	73	US	Actress	Somewhere in the Night Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
	23	Norman Wexler	73	US	Screenwriter	Saturday Night Fever Serpico
	27	Harold Jack Bloom	75	US	Screenwriter	The Naked Spur A Gunfight
	31	Marguerite Chapman	81	US	Actress	The Seven Year Itch The Amazing Transparent Man
September	9	Chili Bouchier	89	UK	Actress	To Be a Lady The King's Cup
	9	Ruth Roman	76	US	Actress	Strangers on a Train The Far Country
	12	Harry Crane	85	US	Screenwriter	The Harvey Girls Air Raid Wardens
	14	Charles Crichton	89	UK	Director, Film Editor	A Fish Called Wanda The Third Secret
	17	Riccardo Cucciolla	75	Italy	Actor	Sacco e Vanzetti Attack and Retreat
	17	Joan Gardner	84	UK	Actress	Dark Journey The Scarlet Pimpernel
	17	Frankie Vaughan	71	UK	Singer, Actor	Let's Make Love The Right Approach
	18	Harold F. Kress	86	US	Film Editor	The Towering Inferno The Poseidon Adventure
	22	George C. Scott	71	US	Actor	Patton Dr. Strangelove
	23	Ivan Goff	89	Australia	Screenwriter	White Heat Midnight Lace
	26	Bernadette O'Farrell	75	Ireland	Actress	The Bridal Path The Square Ring
October	1	Noel Johnson	82	UK	Actor	Frightmare For Your Eyes Only
	2	Lee Richardson	73	US	Actor	Prizzi's Honor Prince of the City
	5	Wilt Chamberlain	63	US	Actor	Conan the Destroyer Any Given Sunday
	6	Maris Wrixon	82	US	Actress	The Ape Waterfront
	7	Deryck Guyler	85	UK	Actor	A Hard Day's Night Carry On Doctor
	7	Helen Vinson	92	US	Actress	In Name Only I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
	12	Jacqueline Malouf	58	US	Actress	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Donovan's Reef
	14	Richard B. Shull	70	US	Actor	Klute Splash
	16	Jean Shepherd	78	US	Actor	A Christmas Story It Runs in the Family
	19	Paddi Edwards	67	UK	Actress	The Little Mermaid Hercules
	26	Hoyt Axton	61	US	Singer, Actor	Gremlins The Black Stallion
	26	Abraham Polonsky	88	US	Screenwriter, Director	Body and Soul Force of Evil
	26	Albert Whitlock	84	UK	Visual Effects Artist	The Thing Earthquake
	27	Lois Collier	80	US	Actress	A Night in Casablanca Jungle Woman
	27	Frank De Vol	88	US	Composer	The Dirty Dozen What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	29	Cavan Kendall	57	UK	Actor	Sexy Beast Eureka
	30	Grace McDonald	81	US	Actress	Follow the Boys It Ain't Hay
November	3	Ian Bannen	71	UK	Actor	Braveheart Gandhi
	4	David Shaber	70	US	Screenwriter	The Warriors Nighthawks
	5	James Goldstone	68	US	Director	Rollercoaster When Time Ran Out
	9	Mabel King	66	US	Actress	The Wiz Scrooged
	11	Mary Kay Bergman	38	US	Voice Actress	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Beauty and the Beast
	14	Lucile Fairbanks	82	US	Actress	Passage from Hong Kong A Fugitive from Justice
	20	Adele Balkan	92	US	Costume Designer	The Fly Mighty Joe Young
	21	Ralph Foody	71	US	Actor	Home Alone The Blues Brothers
	24	Hilary Minster	55	UK	Actor	A Bridge Too Far Cry Freedom
	25	William 'Billy' Benedict	82	US	Actor	The Sting The Killing
	27	Robert F. Shugrue	62	US	Film Editor	Two Mules for Sister Sara Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
	28	Bethel Leslie	70	US	Actress	Message in a Bottle Ironweed
December	3	John Archer	84	US	Actor	White Heat Blue Hawaii
	3	Madeline Kahn	57	US	Actress	The Last Picture Show Blazing Saddles
	5	Masaru Sato	71	Japan	Composer	Yojimbo The Hidden Fortress
	12	Joseph Heller	76	US	Screenwriter	Sex and the Single Girl Dirty Dingus Magee
	13	Daniel M. Angel	88	UK	Producer	Reach for the Sky Carve Her Name with Pride
	14	Ernest Walter	80	UK	Film Editor	The Haunting The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
	17	Rex Allen	78	US	Actor, Singer	Hills of Oklahoma The Incredible Journey
	18	Robert Bresson	98	France	Director	A Man Escaped L'Argent
	19	Desmond Llewelyn	85	UK	Actor	James Bond Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	20	Irving Rapper	101	US	Director	One Foot in Heaven The Brave One
	21	John Arnatt	82	UK	Actor	Whistle Down the Wind Our Mother's House
	21	Bill Edwards	81	US	Actor	Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Hail the Conquering Hero
	21	Bernard Smith	92	US	Producer	How the West Was Won Elmer Gantry
	21	Frank Stanley	77	US	Cinematographer	Magnum Force 10
	23	Lois Hamilton	56	US	Actress	Stripes The Cannonball Run
	25	Peter Jeffrey	70	UK	Actor	Midnight Express The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
	26	Pierre Clémenti	57	France	Actor	The Leopard Pigsty
	26	Curtis Mayfield	57	US	Singer, Composer	Super Fly Claudine
	26	Michael McDowell	49	US	Screenwriter	Beetlejuice The Nightmare Before Christmas
	26	Dick Peabody	74	US	Actor	Support Your Local Sheriff! Mackenna's Gold
	29	Clayton Moore	85	US	Actor	The Lone Ranger Black Dragons
	29	Harry Monty	95	US	Actor, Stuntman	Planet of the Apes Papillon