The year 1999 in film involved some significant events, and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films including Star Wars Episode I, The Sixth Sense, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan, The Mummy, and the highly acclaimed American Beauty were released.

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was awarded to All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain/France. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)

Events

• April 17 - Star Wars fans begin lining up at movie theaters in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
• November 18 - Toy Story 2, a sequel to the 1995 film Toy Story, is released in theaters across the United States. The movie is released in the United Kingdom in February 2000.

Top grossing films

Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 1999; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten films of 1999 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

In total 41 films gross more than $100,000,000 and 6 films grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status, the first time that over five films released in one year reached IBMP status (Only 4 films released in 1990 made IBMP status).

For a complete list of 1999's top-grossing films, follow these links:

• • Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1999&p=.htm
  • U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1999&p=.htm
  • United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
  • Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com.au/

Awards

Academy Awards

Best Picture: American Beauty

Best Director: Sam Mendes - American Beauty

Best Actor: Kevin Spacey - American Beauty

Best Actress: Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules

Best Supporting Actress: Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted

Best Foreign Language Film: All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain / France

Golden Globe Awards

Drama

Best Picture: American Beauty

Best Actor: Denzel Washington - The Hurricane

Best Actress: Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry

Musical or comedy

Best Picture: Toy Story 2

Best Actor: Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon

Best Actress: Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds

Other

Best Director: Sam Mendes - American Beauty

Best Foreign Language Film: All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre), Spain / France

BAFTA Awards

Best Picture: American Beauty

Best Actor: Kevin Spacey

Best Actress: Annette Bening

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Rosetta, directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, France / Belgium

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao), directed by Zhang Yimou, China

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick, Canada / U.S.A.

Films released in 1999

#

• 8mm
• 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger
• The 13th Warrior
• 200 Cigarettes

A

• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
• After Stonewall
• All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
• American Beauty
• American Pie, directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz
• Analyze This
• Annie
• Anywhere but Here
• Arlington Road
• Ashes to Ashes
• The Astronaut's Wife
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, directed by Jay Roach

B

• Babar: King of the Elephants
• Baby Geniuses
• The Bachelor
• Bats
• Beautiful People
• Being John Malkovich
• The Best Man
• Better Than Chocolate
• Beyond the Mat
• Bicentennial Man
• Big Daddy, directed by Dennis Dugan
• The Big Kahuna
• Black and White
• Blast from the Past
• Blue Streak
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Boondock Saints
• The Bone Collector
• Bowfinger
• Boys Don't Cry
• Breakfast of Champions
• Bringing Out the Dead
• But I'm a Cheerleader

C

• Chill Factor
• Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000, directed by David Orr
• Chutney Popcorn
• The Cider House Rules
• Coming Soon
• The Corruptor
• Cradle Will Rock
• Crazy in Alabama
• The Crimson Code
• Cruel Intentions
• The Cup

D

• The Debt Collector
• Deep Blue Sea
• The Deep End of the Ocean
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
• Detroit Rock City
• Dick
• Dill Scallion
• Dogma, directed by Kevin Smith
• The Dogwalker
• Double Jeopardy'
• Dudley Do-Right, starring Brendan Fraser, narrated by Corey Burton, based on the characters by Jay Ward, directed by Hugh Wilson
• The Duke

E

• EDtv, directed by Ron Howard
• Election
• El Intruso
• The End of the Affair
• End of Days
• Entrapment
• Entropy
• eXistenZ
• Eye of the Beholder
• Eyes Wide Shut

F

• Fantasia 2000
• Fight Club
• The Five Senses
• The Florentine
• A Force More Powerful
• Friends & Lovers
• For Love of the Game
• Forces of Nature

G

• Galaxy Quest
• Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• Ghost in Love
• Girl, Interrupted
• Godzilla 2000: Millennium
• Gone To Maui
• The Green Mile
• Grey Owl
• Guinevere

H

• The Haunting
• Held Up
• The Hi-Line
• Holy Smoke!
• House on Haunted Hill
• The Hurricane

I

• Idle Hands
• The Insider
• In Dreams
• In Too Deep
• Inspector Gadget, starring Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick and Dabney Coleman, voices by D.L. Hughley, performed by Youngstown (band), directed by David Kellogg
• Instinct
• The Iron Giant, voices by Vin Diesel, Jennifer Aniston and Christopher McDonald, directed by Brad Bird

J

• Jawbreaker
• Joe the King
• Just a Little Harmless Sex
• Just the Ticket

K

• K-911
• The King and I
• Kiss Toledo Goodbye

L

• Lake Placid
• Liberty Heights
• Light It Up
• The Loss of Sexual Innocence
• Lost & Found
• Love Stinks
• Lycanthrope

M

• Magnolia
• Man of the Century
• Man on the Moon
• A Map of the World
• The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
• The Matrix
• Message in a Bottle
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
• Mickey Blue Eyes
• The Mod Squad
• Mumford
• The Mummy
• Muppets from Space
• The Muse
• Music of the Heart
• My Favorite Martian
• My Life So Far
• My Voyage to Italy (documentary)
• Mystery Alaska
• Mystery Men

N

• Never Been Kissed
• New Waterford Girl
• Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao)
• Notting Hill

O

• October Sky
• Office Space
• The Other Sister
• Our Friend, Martin
• The Omega Code

P

• Payback
• Pitch People (1999 film)
• Play It to the Bone
• Pokemon: The First Movie
• Propaganda
• Pushing Tin

Q

R

• The Rage: Carrie 2
• Random Hearts
• Rites of Passage
• Rogue Trader
• Rosetta
• Runaway Bride

S

• She's All That
• Shiri
• Shower (film) (Xizao)
• Simply Irresistible
• The Sixth Sense
• Sleeping Beauties
• Sleepy Hollow
• A Slipping-Down Life
• Snow Falling on Cedars
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• Speedway Junky
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Stigmata
• Stir of Echoes
• The Story of Us
• Swing
• The Straight Story

T

• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Tarzan, voices by Minnie Driver, Rosie O'Donnell, Glenn Close and Wayne Knight, performed by Phil Collins, directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck
• Tea With Mussolini
• Teaching Mrs. Tingle
• The Thirteenth Floor
• The Thirteenth Year
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Three Kings
• Three Seasons
• Three to Tango
• Titus
• Toy Story 2
• Trick
• Trippin'
• True Crime
• Tube Tales
• Tumbleweeds

U

• Universal Soldier: The Return

V

• Varsity Blues
• Virus
• The Virgin Suicides

W

• Wakko's Wish
• Walking Across Egypt
• The War Zone
• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
• Why Not Me? (Pourquoi pas moi?)
• Wild Wild West
• Wing Commander
• The Winslow Boy
• The Wood
• The World Is Not Enough

X

Y

• Yellow Hair

Z

Wide-release movies

January-March

• January 1999
• January 1
• January 8
• January 15
• January 22
• January 29
• February 1999
• February 5
• February 12
• February 19
• February 26
• March 1999
• March 5
• March 12
• March 19
• March 26

April-June

• April 1999
• April 2 - Cookie's Fortune, The Out-of-Towners, A Walk on the Moon
• April 9 - Go, Never Been Kissed
• April 16 - Life, Friends & Lovers
• April 23 - Lost & Found, Pushing Tin
• April 30 - Idle Hands
• May 1999
• May 7 - The Mummy, Election
• May 14 - Endurance, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• May 19- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• May 21 - The Love Letter
• May 28 - Notting Hill, The Thirteenth Floor
• June 1999
• June 4 - Instinct
• June 11 - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
• June 18 - The General's Daughter, An Ideal Husband, Tarzan
• June 25 - Big Daddy
• June 30 - South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Wild Wild West

July-September

• July 1999
• July 9 - American Pie, Arlington Road
• July 16 Eyes Wide Shut, Lake Placid, The Wood
• July 23 - Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Haunting, Inspector Gadget
• July 28 - Deep Blue Sea
• July 30 - The Blair Witch Project, Runaway Bride
• August 1999
• August 4 - Dick
• August 6 - The Iron Giant, Mystery Men, The Sixth Sense, The Thomas Crown Affair
• August 13 - Bowfinger, Brokedown Palace, Detroit Rock City
• August 20 - Mickey Blue Eyes, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Universal Soldier: The Return
• August 25 - In Too Deep
• August 27 - The 13th Warrior, The Astronaut's Wife, Dudley Do-Right, The Muse
• September 1999
• September 1 - Chill Factor, Outside Providence
• September 10 - Love Stinks, Stigmata, Stir of Echoes
• September 17 - Blue Streak, For Love of the Game
• September 24 - Double Jeopardy

October-December

• October 1999
• October 1 - The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, American Beauty, Mystery, Alaska, The Minus Man
• October 8 - Random Hearts
• October 15 - Fight Club, The Story of Us
• October 22 - Bats, Bringing Out the Dead, Crazy in Alabama, Three to Tango
• October 29 - House on Haunted Hill, Music of the Heart

*November 1999

• November 5 - The Bachelor, The Bone Collector
• November 10 - Pokemon: The First Movie
• November 12 - Anywhere but Here, Dogma, Light It Up, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
• November 19 - Liberty Heights, Sleepy Hollow, The World Is Not Enough
• November 24 - End of Days, Flawless, Mansfield Park, Toy Story 2
• December 1999
• December 10 - The Cider House Rules (film), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. The Green Mile, Ride with the Devil
• December 17 - Bicentennial Man, Stuart Little
• December 21 - Wakko's Wish
• December 22 - Any Given Sunday
• December 25 - Galaxy Quest, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Births

Deaths

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