34th NSFC Awards

January 8, 2000

---- Best Film (tie):
Being John Malkovich
and
Topsy-Turvy

The 34th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2000, honored the best filmmaking of

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Winners

Best Picture

1. '' Being John Malkovich''
1. '' Topsy-Turvy''
3. '' Election''

Best Director

1. Mike Leigh – '' Topsy-Turvy''
2. David O. Russell – '' Three Kings''
3.

Sam Mendes Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 2020 New Year Honour ...

– '' American Beauty''

Best Actor

Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor. He was born in New Zealand, spent ten years of his childhood in Australia, and moved there permanently at age twenty one. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maxi ...

– '' The Insider''
2.

Jim Broadbent James Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor. He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role as John Bayley in the feature film ''Iris'' (2001), as well as winning a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe for hi ...

– '' Topsy-Turvy''
3. Kevin Spacey – '' American Beauty''

Best Actress

1. Reese Witherspoon – '' Election''
2. Hilary Swank – '' Boys Don't Cry''
3.

Kate Winslet Kate Elizabeth Winslet (; born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, and for her portrayals of headstrong and complicated women, she has received numerous accolades, incl ...

– '' Holy Smoke''

Best Supporting Actor

1. Christopher Plummer – '' The Insider''
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman – '' Magnolia'' and '' The Talented Mr. Ripley''
3. Haley Joel Osment – '' The Sixth Sense''

Best Supporting Actress

Chloë Sevigny Chloë Stevens Sevigny (, born November 18, 1974) is an American actress, model, filmmaker and fashion designer. Known for her work in independent films, often appearing in controversial or experimental features, Sevigny is the recipient of se ...

– '' Boys Don't Cry''
2. Julianne Moore – '' Magnolia'', '' Cookie's Fortune'', '' A Map of the World'' and ''

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3. Samantha Morton – '' Sweet and Lowdown''

Best Screenplay

1. Charlie Kaufman – '' Being John Malkovich''
2.

Alexander Payne Constantine Alexander Payne (; born February 10, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for the films ''Citizen Ruth'' (1996), ''Election'' (1999), ''About Schmidt'' (2002), ''Sideways'' (2004), ''The Desc ...

and Jim Taylor – '' Election''
3. Alan Ball – '' American Beauty''

Best Cinematography

Conrad L. Hall Conrad Lafcadio Hall, (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was a French Polynesian-born American cinematographer. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing such films as '' In Cold Blood'', ...

– '' American Beauty''
2. Emmanuel Lubezki – '' Sleepy Hollow''
3. Freddie Francis – '' The Straight Story''

Best Foreign Language Film

1. '' Autumn Tale'' (''Conte d'automne'')
2. '' The Dreamlife of Angels'' (''La vie rêvée des anges'')
3. '' All About My Mother'' (''Todo sobre mi madre'')

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. '' Buena Vista Social Club''
2. '' Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.''
3. '' American Movie''

Experimental Film Award

* Robert Beavers

Special Citation

* James Quandt of Cinematheque Ontario

Film Heritage Awards

#The U.S. theatrical release of the rediscovered camera-negative print of

Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. ...

’s '' Grand Illusion'' by Rialto Pictures. #The newly preserved fiftieth-anniversary re-release of Carol Reed’s '' The Third Man'' by Rialto Pictures. #The U.S. video and DVD release of Gaumont’s original version of

Carl Dreyer Carl Theodor Dreyer (; 3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his movies are noted for their emotional aus ...

’s '' The Passion of Joan of Arc'' by Home Vision and

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. #The television premiere of the four-hour expanded version of

Erich von Stroheim Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. H ...

’s '' Greed'' on Turner Classic Movies.

References

External links

Past Awards
{{NSFC Awards Chron 1999 film awards

2000 in American cinema