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5th Critics' Choice Awards
The 5th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 24, 2000, honoring the finest achievements of 1999 filmmaking. Top 10 films (in alphabetical order) * '' American Beauty'' * ''Being John Malkovich'' * '' The Cider House Rules'' * '' The Green Mile'' * '' The Insider'' * ''Magnolia'' * '' Man on the Moon'' * ''The Sixth Sense'' * '' The Talented Mr. Ripley'' * ''Three Kings'' Winners * Best Actor: ** Russell Crowe – '' The Insider'' * Best Actress: ** Hilary Swank – '' Boys Don't Cry'' * Best Animated Feature: ** ''Toy Story 2'' * Best Child Performer: ** Haley Joel Osment – ''The Sixth Sense'' * Best Composer: ** Gabriel Yared – '' The Talented Mr. Ripley'' * Best Director: ** Sam Mendes – '' American Beauty'' * Best Family Film: ** '' October Sky'' * Best Feature Documentary: ** '' Buena Vista Social Club'' * Best Foreign Language Film: ** '' All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)'' • Spain * Best Picture: ** '' American Beauty'' * Best Picture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Beauty (1999 Film)
''American Beauty'' is a 1999 American satirical black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, played by Mena Suvari. Annette Bening stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane. Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper, and Allison Janney co-star. Academics have described the film as satirizing how beauty and personal satisfaction are perceived by the American middle class; further analysis has focused on the film's explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption. After being filmed in California from December 1998 to February 1999, ''American Beauty'' was released in North America on September 17, 1999, receiving widespread critical and popular acclaim. It was the second-be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haley Joel Osment In 2001 (cropped)
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Spain
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All About My Mother
''All About My Mother'' ( es, link=no, Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz and Rosa Maria Sardà. The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film '' The Flower of My Secret'' (1995) which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident. ''All About My Mother'' deals with complex issues such as AIDS, homosexuality, faith, and existentialism. The film was a commercial and critical success internationally, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in addition to the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Awards for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Direction (Almodóvar). The film also won six Goya Awards including Best Film, Best Director (Almodóv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buena Vista Social Club (film)
''Buena Vista Social Club'' is a 1999 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba. It is named for a danzón that became the title piece of the album ''Buena Vista Social Club''. The film is an international co-production of Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Cuba. In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. Content The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of Wenders, brought together the ensemble of legendary Cuban musicians to record an album (also called ''Buena Vista Social Club'') and to perform two times with a full line-up: in April 1998 in Amsterdam (two nights) and the 1st of July 1998 in the United States (at the Carnegie Hall, New York City). Although they are geographically close, travel between Cuba and the United States is restricted due to the political tension between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October Sky
''October Sky'' is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the memoir of the same name, tells the true story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of ''Sputnik 1'' in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually became a NASA engineer. ''October Sky'' is based on the lives of four young men who grew up in Coalwood, West Virginia. Principal photography took place in rural East Tennessee, including Oliver Springs, Harriman and Kingston in Morgan and Roane counties. The film was a moderate box office success and received very positive critical reception; it continues to be celebrated in the regions of its setting and filming. Title ''October Sky'' is an anagram of ''Rocket Boys'', the title of the 1998 memoir upon which the film is based. It is also used in a period radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List. That same year, he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain."Sam Mendes gets directing honour" BBC. Retrieved 18 June 2012 In 2008, '''' ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in |
Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films '' Betty Blue'' and '' Camille Claudel''. He later worked on English-language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for his work on ''The English Patient'' (1996) and was nominated for both '' The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999) and '' Cold Mountain'' (2003). Life and career When Yared was 7, his father sent him to an accordion teacher. Two years later Yared stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons. Although he was not necessarily a gifted pianist, Yared was interested in reading music. When Yared was 14, his piano teacher died and Yared replaced him as the organist of Université Saint-Joseph. Yared used the university's library to read the works of Johann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor and voice actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Osment's role in the comedy-drama film '' Forrest Gump'' (1994) won him a Young Artist Award. His breakthrough came with the psychological thriller film ''The Sixth Sense'' (1999), which won him a Saturn Award and earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He achieved further success with the drama film '' Pay It Forward'' (2000), the science fiction film '' A.I. Artificial Intelligence'' (2001) which won him a second Saturn Award, and the comedy film '' Secondhand Lions'' (2003), which won him a Critics Choice Award. Osment has had a long-running role in the '' Kingdom Hearts'' video game franchise, voicing the series' protagonist Sora (2002–present) and the villain Vanitas (2010–2020) in the English versions of the games. He has sporadically appeared on-screen since his ''Secondhand Lions'' role, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toy Story 2
''Toy Story 2'' is a 1999 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The second installment in the ''Toy Story'' franchise and the sequel to ''Toy Story'' (1995), it was directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by Ash Brannon and Lee Unkrich, from a screenplay written by Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, and Chris Webb from a story by Lasseter, Stanton, Brannon, and Pete Docter. In the film, Woody is stolen by a toy collector, prompting Buzz Lightyear and his friends to rescue him, but Woody is then tempted by the idea of immortality in a museum. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Jim Varney, Annie Potts, R. Lee Ermey, John Morris, and Laurie Metcalf reprise their roles from the first ''Toy Story'' film and are joined by Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Estelle Harris, Wayne Knight, and Jodi Benson, who play the new characters introduced in this film. Disney initially envisioned ''Toy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boys Don't Cry (1999 Film)
''Boys Don't Cry'' is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen. The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played in the film by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances. The film co-stars Chloë Sevigny as Teena's girlfriend, Lana Tisdel. After reading about the case while in college, Peirce conducted extensive research for a screenplay, which she worked on for almost five years. The film focuses on the relationship between Brandon and Lana. The script took dialogue directly from archive footage in the 1998 documentary ''The Brandon Teena Story''. Many actors sought the lead role during a three-year casting process before Swank was cast. Swank was chosen because her personality seemed similar to Brandon's. Most of the film's characters were based on real-life people; ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series '' Camp Wilder'' and made her film debut with a minor role in '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1992). She then had her breakthrough for starring as Julie Pierce in '' The Next Karate Kid'' (1994), the fourth installment of ''The Karate Kid'' franchise, and as Carly Reynolds on the eighth season of ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1997–1998). Swank came to international recognition for her performances as Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in Kimberly Peirce's '' Boys Don't Cry'' (1999), and as Maggie Fitzgerald, an aspiring boxer, in Clint Eastwood's ''Million Dollar Baby'' (2004). Both of her performances earned her critical acclaim, and she earned numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was named by ''Time'' as one of the 100 mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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