The 72nd Academy Awards | 2000
Best Picture
American Beauty
Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, Producers
The Cider House Rules
Richard N. Gladstein, Producer
The Green Mile
David Valdes and Frank Darabont, Producers
The Insider
Michael Mann and Pieter Jan Brugge, Producers
The Sixth Sense
Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Barry Mendel, Producers
Directing
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
Being John Malkovich
Spike Jonze
The Cider House Rules
Lasse Hallström
The Insider
Michael Mann
The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan
Actor in a Leading Role
Kevin Spacey
American Beauty
Russell Crowe
The Insider
Richard Farnsworth
The Straight Story
Sean Penn
Sweet and Lowdown
Denzel Washington
The Hurricane
Actress in a Leading Role
Hilary Swank
Boys Don't Cry
Annette Bening
American Beauty
Janet McTeer
Tumbleweeds
Julianne Moore
The End of the Affair
Meryl Streep
Music of the Heart
Actor in a Supporting Role
Michael Caine
The Cider House Rules
Tom Cruise
Magnolia
Michael Clarke Duncan
The Green Mile
Jude Law
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Haley Joel Osment
The Sixth Sense
Actress in a Supporting Role
Angelina Jolie
Girl, Interrupted
Toni Collette
The Sixth Sense
Catherine Keener
Being John Malkovich
Samantha Morton
Sweet and Lowdown
Chloë Sevigny
Boys Don't Cry
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)
The Cider House Rules
John Irving
Election
Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
The Green Mile
Frank Darabont
The Insider
Eric Roth, Michael Mann
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Anthony Minghella
Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
American Beauty
Alan Ball
Being John Malkovich
Charlie Kaufman
Magnolia
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan
Topsy-Turvy
Mike Leigh
Film Editing
The Matrix
Zach Staenberg
American Beauty
Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury
The Cider House Rules
Lisa Zeno Churgin
The Insider
William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, David Rosenbloom
The Sixth Sense
Andrew Mondshein
Cinematography
American Beauty
Conrad L. Hall
The End of the Affair
Roger Pratt
The Insider
Dante Spinotti
Sleepy Hollow
Emmanuel Lubezki
Snow Falling on Cedars
Robert Richardson
Art Direction
Sleepy Hollow
Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Peter Young
Anna and the King
Art Direction: Luciana Arrighi; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker
The Cider House Rules
Art Direction: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Beth Rubino
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Art Direction: Roy Walker; Set Decoration: Bruno Cesari
Topsy-Turvy
Art Direction: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Eve Stewart, John Bush
Costume Design
Topsy-Turvy
Lindy Hemming
Anna and the King
Jenny Beavan
Sleepy Hollow
Colleen Atwood
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Ann Roth, Gary Jones
Titus
Milena Canonero
Makeup
Topsy-Turvy
Christine Blundell, Trefor Proud
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" Michèle Burke, Mike Smithson
Bicentennial Man
Greg Cannom
Life
Rick Baker
Visual Effects
The Matrix
John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, Jon Thum
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires, Rob Coleman
Stuart Little
John Dykstra, Jerome Chen, Henry F. Anderson III, Eric Allard
Music (Original Score)
The Red Violin
John Corigliano
American Beauty
Thomas Newman
Angela's Ashes
John Williams
The Cider House Rules
Rachel Portman
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Gabriel Yared
Music (Original Song)
Tarzan
You'll Be In My Heart in "Tarzan" Music and Lyric by Phil Collins
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Blame Canada in "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" Music and Lyric by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman
Music of the Heart
Music Of My Heart in "Music of the Heart" Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Magnolia
Save Me in "Magnolia" Music and Lyric by Aimee Mann
Toy Story 2
When She Loved Me in "Toy Story 2" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Sound
The Matrix
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, David Lee
The Green Mile
Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick, Willie D. Burton
The Insider
Andy Nelson, Doug Hemphill, Lee Orloff
The Mummy
Leslie Shatz, Chris Carpenter, Rick Kline, Chris Munro
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Shawn Murphy, John Midgley
Sound Effects Editing
The Matrix
Dane A. Davis
Fight Club
Ren Klyce, Richard Hymns
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Ben Burtt, Tom Bellfort
Foreign Language Film
All about My Mother
Spain
Caravan
Nepal
East-West
France
Solomon and Gaenor
United Kingdom
Under the Sun
Sweden
Documentary (Feature)
One Day in September
Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
Buena Vista Social Club
Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
Genghis Blues
Roko Belic, Adrian Belic
On the Ropes
Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Speaking in Strings
Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster
Short Film (Live Action)
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York
Barbara Schock, Tammy Tiehel
Bror, Min Bror (Teis and Nico)
Henrik Ruben Genz, Michael W. Horsten
Killing Joe
Mehdi Norowzian, Steve Wax
Kleingeld (Small Change)
Marc-Andreas Bochert, Gabriele Lins
Major and Minor Miracles
Marcus Olsson
Short Film (Animated)
The Old Man and the Sea
Alexander Petrov
Humdrum
Peter Peake
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
Torill Kove
3 Misses
Paul Driessen
When the Day Breaks
Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
Documentary (Short Subject)
King Gimp
Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
Eyewitness
Bert Van Bork
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack