6th annual cadet film awards 1999

best picture
The Matrix
All About My Mother
American Beauty
The Sixth Sense
The Talented Mr Ripley

best director
Anthony Minghella – The Talented Mr Ripley
Pedro Almodovar – All About My Mother
M. NIght Shyamalan – The Sixth Sense
Sam Mendes – American Beauty
David O. Russell – Three Kings

best actor, leading role
Russell Crowe – The Insider
Jim Carrey – Man on The Moon
Matt Damon – The Talented Mr Ripley
Edward Norton – Fight Club
Kevin Spacey – American Beauty

best actress, leading role
Hilary Swank – Boys Don’t Cry
Cecilia Roth – All About My Mother
Julianne Moore – The End of The Affair
Kate Winslet – Holy Smoke
Reese Witherspoon – Election

best actor, supporting role
Jude Law – The Talented Mr Ripley
Wes Bentley – American Beauty
Al Pacino – The Insider
Haley Joel Osment – The Sixth Sense
John Malkovich – Being John Malkovich

best actress, supporting role
Toni Collette – The Sixth Sense
Nicole Kidman – Eyes Wide Shut
Catherine Keener – Being John Malkovich
Gwyneth Paltrow – The Talented Mr Ripley
Antonia San Juan – All About My Mother

best performance in a limited or cameo role
Bruce McGill (as Ron Motley) – The Insider
Jack Davenport (as Peter Smith-Kingsley) – The Talented Mr Ripley
Nora Dunn (as Adriana Cruz) – Three Kings
Gloria Foster (as The Oracle) – The Matrix
Pam Grier (as Carol) – Holy Smoke

best adapted screenplay
Michael Mann, Eric Roth – The Insider
Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor – Election
Stanley Kubrick, Frederick Raphael – Eyes Wide Shut
Oliver Parker – An Ideal Husband
Anthony Minghella – The Talented Mr Ripley

best original screenplay
Pedro Almodovar – All About My Mother
Alan Ball – American Beauty
Charlie Kaufman – Being John Malkovich
John August – Go
M. Night Shyamalan – The Sixth Sense

best original dramatic score
Rachel Portman – The Cider House Rules
Thomas Newman – American Beauty
Jocelyn Pook – Eyes Wide Shut
John Corigliano – The Red Violin
Gabriel Yared – The Talented Mr Ripley

best original comedy/musical score
Charlie Mole – An Ideal Husband
Carter Burwell – Being John Malkovich
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil – Run Lola Run
Randy Newman – Toy Story 2
Carter Burwell – Three Kings

best original song
“The Great Beyond” – Man on The Moon
“Beautiful Stranger” – Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
“Save Me” – Magnolia
“Blame Canada” – South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
“Lullaby For Cain” – The Talented Mr Ripley

best titles sequence
The Talented Mr Ripley
Fight Club
Holy Smoke
The Matrix
Run Lola Run

best foreign language film
All About My Mother (Spain)
Black Cat White Cat (Yugoslavia)
The Emperor and The Assassin (China)
The Red Violin (Canada)
Run Lola Run (Germany)

best cinematography
Robert Richardson – Snow Falling on Cedars
Conrad L. Hall – American Beauty
Roger Pratt – The End of The Affair
Tak Fujimoto – The Sixth Sense
John Seale – The Talented Mr Ripley

best film editing
Zach Staenberg – The Matrix
Jim Haygood – Fight Club
William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell – The Insider
Andrew Mondshein – The Sixth Sense
Walter Murch – The Talented Mr Ripley

best production design
Dante Ferretti – Titus
David Gropman – The Cider House Rules
Anthony Pratt – The End of The Affair
Rick Heinrichs – Sleepy Hollow
Francois Seguin – The Red Violin

best costume design
Milena Canonero – Titus
Caroline Harris – An Ideal Husband
Kym Barrett – The Matrix
Colleen Atwood – Sleepy Hollow
Ann Roth, Gary Jones – The Talented Mr Ripley

best sound
The Matrix
The Insider
The Sixth Sense
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Talented Mr Ripley

best makeup/hairstyling
The Matrix
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Man on The Moon
The Sixth Sense
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

best sound effects editing
The Matrix
Fight Club
Sleepy Hollow
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Three Kings

best visual effects
The Matrix
Being John Malkovich
Magnolia
Sleepy Hollow
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

best australian film
Holy Smoke
R/U Two Hands
best debut
Wes Bentley for his performance in American Beauty
Erykah Badu for her performance in The Cider House Rules
Spike Jonze for directing his first feature Being John Malkovich
Chris Klein for his performance in Election
Sam Mendes for directing his first feature American Beauty

best documentary
Buena Vista Social Club
R/U Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
top ten scenes (alphabetical order)
Manuela and Esteban in The Rain – All About My Mother
The Plastic Bag – American Beauty
Malkovich, Malkovich – Being John Malkovich
The House – The Blair Witch Project
Before the Orgy – Eyes Wide Shut
The IKEA Catalogue – Fight Club
The Frogs – Magnolia
The Agents Try to Apprehend Trinity – The Matrix (winner)
Kung-Fu – The Matrix
Marge and Tom Confront Each Other – The Talented Mr Ripley

multiple winners tallies:
The Matrix – 7

The Insider – 3
The Talented Mr Ripley – 3

All About My Mother – 2
Titus – 2

nominations tallies:
The Talented Mr Ripley – 15

The Matrix – 11

American Beauty – 10

The Sixth Sense – 9

All About My Mother – 7
Being John Malkovich – 7

Fight Club – 5
The Insider – 5
Three Kings – 5

Eyes Wide Shut – 4
Holy Smoke – 4
Sleepy Hollow – 4

The Cider House Rules – 3
Election – 3
The End of The Affair – 3
An Ideal Husband – 3
Magnolia – 3
Man on The Moon – 3
The Red Violin – 3
Run Lola Run – 3
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace – 3

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me – 2
Snow Falling on Cedars – 2
Titus – 2