Best Picture Winner
American Beauty
Best Picture
Director: Sam Mendes
Studio: DreamWorks
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
All Categories (27)
Best Picture
American Beauty— Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, Producers
Winner
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
Actor In A Leading Role
Denzel Washington— The Hurricane {"Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter"}
Richard Farnsworth— The Straight Story {"Alvin Straight"}
Russell Crowe— The Insider {"Jeffrey Wigand"}
Sean Penn— Sweet and Lowdown {"Emmet Ray"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Haley Joel Osment— The Sixth Sense {"Cole Sear"}
Jude Law— The Talented Mr. Ripley {"Dickie Greenleaf"}
Michael Clarke Duncan— The Green Mile {"John Coffey"}
Tom Cruise— Magnolia {"Frank T.J. Mackey"}
Actress In A Leading Role
Annette Bening— American Beauty {"Carolyn Burnham"}
Janet McTeer— Tumbleweeds {"Mary Jo Walker"}
Julianne Moore— The End of the Affair {"Sarah Miles"}
Meryl Streep— Music of the Heart {"Roberta Guaspari"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Catherine Keener— Being John Malkovich {"Maxine"}
Chloë Sevigny— Boys Don't Cry {"Lana Tisdel"}
Samantha Morton— Sweet and Lowdown {"Hattie"}
Toni Collette— The Sixth Sense {"Lynn Sear"}
Directing
Being John Malkovich— Spike Jonze
The Cider House Rules— Lasse Hallström
The Insider— Michael Mann
The Sixth Sense— M. Night Shyamalan
Writing (Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
The Cider House Rules— John Irving
Winner
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
Winner
Being John Malkovich— Charlie Kaufman
Magnolia— Paul Thomas Anderson
The Sixth Sense— M. Night Shyamalan
Topsy-Turvy— Mike Leigh
Cinematography
American Beauty— Conrad L. Hall
Winner
Sleepy Hollow— Emmanuel Lubezki
Snow Falling on Cedars— Robert Richardson
The End of the Affair— Roger Pratt
The Insider— Dante Spinotti
Music (Original Score)
The Red Violin— John Corigliano
Winner
American Beauty— Thomas Newman
Angela's Ashes— John Williams
The Cider House Rules— Rachel Portman
The Talented Mr. Ripley— Gabriel Yared
Music (Original Song)
"You'll Be In My Heart" from Tarzan— Music and Lyric by Phil Collins
Winner
"Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut— Music and Lyric by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman
"Music Of My Heart" from Music of the Heart— Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
"Save Me" from Magnolia— Music and Lyric by Aimee Mann
"When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2— Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Art Direction
Sleepy Hollow— Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Peter Young
Winner
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
Visual Effects
The Matrix— John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, Jon Thum
Winner
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
Film Editing
The Matrix— Zach Staenberg
Winner
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
Sound
The Matrix— John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, David Lee
Winner
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace— Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Shawn Murphy, John Midgley
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
Sound Effects Editing
The Matrix— Dane A. Davis
Winner
Fight Club— Ren Klyce, Richard Hymns
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace— Ben Burtt, Tom Bellfort
Costume Design
Topsy-Turvy— Lindy Hemming
Winner
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
Winner
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me— Michèle Burke, Mike Smithson
Bicentennial Man— Greg Cannom
Life— Rick Baker
Documentary (Feature)
One Day in September— Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
Winner
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
Documentary (Short Subject)
King Gimp— Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
Winner
Eyewitness— Bert Van Bork
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo— Simeon Soffer, Jonathan Stack
Short Film (Animated)
The Old Man and the Sea— Alexander Petrov
Winner
3 Misses— Paul Driessen
Humdrum— Peter Peake
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts— Torill Kove
When the Day Breaks— Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
Short Film (Live Action)
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York— Barbara Schock, Tammy Tiehel
Winner
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
Foreign Language Film
All about My Mother— Spain
Winner
Caravan— Nepal
East-West— France
Solomon and Gaenor— United Kingdom
Under the Sun— Sweden
Award Of Commendation
To FPC, Incorporated, under the leadership of Barry M. Stultz and Milton Jan Friedman, for the development and implementation of an environmentally responsible program to recycle or destroy discarded motion picture prints.
Winner
JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
To Edmund M. Di Giulio in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
To Takuo Miyagishima in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Honorary Award
To Andrzej Wajda in recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction.
Winner
GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
Roderick T. Ryan
Warren Beatty
Scientific And Technical Award (Scientific And Engineering Award)
To NICK PHILLIPS for the design and development of the three-axis Libra III remote control camera head. The Libra III head can accept a range of film cameras and their lenses and allows the operator to add stabilization to each axis for medium focal length lenses. Motion capture and playback are also selectable features. [Stage Operations]
Winner
To FRITZ GABRIEL BAUER for the concept, design and engineering of the Moviecam Superlight 35mm Motion Picture Camera. The quiet Moviecam Superlight is an extremely small and light 35mm professional motion picture sound camera which allows the cinematographer to film in ways and situations that were never before possible. [Camera]
To HUW GWILYM, KARL LYNCH and MARK V. CRABTREE for the design and development of the AMS Neve Logic Digital Film Console for motion picture sound mixing. This console allows the user multi-position mixing capabilities, stem routing predub inputs and other filmcentric attributes. This is the first fully digital audio mixing console specifically designed for post-production film mixing. [Sound]
To IAIN NEIL for the optical design, RICK GELBARD for the mechanical design, and PANAVISION, INC. for the development of the Millennium Camera System viewfinder. This unique and versatile viewfinder with two independent viewing positions provides a very high-resolution video assist image, greatly enhancing its application for on-set compositing or non-linear editing. [Camera]
To JAMES MOULTRIE for the mechanical design, and to MIKE SALTER and MARK CRAIG GERCHMAN for the optical design of the Cooke S4 Range of Fixed Focal Length Lenses for 35mm motion picture photography. These state-of-the-art fixed focal length 35mm lenses are the result of intense efforts to meet industry requirements in several areas. Providing superior performance in several cinematographic aspects, these lenses include a unique linear focus system. [Lenses and Filters]
To L. RON SCHMIDT for the concept, design and engineering of the Linear Loop Film Projectors. These radically new motion picture film projectors provide superior print handling, image steadiness, screen illumination and enhanced viewer experience by means of an extremely simple air-driven mechanical transport system. [Projection]
To MARLOWE A. PICHEL for development of the process for manufacturing Electro-formed Metal Reflectors which, when combined with the DC Short Arc Xenon Lamp, became the worldwide standard for motion picture projection systems. The impact of the Electro-formed Metal Reflector over the decades has completely changed the presentation side of the motion picture industry allowing the replacement of the carbon arc light source and the implementation of automated projection systems. [Projection]
To NAT TIFFEN of Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation for the production of high-quality, durable, laminated color filters for motion picture photography. Materials of uniform color characteristics are implanted between layers of optical glass and bonded together under extremes of heat and pressure. The outer surfaces are ground and polished to specified close tolerances, free of distortion and resistant to changes in temperature or humidity, then bound with a protective metal ring. [Lenses and Filters]
Scientific And Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award)
To VIVIENNE DYER and CHRIS WOOLF for the design and development of the Rycote Microphone Windshield Modular System. Designed to eliminate physical acoustical rumble and to mask a microphone's high sensitivity to wind and other unwanted noises, the lightweight and rugged Rycote Microphone Windshields accomplish these tasks without altering or impairing the original frequency response of the microphone. [Sound]
Winner
To HOYT H. YEATMAN, JR. of Dream Quest Images and JOHN C. BREWER of the Eastman Kodak Company for the identification and diagnosis leading to the elimination of the "red fringe" artifact in traveling matte composite photography. The elimination of the "red fringe" artifact in traveling matte composite photography obviates expensive additional computerized image processing thus reducing the time involved in producing a seamless and convincing composite shot. [Laboratory]
To LESLIE DREVER for the design and development of the Light Wave microphone windscreens and isolation mounts from Light Wave Systems. Designed to eliminate physical acoustical rumble and to cover a microphone's high sensitivity to wind and other unwanted noises, the Light Wave Systems line of shock mounts and windscreens accomplish these tasks without altering or impairing the original frequency response of the microphone. [Sound]
To RICHARD C. SEHLIN for the concept, and DR. MITCHELL J. BOGDANOWICZ and MARY L. SCHMOEGER of the Eastman Kodak Company for the design and development of the Eastman Lamphouse Modification Filters. The ELM Filters enable a laboratory to achieve additive printer contrast and color reproduction using a subtractive lamphouse. [Lenses and Filters]