1999 Movies Closeout Extravaganza!

Last year, I decided to watch as many 1999 films as possible for the 25th anniversary of my favorite year in history. At a certain point, I decided to create a post that included an archive of mini-reviews for every film I had seen from 1999...and at a certain point I decided that this post should be an archive of EVERY movie that was ever released in 1999...meaning that eventually I'd need to watch all of them. Well, I may not have seen all of them yet, and while I will make that a lifetime goal, I have come to the realization that I may never see every 1999 film. There are...a lot of them, and I just received a bitter reminder of my mortality a couple of months ago. However, I have now seen the majority of 1999's films, and certainly the majority of the ones of note. Thus, I am officially bringing this project to a close. Sort of. I'll still add movies if and when I see any of the few 1999 films I've missed. However, as an active project, this is done. Here is a link to the essentially finished archive:
https://thenicsperiment.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-films-of-1999.html

And now, it's time to have a little fun! I think the Oscars suck! I boycott them every year, and if I do see the results, it seems like they always get them wrong. I looked up the results for the 1999 Oscars, and HOLY COW did they get them wrong!!! So wrong, I feel like, just for fun, I should redo the 72nd Academy Awards, originally aired on March 26, 2000, right here and right now (for most of the full-length feature film categories). They even got the nominees wrong, so I'll redo that for them, as well! I'll even put them in alphabetical order. And keep in mind, the winners aren't my favorites in each category--they are what I legitimately think are the best. Let's do this!

Best Picture
Fight Club
The Green Mile
The Matrix (Winner)
Ride With the Devil
The Sixth Sense

Best Directing
Frank Darabont--The Green Mile
David Fincher--Fight Club
Anthony Minghella--The Talented Mr. Ripley
M. Night Shyamalan--The Sixth Sense
The Wachowski's--The Matrix (Winner)

Best Actor In a Leading Role
Matthew Broderick--Election 
Nicolas Cage--8mm
Matt Damon--The Talented Mr. Ripley
Anthony Hopkins--Titus
Edward Norton--Fight Club (Winner)

Best Actress In a Leading Role
Émilie Dequenne--Rosetta (Winner)
Gina McKee--Wonderland
Janet McTeer--Tumbleweeds
Sarah Polley--Guinivere
Reese Witherspoon--Election

Best Actor In a Supporting Role

Robert Carlyle--Ravenous

Tom Cruise--Magnolia

Michael Clarke Duncan--The Green Mile
Haley Joel Osment--The Sixth Sense (Winner)
Alan Rickman--Galaxy Quest

Best Actress In a Supporting Role
Helena Bonham Carter--Fight Club
Toni Collette--The Sixth Sense (Winner)
Angelina Jolie--Girl, Interrupted 
Sophie Marceau--The World Is Not Enough
Amy Morton--8mm

Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Paul Thomas Anderson--Magnolia

M. Night Shyamalan--The Sixth Sense (Winner)

The Wachowskis--The Matrix 

David Howard and Robert Gordon--Galaxy Quest

Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, and Chris Webb--Toy Story 2

Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)
Jim Uhls -- Fight Club, Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk (Winner)
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor-- Election, Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta
Mike Judge--Office Space, Based on The Millton Shorts by Mike Judge
Frank Darabont--The Green Mile, Based on the novel by Stephen King
James Schamus--Ride With the Devil, Based on the novel Woe to Live On, by Daniel Woodrell

Best Music (Original Score)
Don Davis--The Matrix
The Dust Brothers--Fight Club
James Newton Howard--The Sixth Sense
Thomas Newman--The Green Mile
John Williams --Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (Winner)

Best Music (Original Song)
Phil Collins--"Two Worlds" from Tarzan (Winner)

Phil Collins--"You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan

Aimee Mann--"Save Me" from Magnolia

Randy Newman --"When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2

Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 

Best Sound Effects Editing
Dane A. Davis--The Matrix (Winner)

E. Larry Oatfield--The Sixth Sense
Ben Burtt and Tom Bellfort--Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace 

And...I'm tired of doing this...I don't feel like doing best costumes and all that stuff. Awards are subjective and stupid popularity contests, anyway. With that said, The Matrix should have won big at the Oscars, Haley Joel Osment should have easily won Best Supporting Actor instead of Michael Caine, and American Beauty and The Cider House Rules shouldn't have won anything. The end.

If you'd like to see a ranked list of every 1999 film I've seen, in favorite order, where, shockingly, The Matrix is not number one, click the link below. 

https://letterboxd.com/thenicsperiment/list/ranking-every-1999-film/

Thanks for following this project. It took up, quite literally, hundreds of hours of my life. It was one of the most rewarding and enjoyable projects I've yet undertaken for The Nicsperiment. Here's to another year one day that will be as great as 1999!