Mar 26, 2000
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards were presented on March 26, 2000 in the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
"American Beauty" was the Oscar darling for 1999 taking five major awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
Billy Crystal hosted the year that 55 Oscars were taken from a warehouse and later found in a dumpster.
72nd Academy Awards Winners
| Best Picture | |
| American Beauty |    |
| Bruce Cohen; Dan Jinks | |
| Other Nominees: The Cider House Rules; The Green Mile; The Insider; The Sixth Sense | |
| Best Actor | |
| Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) | |
| Other Nominees: Russell Crowe (The Insider); Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story); Sean Penn (Sweet and Lowdown); Denzel Washington (The Hurricane) | |
| Best Actress | |
| Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) | |
| Other Nominees: Annette Bening (American Beauty); Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds); Julianne Moore (The End of the Affair); Meryl Streep (Music of the Heart) | |
| Best Director | |
| Sam Mendes (American Beauty) | |
| Other Nominees: Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich); Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules); Michael Mann (The Insider); M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) | |
| Best Supporting Actor | |
| Michael Caine (Cider House Rules) |  |
| Other Nominees: Tom Cruise (Magnolia); Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile); Jude Law (The Talented Mr Ripley); Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) | |
| Best Supporting Actress | |
| Angelina Jolie (Girl Interrupted) | |
| Other Nominees: Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense); Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich); Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown); Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry) | |
| Writing | |
| The Cider House Rules | |
| John Irving | |
| Other Nominees: Election; The Green Mile; The Insider; The Talented Mr Ripley | |
| Writing | |
| American Beauty | |
| Alan Ball | |
| Other Nominees: Being John Malkovich; Magnolia; The Sixth Sense; Topsy-Turvy | |
| Art Direction | |
| Sleepy Hollow |  |
| Rick Heinrichs | |
| Other Nominees: Anna and the King; The Cider House Rules; The Talented Mr Ripley; Topsy-Turvy | |
| Cinematography | |
| American Beauty | |
| Conrad L Hall | |
| Other Nominees: The End of the Affair; The Insider; Sleepy Hollow; Snow Falling On Cedars | |
| Film Editing | |
| The Matrix | |
| Zach Staenberg | |
| Other Nominees: American Beauty; The Cider House Rules; The Insider; The Sixth Sense | |
| Documentary Feature | |
| One Day In September | |
| Arthur Cohn; Kevin Macdonald | |
| Other Nominees: Buena Vista Social Club; Genghis Blues; On the Ropes; Speaking In Strings | |
| Documentary Short | |
| King Gimp | |
| Susan Hannah Hadary; William A Whiteford | |
| Other Nominees: Eyewitness; The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo | |
| Foreign Language Film | |
| All About My Mother |  |
| Other Nominees: Caravan; East-West; Solomon and Gaenor; Under the Sun | |
| Short Subject Animated | |
| The Old Man And The Sea | |
| Alexander Petrov | |
| Other Nominees: Humdrum; My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts; 3 Misses; When the Day Breaks | |
| Short Subject Live Action | |
| My Mother Dreams The Satan's Disciples In New York | |
| Barbara Schock & Tammy Tiehel | |
| Other Nominees: Bror Min Bror; Killing Joe; Kleingeld; Major And Minor Miracles | |
| Costume Design | |
| Topsy-Turvy | |
| Lindy Hemming | |
| Other Nominees: Anna and the King; Sleepy Hollow; The Talented Mr Ripley; Titus | |
| Makeup | |
| Topsy-Turvy | |
| Christine Blundell | |
| Other Nominees: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; Bicentennial Man; Life | |
| Sound Editing | |
| The Matrix | |
| Dane A Davis | |
| Other Nominees: Fight Club; Star Wars Episode I | |
| Sound Mixing | |
| The Matrix | |
| John Reitz; Gregg Rudloff; David Campbell; David Lee | |
| Other Nominees: The Green Mile; The Insider; The Mummy; Star Wars Episode I | |
| Visual Effects | |
| The Matrix | |
| John Gaeta; Janek Sirrs; Steve Courtley; Jon Thum | |
| Other Nominees: Star Wars Espisode I; Stuart Little | |
| Original Score | |
| The Red Violin | |
| John Corigliano | |
| Other Nominees: American Beauty; Angela's Ashes; The Cider House Rules; The Talented Mr Ripley | |
| Original Song | |
| You'll Be In My Heart (Tarzan) | |
| Phil Collins | |
| Other Nominees: Blame Canada (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut); Music of My Heart (Music of the Heart); Save Me (Magnolia); When She Loved Me (Toy Story 2) | |
| Special Award | |
| Andrzej Wajda (Five decades of extraordinary film direction) | |
| Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award | |
| Warren Beatty | |
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