THE OSCAR WINNERS 2000

Best Picture American Beauty

Best Director Sam Mendes, American Beauty

Best Actor Kevin Spacey, American Beauty

Best Actress Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry

Best Supporting Actor Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules

Best Supporting Actress Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted

Best Adapted Screenplay The Cider House Rules, John Irving

Best Original Screenplay American Beauty, Alan Ball

Best Foreign Film All About My Mother, Spain

Best Art Direction Sleepy Hollow, Rick Heinrichs (art direction) and Peter Young (set decoration)

Best Cinematography American Beauty, Conrad L. Hall

Best Original Song You'll Be in My Heart from Tarzan, Phil Collins

Best Original Score The Red Violin, John Corigliano

Best Sound The Matrix

Best Sound Effects Editing The Matrix

Best Costume Design Topsy-Turvy

Best Visual Effects The Matrix

Best Documentary Feature One Day in September

Best Documentary (Short Subject) King Gimp

Best Film Editing The Matrix

Best Makeup Topsy-Turvy

Best Animated Short Film The Old Man and the Sea

Best Live Action Short Film My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York

A list of the nominees for the 72nd Annual Academy Awards.

BEST PICTURE
American Beauty, DreamWorks
The Cider House Rules, Miramax
The Green Mile, Warner Bros
The Insider, Buena Vista
The Sixth Sense,

BEST ACTOR
Russell Crowe, The Insider
Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story
Sean Penn, Sweet and Lowdown
Kevin Spacey, American Beauty
Denzel Washington, The Hurricane

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening, American Beauty
Janet McTeer, Tumbleweeds
Julianne Moore, The End of the Affair
Meryl Streep, Music of the Heart
Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Toni Collette, The Sixth Sense
Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted
Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich
Samantha Morton, Sweet and Lowdown
Chloe Sevigny, Boys Don't Cry

BEST DIRECTOR
Sam Mendes, American Beauty'
Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich
Lasse Hallstrom, The Cider House Rules
Michael Mann, The Insider
M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense

BEST SCREENPLAY FROM PRODUCED OR PUBLISHED MATERIAL
The Cider House Rules, screenplay by John Irving
Election, screenplay by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
The Green Mile, written for the screen by Frank Darabont
The Insider, written by Eric Roth and Michael Mann
The Talented Mr. Ripley, screenplay by Anthony Minghella

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Beauty, written by Alan Ball
Being John Malkovich, written by Charlie Kaufman
Magnolia, written by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Sixth Sense, written by M. Night Shyamalan
Topsy-Turvy, written by Mike Leigh

ART DIRECTION
Anna and the King, art direction, Luciana Arrighi; set decoration, Ian
Whittaker
The Cider House Rules, art direction, David Gropman; set decoration, Beth
Rubino
Sleepy Hollow, art direction, Rick Heinrichs; set decoration, Peter Young
The Talented Mr. Ripley, art direction, Roy Walker; set decoration, Bruno
Cesari
Topsy-Turvy, art direction, Eve Stewart; set decoration, John Bush

CINEMATOGRAPHY
American Beauty, Conrad Hall
The End of the Affair, Roger Pratt
The Insider, Dante Spinotti
Sleepy Hollow, Emmanuel Lubezki
Snow Falling on Cedars, Robert Richardson