1999 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

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Date December 1999		Best Picture The Insider

The 25th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1999, were given in December 1999.

Winners

Best Picture:

The Insider

Runner-up: American Beauty

Best Director:

Sam Mendes – American Beauty

Runner-up: Michael Mann – The Insider

Best Actor:

Russell Crowe – The Insider

Runner-up: Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story

Best Actress:

Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry

Runner-up: Reese Witherspoon – Election

Best Supporting Actor:

Christopher Plummer – The Insider

Runner-up: John Malkovich – Being John Malkovich

Best Supporting Actress:

Chloë Sevigny – Boys Don't Cry

Runner-up: Samantha Morton – Sweet and Lowdown

Best Screenplay:

Charlie Kaufman – Being John Malkovich

Runner-up: Alan Ball – American Beauty

Best Cinematography:

Dante Spinotti – The Insider

Runner-up: Conrad L. Hall – American Beauty

Best Production Design:

Rick Heinrichs – Sleepy Hollow

Runner-up: Dante Ferretti – Titus

Best Music Score:

Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman – South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Runner-up: Gabriel Yared – The Talented Mr. Ripley

Best Foreign-Language Film:

All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) • Spain

Runner-up: The Dreamlife of Angels (La vie rêvée des anges) • France

Best Non-Fiction Film:

Buena Vista Social Club

Runner-up: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Best Animation:

The Iron Giant

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:

Owen Land

New Generation Award:

Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – Citizen Ruth and Election

Career Achievement Award:

Dede Allen

Special Citation:

Rick Schmidlin, Roger Mayer and Turner Classic Movies for their meticulous reconstruction and promotion of Erich von Stroheim's Greed

References

1999 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Wikipedia

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