1999 National Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Picture

1. Being John Malkovich
1. Topsy-Turvy
3. Election

Best Director

1. Mike Leigh – Topsy-Turvy
2. David O. Russell – Three Kings
3. Sam Mendes – American Beauty

Best Actor

1. Russell Crowe – The Insider
2. Jim Broadbent – Topsy-Turvy
3. Kevin Spacey – American Beauty

Best Actress

1. Reese Witherspoon – Election
2. Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry
3. Kate Winslet – Holy Smoke

Best Supporting Actor

1. Christopher Plummer – The Insider
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman – Magnolia and The Talented Mr. Ripley
3. Haley Joel Osment – The Sixth Sense

Best Supporting Actress

1. Chloë Sevigny – Boys Don't Cry
2. Julianne Moore – Magnolia, Cookie's Fortune, A Map of the World and An Ideal Husband
3. Samantha Morton – Sweet and Lowdown

Best Screenplay

1. Charlie Kaufman – Being John Malkovich
2. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – Election
3. Alan Ball – American Beauty

Best Cinematography

1. Conrad L. Hall – American Beauty
2. Emmanuel Lubezki – Sleepy Hollow
3. Freddie Francis – The Straight Story

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Autumn Tale (Conte d'automne)
2. The Dreamlife of Angels (La vie rêvée des anges)
3. All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. Buena Vista Social Club
2. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
3. American Movie

Experimental Film Award

Special Citation

Film Heritage Awards

1. The U.S. theatrical release of the rediscovered camera-negative print of Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion by Rialto Pictures.
2. The newly preserved fiftieth-anniversary re-release of Carol Reed’s The Third Man by Rialto Pictures.
3. The U.S. video and DVD release of Gaumont’s original version of Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc by Home Vision,Inc. and Criterion.
4. The television premiere of the four-hour expanded version of Erich von Stroheim’s Greed on Turner Classic Movies.