Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

4th Annual Cinema-Scene Awards

1999

Best Picture
#1: American Beauty (dir: Sam Mendes)
#2: The Talented Mr. Ripley (dir: Anthony Minghella)
#3: The Insider (dir: Michael Mann)
#4: Eyes Wide Shut (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
 #5: Toy Story 2 (dir: John Lasseter)
 #6: Limbo (dir: John Sayles)
 #7: Election (dir: Alexander Payne)
 #8: Being John Malkovich (dir: Spike Jonze)
 #9: Magnolia (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)
 #10: All About My Mother (dir: Pedro Almodóvar)

Honorable Mentions: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (dir: Trey Parker), Topsy-Turvy (dir: Mike Leigh), 42 Up (dir: Michael Apted), After Life (dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda), Boys Don't Cry (dir: Kimberly Pierce), The Limey (dir: Steven Soderbergh), The Straight Story (dir: David Lynch), The War Zone (dir: Tim Roth), The Matrix (dir: Larry and Andy Wachowski), Fight Club (dir: David Fincher), Run Lola Run (dir: Tom Tykwer), Three Kings (dir: David O. Russell), One Day in September (dir: Kevin Macdonald), Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (dir: Errol Morris), The Dreamlife of Angels (dir: Erick Zonca), Ratcatcher (dir: Lynne Ramsay), Sweet and Lowdown (dir: Woody Allen), Titus (dir: Julie Taymor), The Iron Giant (dir: Brad Bird), American Movie (dir: Chris Smith), The Mayfair Set (dir: Adam Curtis), Autumn Tale (dir: Eric Rohmer), The Cider House Rules (dir: Lasse Hallstrom), eXistenZ (dir: David Cronenberg), Snow Falling on Cedars (dir: Scott Hicks), L'Humanité (dir: Bruno Dumont), Princess Mononoke (dir: Hiyao Miyazaki), The Last Days (dir: James Moll), Inherit the Wind (dir: Daniel Petrie), and Bringing Out the Dead (dir: Martin Scorsese).

Best Director
#1: Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
#2: Michael Mann (The Insider)
#3: Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
#4: David Fincher (Fight Club)
#5: Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut)


Best Actor
#1: Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
#2: Al Pacino (The Insider)
#3: Matt Damon (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
#4: Terence Stamp (The Limey)
#5: Jim Broadbent (Topsy-Turvy)


Best Actress
#1: Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry)
#2: Annette Bening (American Beauty)
#3: Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother)
#4: Reese Witherspoon (Election)
#5: Élodie Bouchez (The Dreamlife of Angels)


Best Supporting Actor
#1: Christopher Plummer (The Insider)
#2: Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
#3: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Magnolia)
#4: Wes Bentley (American Beauty)
#5: John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich)


Best Supporting Actress
#1: Cate Blanchett (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
#2: Julianne Moore (Magnolia)
#3: Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry)
#4: Cameron Diaz (Being John Malkovich)
#5: Nicole Kidman (Eyes Wide Shut)


Best Original Screenplay
#1: Being John Malkovich (Charlie Kaufman)
#2: American Beauty (Alan Ball)
#3: Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
#4: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker & Matt Stone)
#5: Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)


Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
#2: Election (Jim Taylor & Alexander Payne)
#3: The Insider (Michael Mann & Eric Roth)
#4: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick & Frederic Rafael)
#5: Fight Club (John Uhls)


Best Cinematography
#1: John Seale (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
#2: Dante Spinotti (The Insider)
#3: Conrad L. Hall (American Beauty)
#4: Edward Lachman (The Limey)
#5: Freddie Francis (The Straight Story)


Best Film Editing
#1: Run Lola Run
#2: The Matrix
#3: The Insider
#4: Fight Club
#5: The Talented Mr. Ripley


Best Original Score
#1: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Gabriel Yared)
#2: Being John Malkovich (Carter Burwell)
#3: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Marc Shaiman & Trey Parker)
#4: Toy Story 2 (Randy Newman)
#5: All About My Mother (Alberto Iglesias)


Best Original Song
#1: "Save Me" (Magnolia)
#2: "La Resistance Medley" (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)
#3: "Lullaby for Cain" (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
#4: "When Somebody Loved Me" (Toy Story 2)
#5: "The Great Beyond" (Man on the Moon)


Best Production Design
#1: The Talented Mr Ripley
#2: Sleepy Hollow
#3: Eyes Wide Shut
#4: The Red Violin
#5: Being John Malkovich


Best Costume Design
#1: The Talented Mr. Ripley
#2: The Red Violin
#3: Topsy-Turvy
#4: The Insider
#5: Sleepy Hollow


Best Makeup
#1: Sleepy Hollow
#2: The Matrix
#3: Topsy-Turvy
#4: Bringing Out the Dead
#5: The Talented Mr. Ripley


Best Sound
#1: The Matrix
#2: Fight Club
#3: Sleepy Hollow
#4: The Insider
#5: American Beauty


Best Visual Effects
#1: The Matrix
#2: Fight Club
#3: Sleepy Hollow
#4: Being John Malkovich
#5: Magnolia

 

--The Honorary Awards--

Best Breakthrough Performance - Male
Wes Bentley (American Beauty)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry)


Best First Feature
Sam Mendes (American Beauty)


Worst Film of the Year
Detroit Rock City (dir: Adam Rifkin)
by David L. Blaylock