Who Won 72nd Annual Academy Awards?

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. "The Matrix" won four technical awards. Billy Crystal hosted the year that 55 Oscars were taken from a warehouse and later found in a dumpster.

Best Picture	American Beauty  Bruce Cohen; Dan Jinks
Best Actor	Kevn 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 Director	Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
Adapted Screenplay	The Cider House Rules  John Irving
Original Screenplay	American Beauty  Alan Ball
Foreign Language Film	All About My Mother  Spain
Documentary Feature	One Day In September  Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
Documentary Short	King Gimp  Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
Short Film (Live Action)	My Mother Dreams The Satan's Disciples In New York Barbara Schock, Tammy Tiehel
Short Film (Animated)	The Old Man And The Sea  Alexander Petrov
Film Editing	The Matrix  Zach Staenberg
Cinematography	American Beauty  Conrad L. Hall
Costume Design	Topsy-Turvy  Lindy Hemming
Makeup	Topsy-Turvy  Christine Blundell, Trefor Proud
Art Direction	Sleepy Hollow  Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Peter Young
Sound Effects Editing	The Matrix  Dane A Davis
Sound	The Matrix  John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, David Lee
Visual Effects	The Matrix  John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, Jon Thum
Original Score	The Red Violin  John Corigliano, composer
Original Song	"You'll Be In My Heart" (Tarzan) Music and Lyric by Phil Collins