# 53rd British Academy Film Awards

The 53rd British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 9 April 2000 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1999. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 1999.
Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (and previously won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey), Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing, and Original Music; Spacey previously won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Maggie Smith (Tea with Mussolini) won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. Pedro Almodóvar, director of All About My Mother, won for his direction. East Is East was voted Outstanding British Film.
The nominations were announced on 1 March 2000 and the ceremony took place at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, hosted by Jack Docherty.

## Winners and nominees
### BAFTA Fellowship

* Michael Caine and Stanley Kubrick (posthumous)

### Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

* Joyce Herlihy

### Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Film American Beauty – Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks East Is East – Leslee Udwin The End of the Affair – Stephen Woolley and Neil Jordan The Sixth Sense – Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Barry Mendel The Talented Mr. Ripley – William Horberg and Tom Sternberg | Best Direction Pedro Almodóvar – All About My Mother Anthony Minghella – The Talented Mr. Ripley M. Night Shyamalan – The Sixth Sense Neil Jordan – The End of the Affair Sam Mendes – American Beauty |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role Kevin Spacey – American Beauty as Lester Burnham Jim Broadbent – Topsy-Turvy as W. S. Gilbert Om Puri – East Is East as George Khan Ralph Fiennes – The End of the Affair as Maurice Bendrix Russell Crowe – The Insider as Jeffrey Wigand | Best Actress in a Leading Role Annette Bening – American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham Emily Watson – Angela's Ashes as Angela McCourt Julianne Moore – The End of the Affair as Sarah Miles Linda Bassett – East Is East as Ella Khan |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role Jude Law – The Talented Mr. Ripley as Dickie Greenleaf Michael Caine – The Cider House Rules as Dr. Wilbur Larch Rhys Ifans – Notting Hill as Spike Timothy Spall – Topsy-Turvy as Richard Temple Wes Bentley – American Beauty as Ricky Fitts | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Maggie Smith – Tea with Mussolini as Lady Hester Random Cameron Diaz – Being John Malkovich as Lotte Schwartz Cate Blanchett – The Talented Mr. Ripley as Meredith Logue Mena Suvari – American Beauty as Angela Hayes Thora Birch – American Beauty as Jane Burnham |
| Best Original Screenplay Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman All About My Mother – Pedro Almodóvar American Beauty – Alan Ball The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan Topsy-Turvy – Mike Leigh | Best Adapted Screenplay The End of the Affair – Neil Jordan East Is East – Ayub Khan Din An Ideal Husband – Oliver Parker The Talented Mr. Ripley – Anthony Minghella |
| Best Cinematography American Beauty – Conrad Hall Angela's Ashes – Michael Seresin The End of the Affair – Roger Pratt The Matrix – Bill Pope The Talented Mr. Ripley – John Seale | Best Costume Design Sleepy Hollow – Colleen Atwood The End of the Affair – Sandy Powell An Ideal Husband – Caroline Harris Tea with Mussolini – Jenny Beavan, Anna Anni and Alberto Spiazzi |
| Best Editing American Beauty – Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury Being John Malkovich – Eric Zumbrunnen The Matrix – Zach Staenberg The Sixth Sense – Andrew Mondshein | Best Makeup and Hair Topsy-Turvy – Christine Blundell American Beauty – Tania McComas and Carol O'Connell The End of the Affair – Christine Beveridge An Ideal Husband – Peter King |
| Best Original Music American Beauty – Thomas Newman Buena Vista Social Club – Ry Cooder and Nick Gold The End of the Affair – Michael Nyman The Talented Mr. Ripley – Gabriel Yared | Best Production Design Sleepy Hollow – Rick Heinrichs American Beauty – Naomi Shohan Angela's Ashes – Geoffrey Kirkland The End of the Affair – Anthony D. G. Pratt The Matrix – Owen Paterson |
| Best Sound The Matrix – David Lee, John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell and Dane Davis American Beauty – Scott Martin Gershin, Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and Richard Van Dyke Buena Vista Social Club – Martin Müller and Jerry Boys Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – Ben Burtt, Tom Bellfort, John Midgley, Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Shawn Murphy | Best Special Visual Effects The Matrix – John Gaeta, Steve Courtley, Janek Sirrs and Jon Thum A Bug's Life – William Reeves, Eben Fiske Ostby, Rick Sayre and Sharon Calahan The Mummy – John Berton, Daniel Jeannette, Ben Snow and Chris Corbould Sleepy Hollow – Jimmy Mitchell, Kevin Yagher, Joss Williams and Paddy Eason Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires and Rob Coleman |
| Outstanding British Film East Is East – Leslee Udwin and Damien O'Donnell Notting Hill – Duncan Kenworthy and Roger Michell Onegin – Ileen Maisel, Simon Bosanquet and Martha Fiennes Ratcatcher – Gavin Emerson and Lynne Ramsay Topsy-Turvy – Simon Channing Williams and Mike Leigh Wonderland – Michele Camarda, Andrew Eaton and Michael Winterbottom | Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Ratcatcher – Lynne Ramsay (Writer/Director) East Is East – Ayub Khan Din (Writer) Human Traffic – Justin Kerrigan (Writer/Director) Waking Ned – Kirk Jones (Writer/Director) |
| Best Short Animation The Man with the Beautiful Eyes – Jonathan Bairstow and Jonathan Hodgson Jolly Roger – Claire Jennings, Mark Baker and Neville Astley The Old Man and the Sea – Bernard Lajoie, Tatsuo Shimamura and Aleksandr Petrov Periwig Maker – Annette Schäffler and Steffen Schäffler | Best Short Film Who's My Favourite Girl? – Joern Utkilen, Kara Johnston and Adrian J. McDowall Bait – Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Tom Shankland and Jane Harris Perdie – Rachel Shadick and Faye Gilbert The Tale of the Rat That Wrote – Ruth Kenley-Letts, Lisa-Marie Russo, Billy O'Brien and Murilo Pasta |
| Best Film Not in the English Language All About My Mother – Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar Buena Vista Social Club – Ulrich Felsberg, Deepak Nayar and Wim Wenders Festen – Birgitte Hald and Thomas Vinterberg Run Lola Run – Stefan Arndt and Tom Tykwer ||

## Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 14 | American Beauty |
| 10 | The End of the Affair |
| 7 | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| 6 | East Is East |
| 5 | The Matrix |
| 5 | Topsy-Turvy |
| 4 | The Sixth Sense |
| 3 | All About My Mother |
| 3 | Angela's Ashes |
| 3 | Being John Malkovich |
| 3 | Buena Vista Social Club |
| 3 | An Ideal Husband |
| 3 | Sleepy Hollow |
| 2 | Notting Hill |
| 2 | Ratcatcher |
| 2 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace |
| 2 | Tea with Mussolini |
Films that received multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 6 | American Beauty |
| 2 | All About My Mother |
| 2 | The Matrix |
| 2 | Sleepy Hollow |