72nd Academy Awards (2000)

Best Picture

American Beauty
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider
The Sixth Sense

Best Director

American Beauty - Sam Mendes
Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze
The Cider House Rules - Lasse Hallstrom
The Insider - Michael Mann
The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan

Best Original Screenplay

American Beauty - Alan Ball
Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman
Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
Topsy-Turvy - Mike Leigh

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Election - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
The Green Mile - Frank Darabont
The Insider - Michael Mann, Eric Roth
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella

Best Actor in a Leading Role

American Beauty - Kevin Spacey
The Hurricane - Denzel Washington
The Insider - Russell Crowe
The Straight Story - Richard Farnsworth
Sweet and Lowdown - Sean Penn

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Boys Don't Cry - Hilary Swank
American Beauty - Annette Bening
The End of the Affair - Julianne Moore
Music of the Heart - Meryl Streep
Tumbleweeds - Janet McTeer

Best Supporting Actor

The Cider House Rules - Michael Caine
The Green Mile - Michael Clarke Duncan
Magnolia - Tom Cruise
The Sixth Sense - Haley Joel Osment
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Jude Law

Best Supporting Actress

Girl, Interrupted - Angelina Jolie
Being John Malkovich - Catherine Keener
Boys Don't Cry - Chloe Sevigny
The Sixth Sense - Toni Collette
Sweet and Lowdown - Samantha Morton

Best Art Direction

Sleepy Hollow - Rick Heinrichs, Peter Young
Anna and the King - Luciana Arrighi
The Cider House Rules - David Gropman
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Roy Walker
Topsy-Turvy - Eve Stewart

Best Cinematography

American Beauty - Conrad L. Hall
The End of the Affair - Roger Pratt
The Insider - Dante Spinotti
Sleepy Hollow - Emmanuel Lubezki
Snow Falling on Cedars - Robert Richardson

Best Original Song

Tarzan - Phil Collins for "You'll Be In My Heart"
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut - Trey Parker, Marc Shaiman for "Blame Canada"
Music of the Heart - Diane Warren for "Music of My Heart"
Magnolia - Aimee Mann for "Save Me"
Toy Story 2 - Randy Newman for "When She Loved Me"

Best Original Score

The Red Violin - John Corigliano
American Beauty - Thomas Newman
Angela's Ashes - John Williams
The Cider House Rules - Rachel Portman
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Gabriel Yared

Best Sound Mixing

The Matrix - John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, David Lee
The Green Mile - Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick, Willie D. Burton
The Insider - Andy Nelson, Doug Hemphill, Lee Orloff
The Mummy - Leslie Shatz, Chris Carpenter, Rick Kline, Chris Munro
Star Wars - Episode I The Phantom Menace - Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Shawn Murphy, John Midgley

Best Sound Editing

The Matrix - Dane A. Davis
Fight Club - Ren Klyce, Richard Hymns
Star Wars - Episode I The Phantom Menace - Ben Burtt, Tom Bellfort

Best Visual Effects

The Matrix - John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Jon Thum, Steve Courtley
Star Wars - Episode I The Phantom Menace - John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires, Rob Coleman
Stuart Little - John Dykstra, Jerome Chen, Henry F. Anderson III, Eric Allard

Best Costume Design

Topsy-Turvy - Lindy Hemming
Anna and the King - Jenny Beavan
Sleepy Hollow - Colleen Atwood
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Gary Jones, Ann Roth
Titus - Milena Canonero

Best Makeup

Topsy-Turvy - Christine Blundell, Trefor Proud
Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me - Michele Burke, Mike Smithson
Bicentennial Man - Greg Cannom
Life - Rick Baker

Best Animated Short Film

The Old Man and the Sea
Humdrum
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
3 Misses
When the Day Breaks

Best Documentary Feature

One Day in September
Buena Vista Social Club
Genghis Blues
On the Ropes
Speaking in String

Best Documentary Short Subject

King Gimp
Eyewitness
The Wildest Show in the South - The Angola Prison Rodeo

Best Foreign Language Film

Todo sobre mi madre
Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef
Est - Ouest
Solomon and Gaenor
Under Solen

Academy Honorary Award

Andrzej Wajda for "Recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction"

Best Live Action Short Film

My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York - Barbara Schock, Tammy Tiehel
Bror, min bror - Henrik Ruben Genz, Michael W Horsten
Killing Joe - Mehdi Norowzian, Steve Wax
Kleingeld - Marc-Andreas Bochert, Gabriele Lins
Stora & små mirakel - Marcus Olsson

Best Film Editing

The Matrix - Zach Staenberg
American Beauty - Tariq Anwar
The Cider House Rules - Lisa Zeno Churgin
The Insider - William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, David Rosenbloom
The Sixth Sense - Andrew Mondshein