53rd British Academy Film Awards

The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999.

53rd British Academy Film Awards
Date9 April 2000
SiteOdeon Leicester Square
Hosted byJack Docherty
Highlights
Best FilmAmerican Beauty
Best British FilmEast Is East
Best ActorKevin Spacey
American Beauty
Best ActressAnnette Bening
American Beauty
Most awardsAmerican Beauty (6)
Most nominationsAmerican Beauty (14)

Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Maggie Smith (Tea with Mussolini) won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Pedro Almodóvar, director of Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother), won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Directing. East Is East was voted Best British Film.

The ceremony took place at the Odeon Leicester Square in London and was hosted by Jack Docherty.[1]

Winners and nominees
Pedro Almodóvar, Best Director winner
Kevin Spacey, Best Actor winner
Annette Bening, Best Actress winner
Jude Law, Best Supporting Actor winner
Maggie Smith, Best Supporting Actress winner
Charlie Kaufman, Best Original Screenplay winner
Neil Jordan, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

American Beauty – Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks

Pedro Almodóvar – All About My Mother

Kevin Spacey – American Beauty as Lester Burnham

Annette Bening – American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham

Jude Law – The Talented Mr. Ripley as Dickie Greenleaf

Maggie Smith – Tea with Mussolini as Lady Hester Random

Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman

The End of the Affair – Neil Jordan

American Beauty – Conrad Hall

Sleepy Hollow – Colleen Atwood

American Beauty – Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury

Topsy-Turvy – Christine Blundell

American Beauty – Thomas Newman

Sleepy Hollow – Rick Heinrichs

The Matrix – David Lee, John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell and Dane Davis

The Matrix – John Gaeta, Steve Courtley, Janek Sirrs and Jon Thum

East Is East – Leslee Udwin and Damien O'Donnell

Ratcatcher – Lynne Ramsay (Writer/Director)

The Man with the Beautiful Eyes – Jonathan Bairstow and Jonathan Hodgson

Who's My Favourite Girl? – Joern Utkilen, Kara Johnston and Adrian J. McDowall

  • Bait – Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Tom Shankland and Jone 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

All About My Mother – Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar

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
Topsy-Turvy
4 The Sixth Sense
3 All About My Mother
Angela's Ashes
Being John Malkovich
Buena Vista Social Club
An Ideal Husband
Sleepy Hollow
2 Notting Hill
Ratcatcher
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Tea with Mussolini
Films that received multiple awards
Awards Film
6 American Beauty
2 All About My Mother
The Matrix
Sleepy Hollow
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See also

References
  1. "All right on the night". The Guardian. 7 April 2000. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
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