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Best Film | Best Performance | Best Supporting Performance | Best Director | Best Screenplay |
Best First Film | Best Documentary | Best Cinematography | Best Film of the Decade |
Best Director of the Decade | Best Film of the Century
Best Films of the Year   (see the full list)
1 Being John Malkovich
2 Topsy-Turvy
3 All About My Mother
4 Rosetta
5 Election
6 The Straight Story
7 Boys Don't Cry
8 Magnolia
9 Flowers of Shanghai
10 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Best Performances of the Year   (see the full list)


1 Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
2 Russell Crowe, The Insider
3 Jim Broadbent, Topsy-Turvy
4 Emilie Dequenne, Rosetta
5 Reese Witherspoon, Election
6 Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story
7 Kate Winslet, Holy Smoke
8 Janet McTeer, Tumbleweeds
9 Cecilia Roth, All About My Mother
10 Jim Carrey, Man On the Moon

Best Supporting Performances of the Year   (see the full list)


1 Chloe Sevigny, Boys Don't Cry
2 John Malkovich, Being John Malkovich
3 Werner Herzog, julien donkey-boy
4 Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich
5 Sissy Spacek, The Straight Story
6 Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Talented Mr. Ripley
7 Peter Sarsgaard, Boys Don't Cry
8 Christopher Plummer, The Insider
9 Tom Cruise, Magnolia
10 Lesley Manville, Topsy-Turvy

Best Directors of the Year   (see the full list)


1 Mike Leigh, Topsy-Turvy
2 Hou Hsiao-hsien, Flowers of Shanghai
3 Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia
4 Claire Denis, Beau Travail
5 Hirokazu Kore-eda, After Life
6 David Lynch, The Straight Story
7 David O. Russell, Three Kings
8 Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
9 Sam Mendes, American Beauty
10 Pedro Almodovar, All About My Mother

Best Screenplays of the Year   (see the full list)


1 Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich
2 Taylor/Payne, Election
3 Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia
4 Mike Leigh, Topsy-Turvy
5 David Cronenberg, eXistenZ
6 Alan Ball, American Beauty
7 Roach/Sweeney, The Straight Story
8 Campion/Campion, Holy Smoke
9 Peirce/Bienen, Boys Don't Cry
10 Parker/Stone, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Best First Films of the Year   (see the full list)


1 Being John Malkovich
2 Boys Don't Cry
3 Last Night
4 The Blair Witch Project
5 The Dreamlife of Angels
6 Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
7 Show Me Love
8 Trans
9 Guinevere
10 American Beauty

Best Documentaries of the Year   (see the full list)


1 Buena Vista Social Club
2 American Movie
3 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
4 Hands on a Hardbody
5 My Best Fiend
6 Pripyat
7 American Hollow
8 On the Ropes
9 An American Love Story
10 Dancemaker

Best Cinematography of the Year   (see the full list)


1 Emmanuel Lubezki, Sleepy Hollow
2 Dante Spinotti, The Insider
3 Zhao Fei, The Emperor and the Assassin
4 Newton Thomas Sigel, Three Kings
5 Pin Bing Lee, Flowers of Shanghai
6 Freddie Francis, The Straight Story
7 Dion Beebe, Holy Smoke
8 Dick Pope, Topsy-Turvy
9 John Seale, The Talented Mr. Ripley
10 Robert Elswit, Magnolia

Best Films of the Decade   (see the full list)


1 Safe
2 Breaking the Waves
3 Flowers of Shanghai
4 Taste of Cherry
5 Goodfellas
6 Fireworks
7 Naked
8 Underground
9 Satantango
10 Fallen Angels

Directors of the Decade   (see the full list)


1 Hou Hsiao-hsien
2 Abbas Kiarostami
3 Krzysztof Kieslowski
4 Wong Kar-wai
5 Steven Spielberg
6 Quentin Tarantino
7 Zhang Yimou
8 Claire Denis
9 Olivier Assayas
10 Abel Ferrara

Best Films of the Century   (see the full list)


1 Citizen Kane
2 Rules of the Game
3 Vertigo
4 The Searchers
5 The Man With a Movie Camera
6 Sunrise
7 L'Atalante
8 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
9 Au Hazard Balthazar
10 Rashomon