71st Annual Academy Awards® Nominations

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The nominations for the 71st Annual Academy Awards® were announced at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on February 9th, 1999. There were a few surprises, most notably the lack of nominations for The Truman Show's Jim Carrey and Rushmore's Bill Murray.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

• Elizabeth
• Life is Beautiful
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakespeare in Love
• The Thin Red Line

Best Director

• Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful
• Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
• John Madden for Shakespeare in Love
• Terrence Malick for The Thin Red Line
• Peter Weir for The Truman Show

Best Actor

• Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful
• Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan
• Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters
• Nick Nolte in Affliction
• Edward Norton in American History X

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth
• Fernanda Montenegro in Central Station
• Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love
• Meryl Streep in One True Thing
• Emily Watson in Hilary and Jackie

Best Supporting Actor

• James Coburn in Affliction
• Robert Duvall in A Civil Action
• Ed Harris in The Truman Show
• Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love
• Billy Bob Thornton in A Simple Plan

Best Supporting Actress

• Kathy Bates in Primary Colors
• Brenda Blethyn in Little Voice
• Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love
• Rachel Griffiths in Hilary and Jackie
• Lynn Redgrave in Gods and Monsters

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bill Condon for Gods and Monsters
• Scott Frank for Out of Sight
• Elaine May for Primary Colors
• Scott B. Smith for A Simple Plan
• Terrence Malick for The Thin Red Line

Best Original Screenplay

• Warren Beatty & Jeremy Pikser for Bulworth
• Vincenzo Cerami & Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful
• Robert Rodat for Saving Private Ryan
• Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard for Shakespeare in Love
• Andrew Niccol for The Truman Show

Best Foreign Film

• Central Station, Brazil
• Children of Heaven, Iran
• The Grandfather, Spain
• Life is Beautiful, Italy
• Tango, Argentina

Best Art Direction

• Elizabeth
• Pleasantville
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakespeare in Love
• What Dreams May Come

Best Cinematography

• A Civil Action
• Elizabeth
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakspeare in Love
• The Thin Red Line

Best Sound

• Armageddon
• The Mask of Zorro
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakespeare in Love
• The Thin Red Line

Best Sound Effects Editing

• Armageddon
• The Mask of Zorro
• Saving Private Ryan

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

• A Bug’s Life, Randy Newman
• Mulan, Music by Matthew Wilder,Lyrics by David Zippel,Orchestral Score by Jerry Goldsmith
• Patch Adams, Marc Shaiman
• The Prince of Egypt, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Orchestral Score by Hans Zimmer
• Shakespeare in Love, Stephen Warbeck

Best Dramatic Score

• Elizabeth, David Hirschfelder
• Life is Beautiful, Nicola Piovani
• Pleasantville, Randy Newman
• Saving Private Ryan, John Williams
• The Thin Red Line, Hans Zimmer

Best Original Song

• “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” Music and Lyric by Diane Warren for Armageddon
• “The Prayer” Music by Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster, Lyric by Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster, Tony Renis and Alberto Testa for Quest for Camelot
• “A Soft Place to Fall” Music and Lyric by Allison Moorer and Gwil Owen for The Horse Whisperer
• “That’ll Do” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman for Babe: Pig in the City
• “When You Believe” Music and Lyric by Stephen Schwartz for The Prince of Egypt

Best Costume

• Beloved
• Elizabeth
• Pleasantville
• Shakespeare in Love
• Velvet Goldmine

Best Documentary Feature

• Dancemaker
• The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.
• The Last Days
• Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell The Truth
• Regret to Inform

Best Documentary Short

• The Personals
• A Place in the Land
• Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square

Best Film Editing

• Life is Beautiful
• Out of Sight
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakespeare in Love
• The Thin Red Line

Best Makeup

• Elizabeth
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakespeare in Love

Best Animated Short Film

• Bunny
• The Canterbury Tales
• Jolly Roger
• More
• When Life Departs

Best Live-Action Short Film

• Culture
• Election Night
• Holiday Romance
• La Carte Postale
• Victor

Best Visual Effects

• Armageddon
• Mighty Joe Young
• What Dreams May Come