72nd Annual Academy Awards® Nominations

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The nominations for the 72nd Annual Academy Awards® nominations were announced at 8:30AM Eastern on February 15th. Don't forget to take a minute to vote in our survey.

American Beauty was honored with eight nominations, The Cider House Rules and The Insider both received seven and The Sixth Sense, ironically, went home with six nominations.

And the nominees are...

Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Foreign Film

• All About My Mother (Spain)
  
• Caravan (Nepal)
  
• East-West (France)
  
• Solomon and Gaenor (United Kingdom)
  
• Under the Sun (Sweden)

Best Art Direction

• Anna and the King
• The Cider House Rules
• Sleepy Hollow
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Topsy-Turvy

Best Cinematography

• American Beauty
• The End of the Affair
• The Insider
• Sleepy Hollow
• Snow Falling on Cedars

Best Sound

• The Green Mile
• The Insider
• The Matrix
• The Mummy
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Best Sound Effects Editing

• Fight Club
• The Matrix
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Best Original Score

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

Best Original Song

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

Best Costume

• Anna and the King
• Sleepy Hollow
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Titus
• Topsy-Turvy

Best Documentary Feature

• Buena Vista Social Club
• Genghis Blues
• On The Ropes
• One Day in September
• Speaking in Strings

Best Documentary Short

• Eyewitness
• King Gimp
• The Wildest Show In The South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

Best Film Editing

• American Beauty
• The Cider House Rules
• The Insider
• The Matrix
• The Sixth Sense

Best Makeup

• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
• Bicentennial Man
• Life
• Topsy-Turvy

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Live-Action Short Film

• Bror, Min Bror
• Killing Joe
• Kleingeld
• Major and Minor Miracles
• My Mother Dreams The Satan's Disciples In New York

Best Visual Effects

• The Matrix
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Stuart Little

The awards will be handed out on March 26th, 2000 and will air on the ABC network starting at 5pm Pacific. We'll have full coverage of the results.