53rd British Academy Film Awards
53rd British Academy Film Awards | |
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Date | 9 April 2000 |
Site | Odeon Leicester Square |
Hosted by | Jack Docherty |
Highlights | |
Best Film | American Beauty |
Best British Film | East Is East |
Best Actor | Kevin Spacey American Beauty |
Best Actress | Annette Bening American Beauty |
Most awards | American Beauty (6) |
Most nominations | American Beauty (14) |
The 53rd British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 9 April 2000 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1999. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 1999.[1][2][3]
Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (and previously won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey), Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing, and Original Music; Spacey previously won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Maggie Smith (Tea with Mussolini) won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. Pedro Almodóvar, director of All About My Mother, won for his direction. East Is East was voted Outstanding British Film.
The nominations were announced on 1 March 2000 and the ceremony took place at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, hosted by Jack Docherty.[4][5]
Winners and nominees
[edit]BAFTA Fellowship
[edit]- Michael Caine and Stanley Kubrick (posthumous)
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
[edit]- Joyce Herlihy
Awards
[edit]Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Statistics
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See also
[edit]- 72nd Academy Awards
- 25th César Awards
- 5th Critics' Choice Awards
- 52nd Directors Guild of America Awards
- 13th European Film Awards
- 57th Golden Globe Awards
- 11th Golden Laurel Awards
- 20th Golden Raspberry Awards
- 4th Golden Satellite Awards
- 14th Goya Awards
- 15th Independent Spirit Awards
- 5th Lumières Awards
- 26th Saturn Awards
- 6th Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 52nd Writers Guild of America Awards
References
[edit]- ^ "Full list of Bafta winners". BBC News. 9 April 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
- ^ "American Beauty shines at Baftas". BBC News. 9 April 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
- ^ Gibbons, Fiachra (10 April 2000). "Bafta award choices scorn the Oscar line". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
- ^ "Bafta nominations in full". BBC News. 1 March 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
- ^ "All right on the night". The Guardian. 7 April 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.