Overview of the events of 1999 in film
The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, the science-fiction film The Matrix, the animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the Best Picture-winner American Beauty, and the well-received The Green Mile. Other noteworthy releases include M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, David Fincher's Fight Club, Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's Being John Malkovich. The year also featured George Lucas' top-grossing Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated their 75th anniversaries in 1999.
Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 1999 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1][2]
Awards
1999 films
By country/region
By genre/medium
Births
- January 1 - Diamond White, American actress
- January 4 - Gage Munroe, Canadian actor
- January 6 - Eliza Scanlen, Australian actress
- January 15 - Miray Daner, Turkish actress
- January 18 - Karan Brar, American actor
- January 29 - Madison Bailey, American actress
- February 3 - Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress
- February 7 - Bea Miller, American singer, songwriter and actress
- February 10 - Tiffany Espensen, American actress
- February 19 - Sonia Ben Ammar, French model, singer and actress
- March 5 - Yeri, South Korean singer and actress
- March 10 - Bruna Griphao, Brazilian actress
- March 25
- April 29 - Morgan Turner, American actress
- May 10 - Michael Gandolfini, American actor
- May 11 - Sabrina Carpenter, American actress
- May 25 - Brec Bassinger, American actress
- May 27 - Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress
- May 28 - Cameron Boyce, American actor (d. 2019)
- May 30 - Sean Giambrone, American actor
- June 20 - Kayla Maisonet, American actress
- June 26 - Harley Quinn Smith, American actress
- June 27 - Chandler Riggs, American actor
- July 9 - Claire Corlett, Canadian actress
- July 18 - Onni Tommila, Finnish actor
- July 30 - Joey King, American actress
- August 19 - Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor and musician
- August 22
- September 1 - Jadagrace, American actress, dancer, singer and rapper
- September 2 - Gavin Casalegno, American actor and model
- September 4 - Ellie Darcey-Alden, English actress
- September 7 - Michelle Creber, Canadian actress
- September 14 - Emma Kenney, American actress
- October 12 - Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician
- October 13 - Nell Tiger Free, English actress and singer
- October 15 - Bailee Madison, American actress
- October 22 - Charlie Wright, American actor
- October 31 - Danielle Rose Russell, American actress
- November 10
- November 14 - Jude Wright, English actor
- November 16 - Francesca Scorsese, American actress and filmmaker
- December 7 - Bethany Whitmore, Australian actress
Deaths
Film debuts
References
- ^ "1999 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
- ^ "Top 1999 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office". The Numbers. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
Further reading
- Gordinier, Jeff. "1999: The Year That Changed Movies". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
- Morris, Wesley (2024-08-22). "A Great Year for Movies. The Best Year to Start Writing About Them". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
- Raftery, Brian (2020). Best. Movie. Year. Ever: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-7538-1.
External links
- List of 1999 films at IMDb
- 1999 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
- List of 1999 deaths at IMDb
- List of 1999 births at IMDb
