1999 in film (original) (raw)
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Overview of the events of 1999 in film
The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's posthumous 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.[1]
Highest-grossing films
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The top 10 films released in 1999 by worldwide gross are as follows:[2][1]
Highest-grossing films of 1999
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | 20th Century Fox | $924,305,084 |
| 2 | The Sixth Sense | Buena Vista | $672,806,292 |
| 3 | Toy Story 2 | $511,358,276 | |
| 4 | The Matrix | Warner Bros. | $465,974,198 |
| 5 | Tarzan | Buena Vista | $448,191,819 |
| 6 | The Mummy | Universal | $418,138,535 |
| 7 | Notting Hill | $363,889,678 | |
| 8 | The World Is Not Enough | MGM / UIP | $361,832,400 |
| 9 | American Beauty | DreamWorks | $356,296,601 |
| 10 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | New Line | $312,383,487 |
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- 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
- Jin Ji-hee, South Korean actress
- Mikey Madison, American actress
- April 27 – Brooklynn Proulx, Canadian former actress
- April 29 – Morgan Turner, American actress
- May 10 – Michael Gandolfini, American actor
- May 11 – Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress
- May 24 – Charlie Plummer, American actor
- 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 2 – Madison Leisle, American actress
- 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 13 – Eli Brown, American actor
- August 19 – Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor and musician
- August 22
- Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
- Ricardo Hurtado, American actor and singer
- 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
- September 17 – Daniel Huttlestone, English actor
- 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 21 – Carson MacCormac, Canadian actor
- October 22 – Charlie Wright (American actor), American actor
- October 31 – Danielle Rose Russell, American actress
- November 10
- Kiernan Shipka, American actress
- Michael Cimino, American actor
- November 14 – Jude Wright, English actor
- November 16 – Francesca Scorsese, American actress and filmmaker
- December 2 – Fred Hechinger, American actor
- December 7 – Bethany Whitmore, Australian actress
- Amy Adams − Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Anthony Anderson − Life
- Katie Boland − Striking Poses
- Jay Baruchel − Running Home
- Adam Brody − Random Acts of Violence
- Daniel Brühl − Paradise Mall
- Celso Bugallo − Butterfly's Tongue
- Paddy Considine – A Room for Romeo Brass
- Émilie Dequenne − Rosetta
- Zooey Deschanel − Mumford
- Garret Dillahunt − Last Call
- Omid Djalili − The Mummy
- Ryan Donowho – Varsity Blues
- Rachel Dratch − Serious Business
- Kevin Durand – Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- Danny Dyer – Human Traffic
- Idris Elba − Belle maman
- Juan Fernández − Alone
- James Franco − Never Been Kissed
- Zach Galifianakis − Flushed
- Kathryn Hahn – Flushed
- Tony Hale − Raging Hormones
- Regina Hall − The Best Man
- Cory Hardrict – Never Been Kissed
- Andrew Howard – Shades
- Hugh Jackman − Paperback Hero
- Dakota Johnson − Crazy in Alabama
- Michael B. Jordan − Black and White
- Shakib Khan − Ananta Bhalobasha
- Chris Klein − Election
- Ashton Kutcher − Coming Soon
- Brie Larson − Special Delivery
- Ali Larter − Varsity Blues
- Mélanie Laurent − The Bridge
- Joshua Leonard – The Blair Witch Project
- Justin Long − Galaxy Quest
- Carmen Machi – Shacky Carmine
- Taryn Manning − Speedway Junky
- Kate Mara − Random Hearts
- Melissa McCarthy − Go
- Wotan Wilke Möhring – Zoe
- Bobby Moynihan − Nine the Hard Way
- Rubén Ochandiano − Flowers from Another World
- Kip Pardue − But I'm a Cheerleader
- Simon Pegg − Tube Tales
- Kal Penn − Freshman
- Piper Perabo − Whiteboyz
- Alison Pill – The Life Before This
- Alysia Reiner – The Stand-In
- Shawn Roberts – Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
- Seann William Scott − American Pie
- Peter Serafinowicz − Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
- Alia Shawkat − Three Kings
- Dylan Sprouse – Big Daddy
- Audrey Tautou − Venus Beauty Institute
- Gabrielle Union − She's All That
- Karine Vanasse − Set Me Free
- Paz Vega − Zapping
- Justus von Dohnányi – Jakob the Liar
- Michael Weston – Getting to Know You
- Ben Whishaw – The Trench
- Rainn Wilson – Galaxy Quest
- Yu Nan – Lunar Eclipse
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- List of 1999 deaths at IMDb
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