1999 Academy Awards: List of Eligible Films
The Academy has a whole bevy of rules stipulating what movies are eligible for nominations in any given "year" of Oscar balloting. For the 1999 Academy Awards—already things get confusing, because the "1999" Oscars are awarded in the year 2000—a film must open commercially at a theater in Los Angeles at some point between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 1999. Seems simple enough, unless you realize that several films that seem new to moviegoers around the country (for example, A Map of the World, Holy Smoke, or Tumbleweeds) in fact opened in Los Angeles to attain Awards eligibility, subsequently closed, and have since reopened to play nationwide in the traditionally fallow late-winter movie season. ( The studios conclude that even their more demanding Oscar contenders look pretty good up against Snow Day.)
Now, additionally, the Academy demands that films submitted for consideration as a Best Foreign Language Film contestant in one year cannot be eligible for nominations in English-language categories in the following year of its general domestic release: so, in the case of 1999, films such as The Dreamlife of Angels and Run Lola Run are barred from consideration. Probably the easiest way to clarify all this gobbledygook is to provide an alphabetical list of the 245 films that qualified as Oscar candidates for 1999...and as you scroll through the list, bear in mind that while Mathilde Bonnefoy's smashing editing on Run Lola Run and élodie Bouchez's astonishing performance in The Dreamlife of Angels cannot be cited for praise, the screenplay for Detroit Rock City, the photography in Idle Hands, and of course Rob Schneider's rendering of Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo could feasibly be announced as Academy Award nominees come February 15. In theory.
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A MAP OF THE WORLD
THE MATRIX
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
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MICKEY BLUE EYES
THE MINUS MAN
MISS JULIE
MR. DEATH: THE RISE AND FALL OF FRED A. LEUCHTER, JR.
THE MOD SQUAD
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MUPPETS FROM SPACE
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MUSIC OF THE HEART
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
MY LIFE SO FAR
MY NAME IS JOE
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10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
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THE 13TH WARRIOR
THIS IS MY FATHER
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