Who won an Oscar by playing the male lead in the 1999 film American Beauty
"""Certified Fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 59 reviews with an average rating of 8.5/10; the site's consensus states that ""Director Billy Wilder's customary cynicism is leavened here by tender humor, romance, and genuine pathos."" ""The Apartment"" received 10 Academy Award nominations, and won 5 Academy Awards. Although Jack Lemmon did not win the Oscar, Kevin Spacey dedicated his Oscar for ""American Beauty"" (1999) to Lemmon's performance. According to the behind-the-scenes feature on the ""American Beauty"" DVD, the film's director, Sam Mendes, had watched ""The Apartment"" (among other classic American films) as inspiration in preparation for shooting his film."
"53rd British Academy Film Awards The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999. Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (""The Talented Mr. Ripley"") and Maggie Smith (""Tea with Mussolini"") won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Pedro Almodóvar, director of ""Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)"", won"
"American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is the original score for the 1999 film composed by Thomas Newman. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (lost to the score of ""The Red Violin"") and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of ""The Legend of 1900""), and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards. The score album won the Grammy Award for the Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media in 2001 which"
"""Tea with Mussolini"" (Los lobos de Washington) """"'The Matrix"" Winners Losers (minimum two nominations) 53rd British Academy Film Awards The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999. Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (""The Talented Mr. Ripley"") and Maggie Smith (""Tea with Mussolini"") won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and"
"1999 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 34th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2000, honored the best filmmaking of 1999. 1. Being John Malkovich<br> 1. Topsy-Turvy<br> 3. ""Election"" 1. Mike Leigh – ""Topsy-Turvy""<br> 2. David O. Russell – ""Three Kings""<br> 3. Sam Mendes – ""American Beauty"" 1. Russell Crowe – ""The Insider""<br> 2. Jim Broadbent – ""Topsy-Turvy""<br> 3. Kevin Spacey – ""American Beauty"" 1. ""'Reese Witherspoon – ""Election""<br> 2. Hilary Swank – ""Boys Don't Cry""<br> 3. Kate Winslet – ""Holy Smoke"" 1. Christopher Plummer – ""The Insider""<br> 2. Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Magnolia"" and"
"About My Mother"" (""Todo sobre mi madre"") 1. Buena Vista Social Club<br> 2. """"<br> 3. ""American Movie"" 1999 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 34th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2000, honored the best filmmaking of 1999. 1. Being John Malkovich<br> 1. Topsy-Turvy<br> 3. ""Election"" 1. Mike Leigh – ""Topsy-Turvy""<br> 2. David O. Russell – ""Three Kings""<br> 3. Sam Mendes – ""American Beauty"" 1. Russell Crowe – ""The Insider""<br> 2. Jim Broadbent – ""Topsy-Turvy""<br> 3. Kevin Spacey – ""American Beauty"" 1. ""'Reese Witherspoon – ""Election""<br> 2. Hilary Swank – ""Boys Don't Cry""<br> 3. Kate"
"aviation and commercial flight travel"". American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is the original score for the 1999 film composed by Thomas Newman. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (lost to the score of ""The Red Violin"") and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of ""The Legend of 1900""), and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards. The score album won the Grammy Award for the Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other"
"a box office bomb, grossing $339,379 with a budget of $6 million, but critics praised Spacey's direction. He also voiced Hopper in the animated film ""A Bug's Life"" (1998). Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's ""American Beauty""; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Spacey won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and earned another Tony nomination in 1999 for ""The Iceman Cometh"". Spacey played a physically and emotionally scarred grade school teacher in ""Pay"
"despite the man being openly homosexual. Latent homosexual themes were a common theme of science fiction films of the 1950s. In the 1999 film ""American Beauty"" the character Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper) is depicted as being a latent homosexual. Throughout the film, Fitts makes several statements that are narrow-minded and homophobic, and it disturbs the colonel that his son Ricky might be homosexual. However, towards the end of the film, it is revealed that Fitts himself has sexual feelings towards men when he approaches his neighbor Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) and kisses him, but Lester rejects Col. Fitts, and this"
"categories. The telecast garnered nearly 46 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 71st Academy Awards were announced on February 9, 1999, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Rehme, president of the Academy, and the actor Kevin Spacey. ""Shakespeare in Love"" earned the most nominations with thirteen; ""Saving Private Ryan"" came in second place with eleven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 21, 1999. ""Life Is Beautiful"" was the second film nominated simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year (the first being"
"York. The cast included Bernadette Peters as Rose, Tammy Blanchard as Louise and John Dossett as Herbie. Mendes also directed the 2014 Olivier Award-nominated stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"". Mendes directed Jez Butterworth's ""The Ferryman"" for the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2017, of which he won an Olivier Award for best director. In 1999 Mendes made his film directorial debut with ""American Beauty"", starring Kevin Spacey. The film grossed $356.3 million worldwide. The film won the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Picture. Mendes won the Golden"
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"Kevin Spacey Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller ""The Usual Suspects"" (1995) and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlife crisis-themed drama ""American Beauty"" (1999). His other starring roles have included the comedy-drama film ""Swimming with Sharks"" (1994), the psychological thriller ""Seven"" (1995), the neo-noir crime film ""L.A."
"Wes Bentley Wesley Cook Bentley (born September 4, 1978) is an American actor known for blockbusters and independent films. Bentley is best known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in ""American Beauty"" (1999), which earned him a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Supporting Actor, Seneca Crane in ""The Hunger Games"" (2012), Doyle in ""Interstellar"" (2014) and Eric in """". He was one of four subjects in the documentary ""My Big Break"" (2009), which covered his fame after ""American Beauty"" and struggles with substance abuse. Rebuilding his career, he starred in the premiere of ""Venus in Fur"" by David Ives"
"Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director best known for directing the drama film ""American Beauty"" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), and the ""James Bond"" films ""Skyfall"" (2012) and ""Spectre"" (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals ""Cabaret"" (1994), ""Oliver!"" (1994), ""Company"" (1995), and """" (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2013). In 2000 Mendes was appointed"
"and the Sea"", ""One Day in September"", ""The Red Violin"", ""Sleepy Hollow"", and ""Tarzan"" with one. The telecast garnered almost 47 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 72nd Academy Awards were announced on February 15, 2000, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Rehme, president of the Academy, and the actor Dustin Hoffman. ""American Beauty"" received the most nominations with eight total; ""The Cider House Rules"" and ""The Insider"" tied for second with seven nominations each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March"
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"of the Dove""<br> 3. Judi Dench – ""Mrs. Brown"" 1. Burt Reynolds – ""Boogie Nights""<br> 2. Kevin Spacey – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 3. Rupert Everett – ""My Best Friend's Wedding"" 1. Julianne Moore – ""Boogie Nights""<br> 2. Sarah Polley – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Nathalie Richard – ""Irma Vep"" 1. Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Atom Egoyan – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Kevin Smith – ""Chasing Amy"" 1. Roger Deakins – ""Kundun""<br> 2. Dante Spinotti – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 3. Christopher Doyle – ""Happy Together"" 1. La Promesse<br> 2. ""Underground""<br> 3. ""Gabbeh"" 1. Fast, Cheap & Out of"
"representative announced on 15 March 2010 that ""they separated earlier this year"". The couple were divorced in 2011. Mendes married trumpeter Alison Balsom in January 2017, their daughter Phoebe Mendes was born in September 2017. Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director best known for directing the drama film ""American Beauty"" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), and the ""James Bond"" films ""Skyfall"" (2012) and ""Spectre"" (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the"
"Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Spacey), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. At the 53rd British Academy Film Awards, ""American Beauty"" won six of the 14 awards for which it was nominated: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress (Bening), Best Cinematography, Best Film Music and Best Editing. In 2000, the Publicists Guild of America recognized DreamWorks for the best film publicity campaign. In September 2008, ""Empire"" named ""American Beauty"" the 96th ""Greatest Movie of All Time"" after a poll of 10,000 readers, 150 filmmakers, and 50 film critics, the fourth-highest ranked movie from 1999 (behind ""Fight Club"", ""The Matrix"","
"as a closeted homophobic Marine Corps colonel in ""American Beauty"", a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. To get into character, Cooper said he ""depended on a friend who’d fought in Vietnam. I asked him to go deep. What would this man have done? What would be on his walls? On his desk?"" In 2000, Cooper played Colonel Harry Burwell (inspired by Lieutenant Colonel Henry ""Light Horse Harry"" Lee) in ""The Patriot"". He was nominated for another Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting"
"1999. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Charlize Theron. ""A Beautiful Mind"" won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Ron Howard. Other winners included """" also with four awards, ""Black Hawk Down"", and ""Moulin Rouge!"" with two, and ""The Accountant"", ""For the Birds"", ""Gosford Park"", ""Iris"", ""Monster's Ball"", ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Murder on a Sunday Morning"", ""No Man's Land"", ""Pearl Harbor"", ""Shrek"", ""Thoth"", and ""Training Day"", with one. Despite a record length of four"
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"integrity. On September 21, 2010, Paramount Home Entertainment released ""American Beauty"" on Blu-ray, as part of Paramount's Sapphire Series. All the extras from the DVD release were present, with the theatrical trailers upgraded to HD. ""American Beauty"" was widely considered the best film of 1999 by the American press. It received overwhelming praise, chiefly for Spacey, Mendes and Ball. ""Variety"" reported that ""no other 1999 movie has benefited from such universal raves."" It was the best-received title at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it won the People's Choice award after a ballot of the festival's audiences. TIFF's director,"
"honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Chris Cooper Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1980s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama ""American Beauty"" (1999), the biopic about a NASA engineer titled ""October Sky"" (1999), the action spy film ""The Bourne Identity"" (2002), the biographical sports film ""Seabiscuit"" (2003), the biographical film about Truman Capote"", Capote"" (2005), the geopolitical thriller ""Syriana"" (2005), the action-thriller ""The Kingdom"" (2007), the crime drama ""The Town"" (2010), and the musical comedy film"
"have seen its critical regard wane. In 2005, ""Premiere"" named ""American Beauty"" as one of 20 ""most overrated movies of all time""; Mendes accepted the inevitability of the critical reappraisal, saying, ""I thought some of it was entirely justified—it was a little overpraised at the time."" ""American Beauty"" was not considered an immediate favorite to dominate the American awards season. Several other contenders opened at the end of 1999, and US critics spread their honors among them when compiling their end-of-year lists. The Chicago Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association named the film the best of 1999,"
"but while the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association recognized ""American Beauty"", they gave their top awards to other films. By the end of the year, reports of a critical backlash suggested ""American Beauty"" was the underdog in the race for Best Picture; however, at the Golden Globe Awards in January 2000, ""American Beauty"" won Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. As the nominations for the 72nd Academy Awards approached, a frontrunner had not emerged. DreamWorks had launched a major campaign for ""American Beauty"" five weeks before"
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"1986. Shortly afterwards, Spacey was in discussions with Dodd Darin to star in the lead role. Spacey was able to acquire the film rights from Warner Bros. in early 2000. With the help of Dodd Darin, the actor also received exclusive music rights for no charge. With his Academy Award-winning performance in ""American Beauty"" (1999), Paramount Pictures became interested in distributing/financing ""Beyond the Sea"". The deal fell apart when Paramount told Spacey was that he was too old for the role and instead wanted Leonardo DiCaprio. Beginning in October 2000, Spacey took vocal training lessons from Darin collaborator Roger Kellaway"
"He first presided over the 62nd ceremony held in 1990 and had last hosted the 70th ceremony held in 1998. Three weeks earlier in a ceremony at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on March 4, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Salma Hayek. ""American Beauty"" won five awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included ""The Matrix"" with four awards, ""The Cider House Rules"" and ""Topsy-Turvy"" with two, and ""All About My Mother"", ""Boys Don't Cry"", ""Girl, Interrupted"", ""King Gimp"", ""My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York"", ""The Old Man"
"actor Sean Hayes who played the main character, Billy, in the film and went on to play Jack McFarland on the long-running television series ""Will & Grace"". Chad Lindberg was cast in the film ""October Sky"" and in many television shows such as ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", ""ER"" and ""The X-Files"". Wes Bentley won the coveted part of Ricky Fitts in the Oscar-winning film ""American Beauty"" and became an overnight sensation. Zierra,who had already been following his roommates lives before they got their break was able to capture their success on camera as it happened. Once the actors became successful,"
"Best Picture nominations for ""Milk"" and ""Silver Linings Playbook"". ""American Beauty"", directed by Sam Mendes, won a total of five Oscars, as well as the Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), and Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards. ""Milk"", directed by Gus Van Sant, was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, as well as the PGA's Stanley Kramer Award. ""Silver Linings Playbook"", written and directed by David O. Russell, was nominated for eight Oscars. It was the first film in 31 years to be nominated in all four"