1999 in film
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Events
- April 7 - Star Wars fans begin lining up at movie theaters in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace
- May 3 - A Durham, North Carolina woman named Jennifer Briggs changes her name to Obi-Wan Kenobi Briggs in honor of the Star Wars character. Ms. Briggs wins $1000 from a local radio station for changing her name.
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Top grossing films
- Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace: $431,088,297
- The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment: $293,506,292
- Toy Story 2: $245,852,179
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, starring Mike Myers: $206,040,086
- The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves: $171,479,930
- Tarzan: $171,091,819
- Big Daddy: $163,479,795
- The Mummy: $155,385,488
- Runaway Bride, starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts: $152,257,509
- The Blair Witch Project: $140,539,099
- Stuart Little: $140,035,367
- The Green Mile: $136,801,374
- American Beauty: $130,096,601
- The World Is Not Enough: $126,943,684
- Double Jeopardy: $116,741,558
21 movies in 1999 grossed over $100 million.
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Academy Awards
- Best Picture: American Beauty - DreamWorks SKG, Jinks/Cohen Company
- Best Actor: Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
- Best Actress: Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
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Births
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Deaths
- February 20 - Gene Siskel, film critic, Siskel and Ebert
- March 7 - Stanley Kubrick, film director
- March 13 - Garson Kanin, writer/director
- April 14 - Ellen Corby, actress, Grandma Walton in "The Waltons"
- April 21 - Buddy Rogers, actor, husband of Mary Pickford
- April 28 - Rory Calhoun, actor
- May 2 - Oliver Reed, actor
- May 8 - Dirk Bogarde, actor/author
- May 21 - Vanessa Brown, actress
- June 11 - DeForest Kelley, actor best known for "Star Trek"
- June 29 - Allan Carr, movie producer
- July 1 - Sylvia Sidney, actress
- July 2 - Mario Puzo, writer/author, "The Godfather"
- August 4 - Victor Mature, actor
- September 9 - Ruth Roman, actress
- September 22 - George C Scott, Oscar winning actor
- December 3 - Madeline Kahn, actress
- December 17 – Rex Allen, cowboy actor, singer
- December 19 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor, "Q" in James Bond films
- December 23 - Lois Hamilton, actress, artist, model
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Other movies released
- American Pie
- Being John Malkovich
- The Big Kahuna
- Blast from the Past
- Bowfinger
- Boys Don't Cry
- The Dogwalker
- The Cider House Rules
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
- Dick
- Dudley Do-Right
- End of Days
- Entrapment
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Fantasia 2000
- Fight Club
- Forces of Nature
- Galaxy Quest
- Guinevere
- The Haunting
- Magnolia
- Man on the Moon
- Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy (DVD Release)
- My Favorite Martian
- Never Been Kissed
- The Omega Code
- Payback
- Pushing Tin
- Random Hearts
- She's All That
- Simply Irresistible
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- The Straight Story
- Three Kings
- Three to Tango
- The Thomas Crown Affair
- Trick
- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
- Wild Wild Westde:Filmjahr 1999
