The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end.

* Adwa ( film ) ( 1999 ).

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single " Be A Man "— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions — for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday ( 1999 ).

* Cleopatra ( 1999 film ), an American film produced by Hallmark Entertainment

Caitlin Clarke ( May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004 ) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998 – 1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

Flockhart played the role of Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a 1999 film version of Shakespeare's play.

In 1997 she and business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films, with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed.

In 1999, Barrymore was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star " Lifetime Achievement " Award commemorating her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

Déjà vu provides a plot point in The Matrix, a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski.

When the distribution company Elite Entertainment released the film on DVD in 1999, they retained the NC-17 version.

Goya in Bordeaux ( 1999 ) Spanish historical drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura about the life of Francisco de Goya.

* 1924 – František Vláčil, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist ( d. 1999 )

* 1909 – Riccardo Freda, Italian film director ( d. 1999 )

When the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project was released, the extensive marketing campaign claimed it to be a real documentary, compiled from footage discovered abandoned in a forest.

The film received an overwhelmingly positive reception and won four Guldbagge Awards ( Sweden's official film awards ) at the 1999 ceremony.

* Verzaubert International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Germany: Best film nomination ( 1999 )

Formerly an advocate of Altaic ( 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 ), now a critic of it.

* 1999 – Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian scholar, historian, and critic ( b. 1899 )

Barbara was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 1999 ).

* 1946 – Gene Siskel, American film critic ( d. 1999 )

One prominent French media critic is the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu who wrote among other books On Television ( New Press, 1999 ).

Tinky Winky started a still hinted-at controversy in 1999 because of his carrying a bag that looks much like a woman's handbag ( although he was first " outed " by the academic and cultural critic Andy Medhurst in a letter of July 1997 to The Face ).

* January 26 – Gene Siskel, American film critic ( d. 1999 )

In 1999, The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl said of Rockwell in ArtNews: “ Rockwell is terrific.

In 1999, critic Leonard Maltin opined that " like most of DeMille's movies, this may not be art, but it's hugely enjoyable ".

* Charles Acton ( critic ) ( 1914 – 1999 ), music critic

In 1998, reporter Paul Salopek won a Pulitzer for explanatory writing, and in 1999, architecture critic Blair Kamin won it for criticism.

* Ian Watt ( 9 March 1917 – 13 December 1999 ), literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University

" The critic John Lahr wrote in a 1999 New Yorker profile that, " To a large extent, Schreiber's professional shape-shifting and his uncanny instinct for isolating the frightened, frail, goofy parts of his characters are a result of being forced to adapt to his mother's eccentricities.

* Jerzy Waldorff ( 1910 – 1999 ), art critic and one of the benefactors of the Cemetery

A key academic critic of productivism is Amartya Sen, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Ian Watt ( March 9, 1917 – December 13, 1999 ) was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University.

His 1999 short stories collection Trist som faen (" Sad as hell ") sold in about 100 000m copies and received very favourable reviews, as did his collection from 2011, Talent for lykke, described by one critic as " xemplary literary creations on the ambivalent talent some desperate men have for luck ".

In 1999, film critic Mike Emery wrote, " Kubrick's camerawork was well on the way to finding the fluid style of his later work, and the sparse, low-budget circumstances give the film a raw, urgent sort of look.

In appraising a 1999 staging of Sheridan's comedy at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one critic found the " staunchly orthodox production " to be lacking, commenting that

 In December 1999, Barger linked to a passage by anti-zionist critic Israel Shahak, which drew a concerned response from a fellow blogger and led to allegations of anti-Semitism.

In January 1999, The Globe and Mail critic John Doyle commented on the channel's invariant hosting at the time: " It appears to be staffed by one person only, Jana Lynne White.

Eugene Kal " Gene " Siskel ( January 26, 1946February 20, 1999 ) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

* James Mavor Moore, writer, producer, critic, and educator, appointed 1999