The 1998 event was pitched as the " last Greenbelt of its kind ", with two festivals planned for 1999: a youth-oriented event " Freestate " in partnership with Spring Harvest to be held the August Bank Holiday weekend and a more family-oriented " Greenbelt " to be held over the last weekend in July at Cheltenham Racecourse.

In early 1999 plans for Freestate collapsed and its embryonic programme was hastily rolled into the Greenbelt planned for Cheltenham.

Georgia Avenue-Petworth opened on September 18, 1999 as part of a connecting extension of the Green Line between U Street and Fort Totten, allowing trains to travel between Anacostia and Greenbelt.

In 1999, Cronenberg was inducted onto Canada's Walk of Fame and was awarded with the Silver Bear Award at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.

Its international awards include the Teddy award at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival.

* Atlantic Film Festival: Best International Feature ( 1999 )

* Molodist International Film Festival, Ukraine: Best Film Award ; Best Full-Length Fiction Film Award ; Fipresci Prize ( won by Lukas Moodysson ); Youth Jury Award Full-Length Feature Film ( 1999 )

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

* 1999: Readings from Colette, director Roger Hodgeman, Melbourne Festival, Australie

* 1999: Nocturne for lovers, director Roger Hodgeman, Melbourne Festival, Australie

He was a featured clinicians at the 1994, 1999 and 2002 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions and the 1997 Modern Drummer Festival, and performed in videos at two of those events.

The film was nominated for the Palme d ' Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

Summerfest attracts between 800, 000 and 1, 000, 000 people each year, promoting itself as " The World's Largest Music Festival ", a title certified by the Guinness World Records since 1999 .< ref >

Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival performed West Side Story in 1999, starring Tyley Ross as Tony and Ma-Anne Dionisio as Maria, and again in 2009 to rave reviews, with Chilina Kennedy as Maria and Paul Nolan as Tony.

Blur at the Roskilde Festival, 1999

In 1999 he received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

American Beauty had its European premiere at the London Film Festival on November 18, 1999 ; in January 2000, it began to screen in various territories outside North America.

Since 1999, he has hosted the annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

The film won the documentary award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2000.

In 1999, Clooney founded the Rosemary Clooney Music Festival, held annually in Maysville, her hometown.

An annual Lewes Guitar Festival which started in 1999 has not operated since the late 2000s.

* The Pawpaw Festival has been held annually since 1999 in September at Lake Snowden just southwest of Athens, near Albany.

It included two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis, Born to Be Wild ( 1995 ) and “ Easy Rider ”: Shaking the Cage ( 1999 ), documentaries about the making and history of the film, television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, and a new video interview with BBS cofounder Steve Blauner.

Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay and directed a 97-minute film version, filmed in Summer 1998, and released on May 19, 1999 at the Cannes Film Festival.

* 1999: Best Film, Verzaubert International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: My Own Country

During 1999, they played on Reading Festival and again at Dynamo.

The film was screened out of competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

Because of the necessary construction work, the move took until 1999 to complete.

Edmund Stoiber took over the CSU leadership in 1999.

As evidence of a serious recession became clear in 1999, the government took a number of steps.

Ismail Omar Guelleh took the oath of office as the second President of the Republic of Djibouti on May 8, 1999, with the support of an alliance between the RPP and the government-recognized section of the Afar-led FRUD.

Dramas also took a turn with existentialist thrillers such as Fight Club ( 1999 ) and the tale of suburban angst American Beauty ( 1999 ).

Scraping into the finals the year previous, Essendon's emergence in 1999 took the league by surprise, finishing atop of the premiership ladder and entering the finals as premiership favourites, having beaten fellow contenders North Melbourne twice during the regular season in convincing fashion.

In other areas of the West Bank, transfer of powers took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement.

The NNP maintained and affirmed its hold on power when it took all 15 parliamentary seats in the January 1999 elections.

To create buzz for the project, Brooks took on the identity of Gaines in the October 1999 album Garth Brooks in ...

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

President Abdurrahman Wahid took office in October 1999, and Indonesia and the IMF signed another EFF in January 2000.

In 1999, he took his girlfriend of several years to the Academy Awards, and thanked her during the acceptance speech for his Best Actor award.

" The Basic Law took force upon handover of sovereignty from Portugal on 20 December 1999, and is to remain in effect for fifty years ( that is, until 2049 ).

Gradual political reforms in the 1990s resulted in the establishment of a bicameral legislature in 1997, and with the death of King Hassan II of Morocco in 1999, the more liberal-minded Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, who assumed the title of Mohammed VI, took the throne.

Derrick recorded a solo EP under the moniker Today's Sounds in 1996, and later on in 1999 took charge of re-issuing the Puppets ' original seven records on Rykodisc as well as putting out their first live album, Live in Montana.

In September 1999, Lewinsky took this interest further by beginning to sell a line of handbags bearing her name under the company name The Real Monica, Inc.

These were followed by Gregory Benford's The Martian Race ( 1999 ), Geoffrey A. Landis's Mars Crossing ( 2000 ), and Robert Zubrin's First Landing ( 2002 ), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focussed expedition strategies evolved in the late 1990s, mostly building on the concepts of Mars Direct.

He took up the post on 1 September 1999.

There has been a strong military coup culture, between 1966 and 1999 10 Military Coups in Nigeria took place.

The Mets broke their own record five times before the Yankees took it back in 1999.

Moscoso took office on September 1, 1999.

Since over 90 % of import transactions took place at the parallel rate, inflation took off, with 12-month inflation growing from 0. 5 % at the end of 1996, to 23 % at the end of 1998, and 113 % at the end of 1999.

The 1999 team would be the last playoff-bound team for over a decade, as the Rangers took a step backwards at the beginning of the new millennium.