In Brazil, until 1999, the three Armed Forces remained in independent ministries.

The current official position of the party is that the " Republic of China ( Taiwan )" is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan ( similar philosophy of self-determination ), based on the " Resolution on Taiwan's Future " in 1999.

In October 1999, the Indonesian parliament ( MPR ) revoked the decree that annexed East Timor, and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor ( UNTAET ) assumed responsibility for governing East Timor until it officially became an independent state in May 2002.

It became an independent nation in 2002 ; and Macau was handed over to the Chinese as per a treaty in 1999.

In 1999, Frost moved to a small independent label called Celeb-entertainment records.

In Sofia Coppola's independent film The Virgin Suicides ( 1999 ), Dunst played the role of troubled adolescent Lux Lisbon.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

Vickers remained independent until 1999 when the then Vickers plc was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc who sold the defence arm to Alvis plc, which became Alvis Vickers.

More independent but clearly to the left of the political spectrum are the Centro de Investigaciones de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarrollo ( CIDOB ) founded in 1973 ; and the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior ( FRIDE ) established in 1999 by Diego Hidalgo and main driving force behind projects such as the Club de Madrid, a group of democratic former heads of state and government, or the Foreign Policy Spanish Edition.

Hensley served as the minister of the congregation and President of the Board of Directors until his death in 1999, at which time there were many independent branches of the ULC worldwide.

She gained critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films She's the One ( 1996 ), Office Space ( 1999 ), The Good Girl ( 2002 ) and Friends with Money ( 2006 ).

The Portuguese empire ended de facto in 1999 when Macau was returned to China, and de jure in 2002 when East Timor was independent.

Following the end of Indonesian occupation in 1999, and a United Nations administered transition period, East Timor became formally independent in 2002.

After 1999, Sierra almost entirely ceased to be a developer of games and, as time went on, instead became a publisher of games by independent developers.

The paper is published twice a week under the auspices of Washington University Student Media, Inc., an independent non-for-profit organization incorporated in 1999.

The independent scholar Marianne Luban had published similar speculation in 1999 in an article posted on the Internet, entitled " Do We Have the Mummy of Nefertiti?

Crisp's last role was in an independent film called American Mod ( 1999 ), and his last full-feature movie was HomoHeights ( also released as Happy Heights, 1996 ).

It is also the home town of Rob Ray co-founder of Aurora Digital Films, which shot a low-budget independent film in 1999 titled " Cramweek.

Berkshire Hills Music Academy ( BHMA ), founded in 1999 and opened in 2001, is a private post-secondary residential school providing young adults, with learning or developmental disabilities, the opportunity to live in a collegiate setting and acquire independent living skills while developing their musical potential.

The Springfield / Ozark Mountain Ducks were an independent baseball team playing in the Central Baseball League from 1998 to 2003 ; Price Cutter Park, which was built in early 1999, was their home field.

* A more recent single volume is another originally independent, but now church-authorized and still controversial, 1999 work by a non-Christian Scientist, Gillian Gill ( ISBN 0-7382-0227-4 ).

In 1999, the Church was separated from the state and became an independent organization, but the ruling body of the church is still decided by public voting ( among members of the church ), and mostly consists of the political parties.

After the referendum on independence on August 30, 1999, East Timor became an independent nation on May 20 2002 and it has started initiating foreign relations with the rest of the global community.

In November 2005, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Ahtisaari as Special Envoy for the Kosovo status process which was to determine whether Kosovo, having been administered by the United Nations since 1999, should become independent or remain a province of Serbia.

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 )