53rd British Academy Film Awards

53rd British Academy Film Awards
Date9 April 2000
SiteOdeon Leicester Square
Hosted byJack Docherty
Highlights
Best FilmAmerican Beauty
Best British FilmEast Is East
Best ActorKevin Spacey
American Beauty
Best ActressAnnette Bening
American Beauty
Most awardsAmerican Beauty (6)
Most nominationsAmerican Beauty (14)

The 53rd British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 9 April 2000 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1999. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 1999.[1][2][3]

Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (and previously won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey), Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing, and Original Music; Spacey previously won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Maggie Smith (Tea with Mussolini) won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. Pedro Almodóvar, director of All About My Mother, won for his direction. East Is East was voted Outstanding British Film.

The nominations were announced on 1 March 2000 and the ceremony took place at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, hosted by Jack Docherty.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Full list of Bafta winners". BBC News. 9 April 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. ^ "American Beauty shines at Baftas". BBC News. 9 April 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  3. ^ Gibbons, Fiachra (10 April 2000). "Bafta award choices scorn the Oscar line". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Bafta nominations in full". BBC News. 1 March 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  5. ^ "All right on the night". The Guardian. 7 April 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.