1999 in film
The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's posthumous final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, the science-fiction film The Matrix, the animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the Best Picture-winner American Beauty, and the well-received The Green Mile. Other noteworthy releases include M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, David Fincher's Fight Club, Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's Being John Malkovich. The year also featured George Lucas' top-grossing Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated their 75th anniversaries in 1999.
Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 1999 by worldwide gross are as follows:| Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross |
| 1 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | 20th Century Fox | $924,305,084 |
| 2 | The Sixth Sense | Buena Vista | $672,806,292 |
| 3 | Toy Story 2 | Buena Vista | $511,358,276 |
| 4 | The Matrix | Warner Bros. | $465,974,198 |
| 5 | Tarzan | Buena Vista | $448,191,819 |
| 6 | The Mummy | Universal | $418,138,535 |
| 7 | Notting Hill | Universal | $363,889,678 |
| 8 | The World Is Not Enough | MGM / UIP | $361,832,400 |
| 9 | American Beauty | DreamWorks | $356,296,601 |
| 10 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | New Line | $312,383,487 |
Awards
1999 films
By country/region
- List of American films of 1999
- List of Argentine films of 1999
- List of Australian films of 1999
- List of Bangladeshi films of 1999
- List of British films of 1999
- List of Canadian films of 1999
- List of French films of 1999
- List of Hong Kong films of 1999
- List of Indian films of 1999
- * List of Hindi films of 1999
- * List of Kannada films of 1999
- * List of Malayalam films of 1999
- * List of Marathi films of 1999
- * List of Tamil films of 1999
- * List of Telugu films of 1999
- List of Japanese films of 1999
- List of Mexican films of 1999
- List of Pakistani films of 1999
- List of Russian films of 1999
- List of South Korean films of 1999
- List of Spanish films of 1999
By genre/medium
- List of action films of 1999
- List of animated feature films of 1999
- List of avant-garde films of 1999
- List of crime films of 1999
- List of comedy films of 1999
- List of drama films of 1999
- List of horror films of 1999
- List of science fiction films of 1999
- List of thriller films of 1999
- List of western films of 1999
Births
- January 1 - Diamond White, American actress
- January 4 - Gage Munroe, Canadian actor
- January 6 - Eliza Scanlen, Australian actress
- January 15 - Miray Daner, Turkish actress
- January 18 - Karan Brar, American actor
- January 29 - Madison Bailey, American actress
- February 3 - Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress
- February 7 - Bea Miller, American singer, songwriter and actress
- February 10 - Tiffany Espensen, American actress
- February 19 - Sonia Ben Ammar, French model, singer and actress
- March 5 - Yeri, South Korean singer and actress
- March 10 - Bruna Griphao, Brazilian actress
- March 25
- *Jin Ji-hee, South Korean actress
- *Mikey Madison, American actress
- April 27 - Brooklynn Proulx, Canadian former actress
- April 29 - Morgan Turner, American actress
- May 10 - Michael Gandolfini, American actor
- May 11 - Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress
- May 24 - Charlie Plummer, American actor
- May 25 - Brec Bassinger, American actress
- May 27 - Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress
- May 28 - Cameron Boyce, American actor
- May 30 - Sean Giambrone, American actor
- June 2 - Madison Leisle, American actress
- June 20 - Kayla Maisonet, American actress
- June 26 - Harley Quinn Smith, American actress
- June 27 - Chandler Riggs, American actor
- July 9 - Claire Corlett, Canadian actress
- July 18 - Onni Tommila, Finnish actor
- July 30 - Joey King, American actress
- August 13 - Eli Brown, American actor
- August 19 - Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor and musician
- August 22
- * Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
- * Ricardo Hurtado, American actor and singer
- September 1 - Jadagrace, American actress, dancer, singer and rapper
- September 2 - Gavin Casalegno, American actor and model
- September 4 - Ellie Darcey-Alden, English actress
- September 7 - Michelle Creber, Canadian actress
- September 14 - Emma Kenney, American actress
- September 17 - Daniel Huttlestone, English actor
- October 12 - Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician
- October 13 - Nell Tiger Free, English actress and singer
- October 15 - Bailee Madison, American actress
- October 21 - Carson MacCormac, Canadian actor
- October 22 - Charlie Wright , American actor
- October 31 - Danielle Rose Russell, American actress
- November 10
- * Kiernan Shipka, American actress
- * Michael Cimino, American actor
- November 14 - Jude Wright, English actor
- November 16 - Francesca Scorsese, American actress and filmmaker
- December 2 - Fred Hechinger, American actor
- December 7 - Bethany Whitmore, Australian actress
Deaths