1996

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Fargo

Romeo + Juliet

Scream

Twister*

BEST DIRECTOR:

Peter Chan, Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Joel Coen, Fargo

Cheryl Dunye, The Watermelon Woman

Baz Luhrmann, Romeo + Juliet*

Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, Bound

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Kevin Costner, Tin Cup

Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire

Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo + Juliet

William H. Macy, Fargo

Jeffrey Wright, Basquiat*

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Brenda Blethyn, Secrets & Lies

Maggie Cheung, Comrades: Almost a Love Story*

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Secrets & Lies

Frances McDormand, Fargo

Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Fargo*

Foxfire

Scream

Secrets & Lies

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Breaking the Waves

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

The English Patient

Fargo*

Romeo + Juliet

BEST EDITING:

Bound

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Fargo

Romeo + Juliet*

Trainspotting

BEST MUSIC:

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

DragonHeart

Fargo

Romeo + Juliet*

That Thing You Do!

BEST PRODUCTION:

The English Patient

Mission: Impossible

The Rock

Romeo + Juliet

Twister*

BEST CAST:

Beautiful Girls

The Birdcage

Fargo

Scream*

Twister

Honorary award: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne for their breakthrough film La Promesse.

1997

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Good Will Hunting

The Ice Storm*

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

The Sweet Hereafter

BEST DIRECTOR:

Michael Haneke, Funny Games

Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential

Ang Lee, The Ice Storm*

Andrew Niccol, Gattaca

Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Russell Crowe, L.A. Confidential

Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting

Ian Holm, The Sweet Hereafter

Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting*

Ray Winstone, Nil by Mouth

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Joan Allen, The Ice Storm

Helena Bonham Carter, The Wings of the Dove

Pam Grier, Jackie Brown*

Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets

Christina Ricci, The Ice Storm

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Good Will Hunting*

The Ice Storm

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

The Sweet Hereafter

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Gattaca

Happy Together

The Ice Storm

L.A. Confidential*

Lost Highway

BEST EDITING:

Boogie Nights

The Ice Storm

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

Titanic*

BEST MUSIC:

Gattaca*

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

The Sweet Hereafter

Titanic

BEST PRODUCTION:

Air Force One

Con Air

Face/Off

L.A. Confidential*

Titanic

BEST CAST:

Con Air

The Full Monty*

The Ice Storm

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

Honorary award: Mychael Danna for masterfully scoring The Ice Storm and The Sweet Hereafter.

1998

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Can’t Hardly Wait

Desert Blue*

Gods and Monsters

Saving Private Ryan

The Thin Red Line

BEST DIRECTOR:

Vincent Gallo, Buffalo '66

Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line*

Christopher Nolan, Following

Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan

Thomas Vinterberg, The Celebration

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski

Nicolas Cage, Snake Eyes

Brendan Fraser and Ian McKellen, Gods and Monsters*

Edward Norton, American History X

Billy Bob Thornton, A Simple Plan

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth

Neve Campbell, Wild Things*

Lindsay Lohan, The Parent Trap

Fernanda Montenegro, Central Station

Meg Ryan, You’ve Got Mail

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Can’t Hardly Wait*

Desert Blue

Shakespeare in Love

Show Me Love

Wild Things

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Following

Great Expectations

Saving Private Ryan

The Thin Red Line*

Wild Things

BEST EDITING:

Out of Sight

Run Lola Run*

Saving Private Ryan

The Thin Red Line

Wild Things

BEST MUSIC:

Great Expectations

Pleasantville

Run Lola Run

Saving Private Ryan

The Thin Red Line*

BEST PRODUCTION:

Dark City

The Mask of Zorro

Saving Private Ryan*

Shakespeare in Love

The Thin Red Line

BEST CAST:

Can’t Hardly Wait

Desert Blue*

The Faculty

Saving Private Ryan

The Thin Red Line

Honorary award: Gwyneth Paltrow for her fabulous performances in Great Expectations, Shakespeare in Love, and Sliding Doors.

1999

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

American Movie*

Being John Malkovich

Eyes Wide Shut

Magnolia

The War Zone

BEST DIRECTOR:

Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Rosetta

Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich

Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut*

Tim Roth, The War Zone

Julie Taymor, Titus

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Russell Crowe, The Insider*

Tom Cruise, Eyes Wide Shut

Jude Law, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Forest Whitaker, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Ray Winstone, The War Zone

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Lara Belmont, The War Zone*

Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted

Nicole Kidman, Eyes Wide Shut

Cecilia Roth, All About My Mother

Julia Stiles, 10 Things I Hate About You

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Being John Malkovich*

Election

The Insider

Magnolia

The War Zone

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Eyes Wide Shut

Girl on the Bridge

The Insider

The Talented Mr. Ripley*

Titus

BEST EDITING:

Any Given Sunday*

Bringing Out the Dead

Go

The Insider

The Matrix

BEST MUSIC:

American Beauty*

The Iron Giant

Magnolia

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Tarzan

BEST PRODUCTION:

The Matrix

The Mummy

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Titus*

BEST CAST:

Any Given Sunday

Being John Malkovich

Cruel Intentions

Magnolia*

Pushing Tin

Honorary award: Chris Smith and subject Mark Borchardt for their passionate depiction of indie filmmaking in American Movie.

2000

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Almost Famous

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Gladiator

In the Mood for Love

Wonder Boys*

BEST DIRECTOR:

Curtis Hanson, Wonder Boys

Wong Kar-Wai, In the Mood for Love

Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*

Ridley Scott, Gladiator

Béla Tarr, Werckmeister Harmonies

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Christian Bale, American Psycho

Russell Crowe, Gladiator*

Michael Douglas, Wonder Boys

Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love

Joaquin Phoenix, Quills

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Juliette Binoche, Code Unknown

Sandra Bullock, 28 Days

Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love

Sanaa Lathan, Love & Basketball

Ziyi Zhang, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Almost Famous

Amores Perros

Panic

Shanghai Noon

Wonder Boys*

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Gladiator

In the Mood for Love*

O' Brother, Where Art Thou?

Werckmeister Harmonies

BEST EDITING:

Almost Famous*

Memento

Requiem for a Dream

Traffic

Wonder Boys

BEST MUSIC:

Gladiator

High Fidelity

Requiem for a Dream

Werckmeister Harmonies

Wonder Boys*

BEST PRODUCTION:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Gladiator*

In the Mood for Love

Mission: Impossible II

The Patriot

BEST CAST:

Almost Famous

Bring It On

Charlie's Angels

Gladiator

Wonder Boys*

Honorary award: Björk for her exceptional acting and composing in Dancer in the Dark.

2001

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Ghost World

Ocean’s Eleven*

The Royal Tenenbaums

Spirited Away

BEST DIRECTOR:

Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums

David Lynch, Mulholland Drive

Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away

Steven Soderbergh, Ocean’s Eleven

Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence*

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

George Clooney, Ocean’s Eleven*

Anthony LaPaglia, Lantana

Haley Joel Osment, A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Denzel Washington, Training Day

Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Halle Berry, Monster's Ball

Thora Birch, Ghost World

Marisa Tomei, In the Bedroom

Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive

Reese Witherspoon, Legally Blonde*

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Ghost World

Ocean’s Eleven

The Royal Tenenbaums*

Shrek

Y Tu Mamá También

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Amélie*

The Man Who Wasn't There

Moulin Rouge!

The Royal Tenenbaums

BEST EDITING:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Amélie

Black Hawk Down

Ocean's Eleven*

The Royal Tenenbaums

BEST MUSIC:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone*

Josie and the Pussycats

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Ocean's Eleven

Spirited Away

BEST PRODUCTION:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence*

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Moulin Rouge!

BEST CAST:

Gosford Park

A Knight’s Tale

Lovely & Amazing

Ocean’s Eleven*

The Royal Tenenbaums

Honorary award: Cameron Crowe for his brilliant remake Vanilla Sky.

2002

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Catch Me If You Can

Hero

Igby Goes Down

Minority Report

Panic Room*

BEST DIRECTOR:

Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love

David Fincher, Panic Room*

Paul Greengrass, Bloody Sunday

Steven Spielberg, Minority Report

Zhang Yimou, Hero

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Kieran Culkin, Igby Goes Down

Matt Damon, The Bourne Identity*

Leonardo DiCaprio, Catch Me If You Can

Hugh Grant, About a Boy

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Love Liza

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Fairuza Balk, Personal Velocity

Halle Berry, Die Another Day

Claire Danes, Igby Goes Down

Jodie Foster, Panic Room*

Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Adaptation.

Igby Goes Down*

The Man Without a Past

Signs

Talk to Her

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Far From Heaven

Gerry

Hero*

Irreversible

Road to Perdition

BEST EDITING:

Bloody Sunday*

City of God

Femme Fatale

Minority Report

Panic Room

BEST MUSIC:

25th Hour

Catch Me If You Can*

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Panic Room

Signs

BEST PRODUCTION:

Chicago

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Minority Report*

Road to Perdition

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

BEST CAST:

Chicago*

The Hours

Igby Goes Down

Insomnia

Spider-Man

Honorary award: Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak for their fascinating documentary Cinemania.