Overview of the events of 1999 in film
The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick 's final film Eyes Wide Shut Pedro Almodóvar 's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother The Matrix The Iron Giant Toy Story 2 Tarzan South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Best Picture -winner American Beauty The Green Mile M. Night Shyamalan 's The Sixth Sense David Fincher 's Fight Club Sofia Coppola 's The Virgin Suicides Paul Thomas Anderson 's Magnolia 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:[1] [2]
Highest-grossing films of 1999
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 $511,358,276
4
The Matrix Warner Bros.
$465,974,198
5
Tarzan Buena Vista
$448,191,819
6
The Mummy Universal
$416,385,488
7
Notting Hill $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 By genre/medium 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
April 29 - Morgan Turner , American actress
May 10 - Michael Gandolfini , American actor
May 11 - Sabrina Carpenter , American actress
May 25 - Brec Bassinger , American actress
May 27 - Lily-Rose Depp , French-American actress
May 28 - Cameron Boyce , American actor (d. 2019)
May 30 - Sean Giambrone , American actor
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 19 - Tristan Lake Leabu , American actor and musician
August 22
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
October 12 - Ferdia Walsh-Peelo , Irish actor and musician
October 15 - Bailee Madison , American actress
October 31 - Danielle Rose Russell , American actress
November 10
November 14 - Jude Wright , English actor
December 7 - Bethany Whitmore , Australian actress Deaths 
