The Hindsight Awards: best movies of 1999. Round 1: nomination

[Lvl 2 Expert]

I'm going to start a little experiment here. It's a well known fact that not all things that are a hit become a classic, nor the other way around. So as 2019 is fading before our eyes, I'm going to organize an award show in the playground for movies released in 1999. The contest will be decided in 3 rounds with this thread hosting the first, which work like this:

Round 1: Nomination. (You are here)
In round 1 anyone can name movies that were originally released for the first time in 1999. Any and every movie that is named will make it into round 2.

Round 2: Rating.
In round 2 the full list of movies suggested in round 1 will be posted. Everyone can rate any and all movies they want to rate on a scale from 0 to 5. Which movies move on to the next round is determined not by their total score, but by their average rating. A movie that only a few people have an opinion about has just as much of a chance to make it as one that everyone scored. The only exception is that a movie must have been rated by at least 2 people to be eligible. If you were the only person here who remembers it, it was probably not the best movie of 1999.

Round 3: Voting.
The 6 highest rated movies from round 2 (why 6? Because it's a good number) will move on to the voting round. This will be run using some sort of preferential/ranked vorig system, possibly Borda count or single transferable vote. This will be determined before voting starts. Anyone can vote by listing all 6 movies on the shortlist from best to worst. The winner will be crowned the best movie of 1999.

The nomination round will run until Friday January 3 2020. Ones every time zone on the planet has rolled over to Saturday the nominations will be closed.

I will start with a basic list of the ten highest grossing movies (worldwide) of the year, any movie that won any Academy Award (non-documentary, non-short film), some other noteworthy films and a few personal favorites, just to remove any suspicion of impartiality. This list (listed alphabetically, not counting A, An or The) is posted below. Curious to know which of your favorite movies came out in 1999? Wikipedia has you covered!

All About My Mother
American Beauty
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Boys Don't Cry
The Cider House Rules
Entrapment
Fight Club
Galaxy Quest
The Green Mile
Girl, Interrupted
The Iron Giant
The Matrix
The Mummy
Notting Hill
The Red Violin
Sleepy Hollow
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
The Sixth Sense
Tarzan
The Thirteenth Floor
Three Kings
Topsy-Turvy
Toy Story 2
The World Is Not Enough

(I will quite possibly be back to post more personal favorites, but I'm waiting for a bit to not make my opening post too opinionated.)

Ready? Nominate!

[Lurkmoar]

Fight Club.

Partly because of a changed line that was so horrific that the studio wanted something else... and the director gave them something WORSE.

Also, Ed Norton and Brad Pitt beating each up. Plus Meatloaf!

[Peelee]

Fight Club.

Already on the list.

Also, I ain't doing the talleys so I don't need to be impartial. Fight Club stunk.

[BeerMug Paladin]

Checking over the page of releases, nothing there strikes me as worth adding that isn't already on the list so far. I've not seen a lot of these movies, but I already do know what my best is from among the ones I have seen. With Galaxy Quest on the list already, is there even a chance of anything else winning?

[comicshorse]

Ravenous
13th Warrior
Ride With the Devil

[Aedilred]

The best film of 1999 is already on the list, but I'll add the following, which I think deserve consideration:

Cruel Intentions
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Dogma

[GrayDeath]

American Beauty
Dogma
eXistenZ
Fight Club
Galaxy Quest
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense
The 13th Warrior

Honorable Mention (meaning I liked them particularly but dont think they deserve to win)
Bicentennial man
Wild WIld West

[JoshL]

That was a great year! Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, eXistenZ, Eyes Wide Shut, The Straight Story, The Virgin Suicides and Titus all probably should be on the list. For my money, my favorite of the year might be Ghost Dog. I loved Audition, Bringiing out the Dead, In Dreams, Monkeybone, 8mm, Boondock Saints, and Bowfinger, though none of those I would consider "best". Weirdest movie that I love on that list is probably Attack The Gas Station!

But honestly the one I've watched the most times of anything there is easily the remake of House On Haunted Hill. I like horror, and that's a fun one!

[Aedilred]

How did I miss Being John Malkovich?!

Yes, 1999 was a truly great year for film. Which makes it all the more puzzling that American Beauty took the oscar. It's a perfectly reasonable film (although it is dated) but you have to look back and go "...really? That?"

(Leaving aside the Kevin Spacey factor completely, obviously).

[Lvl 2 Expert]

I think you guys actually hit all the ones I might have seriously suggested. I am adding both Lake Placid and Deep Blue Sea on general principles.

I am away for the weekend, so I'll compile the list and open thread 2 next week.

[Eldan]

That was a great year! Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, eXistenZ, Eyes Wide Shut, The Straight Story, The Virgin Suicides and Titus all probably should be on the list. For my money, my favorite of the year might be Ghost Dog. I loved Audition, Bringiing out the Dead, In Dreams, Monkeybone, 8mm, Boondock Saints, and Bowfinger, though none of those I would consider "best". Weirdest movie that I love on that list is probably Attack The Gas Station!

But honestly the one I've watched the most times of anything there is easily the remake of House On Haunted Hill. I like horror, and that's a fun one!

I'm not even sure I liked Ghost Dog when I saw it, but it was certainly very interesting. So...

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai.

Also, Eyes Wide Shut should probably be on the list, even if I'd call it Kubrick's worst movie.

Checking which Japanese movies came out that year on that Wiki list... none I've seen.
German: none really worth mentioning. Lola Rennt won a lot of awards that year but came out in 1998.

PS: ALso, my brother would murder me if I did not nominate "Werner – Volles Rooäää!!!", a really stupid German cartoon that I can guarantee no one outside Germany has ever heard of.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

It's up. I hope I didn't miss anything.

Thanks for nominating!