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34th NSFC Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 8, 2000 </div>
Best Film (tie): <br> <big> Being John Malkovich </big><br>and<br><big>Topsy-Turvy</big> </div> The 34th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2000, honored the best filmmaking of 1999.
1. Being John Malkovich<br> 1. Topsy-Turvy<br> 3. Election
1. Mike Leigh – Topsy-Turvy<br> 2. David O. Russell – Three Kings<br> 3. Sam Mendes – American Beauty
1. Russell Crowe – The Insider<br> 2. Jim Broadbent – Topsy-Turvy<br> 3. Kevin Spacey – American Beauty
1. Reese Witherspoon – Election<br> 2. Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry<br> 3. Kate Winslet – Holy Smoke
1. Christopher Plummer – The Insider<br> 2. Philip Seymour Hoffman – Magnolia and The Talented Mr. Ripley<br> 3. Haley Joel Osment – The Sixth Sense
1. Chloë Sevigny – Boys Don't Cry<br> 2. Julianne Moore – Magnolia, Cookie's Fortune, A Map of the World and An Ideal Husband<br> 3. Samantha Morton – Sweet and Lowdown
1. Charlie Kaufman – Being John Malkovich<br> 2. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – Election<br> 3. Alan Ball – American Beauty
1. Conrad L. Hall – American Beauty<br> 2. Emmanuel Lubezki – Sleepy Hollow<br> 3. Freddie Francis – The Straight Story
1. Autumn Tale (Conte d'automne)<br> 2. The Dreamlife of Angels (La vie rêvée des anges)<br> 3. All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
1. Buena Vista Social Club<br> 2. '<br> 3. American Movie