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The 21st Young Artist Awards ceremony (formerly known as the Youth in Film Awards), presented by the Young Artist Association, honored excellence of young performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television and theatre for the year 1999, and took place on March 19, 2000, at the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, California.[1][2][3]
| 21st Young Artist Awards | |
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| Awarded for | Achievement in 1999 in film and television |
| Date | March 19, 2000 |
| Site | Sportsmen's Lodge Studio City, California |
| Hosted by | Austin O'Brien Trevor O'Brien Cody McMains Michelle Trachtenberg Kaitlin Cullum Kimberly Cullum |
| Official website | YoungArtistAwards.org |
The announcer for the evening was William H. Bassett. The hosts for the evening were Austin O'Brien, Trevor O'Brien, Cody McMains, Michelle Trachtenberg, Kaitlin Cullum and Kimberly Cullum. Performers for the evening included, Girls On-Q, Adam Nicholson, Adam Wylie and Blake McIver Ewing.[4]
Established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Young Artist Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, theater and music.[1][5][6]
★ Bold indicates the winner in each category.[3]
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actor
★ Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense - Disney (Buena Vista Pictures)
- Lucas Black - Crazy in Alabama - Columbia Pictures
- Jeremy Blackman - Magnolia - New Line Cinema
- Noah Fleiss - Joe the King - Trimark
- Jake Gyllenhaal - October Sky - Universal
- Elijah Wood - The Bumblebee Flies Anyway - TSG Pictures
- Heath Ledger - 10 Things I Hate About You - Disney (Buena Vista Pictures)
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actress
★ Kimberly J. Brown - Tumbleweeds - Fine Line Features
- Brittany Murphy - Girl, Interrupted - Columbia Pictures
- Natalie Portman - Anywhere But Here - 20th Century Fox
- Christina Ricci - Sleepy Hollow - Paramount
- Michelle Williams - Dick - TriStar Pictures
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Supporting Young Actor
★ (tie) Reeve Carney - Snow Falling on Cedars - Universal
★ (tie) Ryan Merriman - The Deep End of the Ocean - Columbia Pictures
- Miles Marsico - Stuart Little - Columbia Pictures
- Cody McMains - Tumbleweeds - Fine Line Features
- Kyle Sabihy - Analyze This - Warner Brothers
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 10 Things I Hate About You - Disney (Buena Vista Pictures)
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Supporting Young Actress
★ Thora Birch - American Beauty - DreamWorks SKG
- Jena Malone - For Love of the Game - Universal
- Anna Paquin - A Walk on the Moon - Miramax
- Colleen Rennison - The Story of Us - Universal
- Michelle Trachtenberg - Inspector Gadget - Disney
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Young Actor Age Ten or Under
★ Jake Lloyd - Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace - 20th Century Fox
- Zachary David Cope - Stir of Echoes - Artisan Entertainment
- Jonathan Lipnicki - Stuart Little - Columbia Pictures
- Cole and Dylan Sprouse - Big Daddy - Columbia Pictures
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Young Actress Age Ten or Under
★ Scarlett Pomers - Happy, Texas - Miramax
- Penny Bae Bridges - True Crime - Warner Brothers
- Francesca Fisher-Eastwood - True Crime - Warner Brothers
- Alyssajo Norcliffe - Dream Parlor - Timeless Entertainment
Best Performance in an International Film: Young Performer
★ Wei Minzhi - Not One Less - China
- Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge - Angela's Ashes - Ireland
- Keith Chin - Anna and the King - Malaysia
- Lester Llansang - Saranggola (The Kite) - Philippines
- Manuel Lozano - Butterfly's Tongue - Spain
- Mohsen Ramezani - The Color of Paradise - Iran
- Madelief Verelst - Scratches in the Table - Holland
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Leading Young Actor
★ Mason Gamble - Anya's Bell - CBS
- Jake Dinwiddie - Au Pair - Fox Family Channel
- Andrew Ducote - Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story - USA Cable
- Jake LeDoux - Summer's End - Showtime
- Trevor Morgan - Genius - Disney Channel
- Jonathan Tucker - Mr. Music - Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Leading Young Actress
★ Jamie Renee Smith - My Last Love - ABC
- Kirsten Dunst - The Devil's Arithmetic - Showtime
- Alicia Morton - Annie - ABC
- Tegan Moss - Sea People - Showtime
- Bethany Richards - Hayley Wagner, Star - Showtime
- Kirsten Storms - Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century - Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Supporting Young Actor
★ Drake Bell - The Jack Bull - HBO
- Bill Switzer - Locked in Silence - Showtime
- Christopher Bell - Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End - CBS
- Brendan Fletcher - Summer's End - Showtime
- Miko Hughes - Lethal Vows - CBS
- Will Rothhaar - Black and Blue - CBS
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Supporting Young Actress
★ Hilary Duff - The Soul Collector - CBS
- Amanda Barfield - A Memory in My Heart - CBS
- Camilla Belle - Replacing Dad - CBS
- Sarah Francis - Summer's End - Showtime
- Alison Pill - Artists Specials: Degas and the Dancer - HBO
- Emmy Rossum - Genius - Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Young Actor Age Ten or Under
★ Marc Donato - Locked in Silence - Showtime
- Seth Adkins - The Promise - CBS
- Jake Sakson - Don't Look Under the Bed - Disney Channel
- Jacob Smith - Evolution's Child - USA
- Michal Suchánek - Aftershock: Earthquake in New York - CBS
- Hayden Tank - Replacing Dad - CBS
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Young Actress Age Ten or Under
★ Brittney Lee Harvey - Mr. Murder - ABC
- Courtney Chase - Nick of Time - ABC
- Emily Osment - Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End - CBS
- Hayden Panettiere - If You Believe - Lifetime
- Katie Volding - Smart House - Disney Channel
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Leading Young Actor
★ Austin O'Brien - Promised Land - CBS
- Brandon Gilberstadt - 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd - Nickelodeon
- Arjay Smith - The Journey of Allen Strange - Nickelodeon
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Leading Young Actress
★ Beverley Mitchell - 7th Heaven - Warner Brothers
- Majandra Delfino - Roswell - Warner Brothers
- Sarah Schaub - Promised Land - CBS
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Supporting Young Actor
★ Dan Byrd - Any Day Now - Lifetime
- Cameron Finley - Baywatch - Syndicated
- Robert Iler - The Sopranos - HBO
- Courtland Mead - NYPD Blue - ABC
- Max Peters - Hope Island - PAX
- Shane Sweet - The Journey of Allen Strange - Nickelodeon
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Supporting Young Actress
★ Shari Dyon Perry - Any Day Now - Lifetime
- Erin J. Dean - The Journey of Allen Strange - Nickelodeon
- Heather Matarazzo - Now and Again - CBS
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler - The Sopranos - HBO
- Julia Whelan - Once and Again - ABC
- Evan Rachel Wood - Profiler - NBC
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Young Actor Age Ten and Under
★ Myles Jeffrey - Early Edition - CBS
- Bobby Borriello - The Sopranos - HBO
- Jeffrey Schoeny - The X-Files - FOX
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Young Actress Age Ten and Under
★ Mae Middleton - Any Day Now - Lifetime
- Chea Courtney - Melrose Place - FOX
- Brittany Tiplady - Millennium - FOX
- Karle Warren - Judging Amy - CBS
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Guest Starring Young Actor
★ Tony C. Barriere - Any Day Now - Lifetime
- Carlo Alban - Touched by an Angel - CBS
- Bobby Edner - Touched by an Angel - CBS
- Chas Smith]- Chicago Hope - CBS
- Scott Terra - Charmed - Warner Brothers
- Jake Thomas - Touched by an Angel - CBS
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Guest Starring Young Actress
★ Kaitlin Cullum - 7th Heaven - Warner Brothers
- Ashley Edner - Party of Five - FOX
- Rachel Grate - ER - NBC
- Hallee Hirsh - Law and Order - NBC
- Aysia Polk - JAG - NBC
- Caitlin Wachs - The Pretender - NBC
Best Performance in a Comedy Series: Leading Young Actor
★ Thomas Dekker - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids - Syndicated
- Robert Ri'chard - Cousin Skeeter - Nickelodeon
- Lee Thompson Young - The Famous Jett Jackson - Disney Channel
Best Performance in a Comedy Series: Leading Young Actress
★ Georgina Sherrington - The Worst Witch - HBO
- Amanda Bynes - The Amanda Show - Nickelodeon
- Mila Kunis - That '70s Show - FOX
Best Performance in a Comedy Series: Supporting Young Actor
★ Andrew Ducote - Thanks - CBS
- Ryan Sommers Baum - The Famous Jett Jackson - Disney Channel
- Daniel Clark - I Was a Sixth Grade Alien - Fox Family Channel
- Dee Jay Daniels - The Hughleys - ABC
- Leon Curtis Frierson - All That - Nickelodeon
- Eric Lloyd - Jesse - NBC
Best Performance in a Comedy Series: Supporting Young Actress
★ Kerry Duff - The Famous Jett Jackson - Disney Channel
- Ashley Lyn Cafagna - Saved by the Bell: The New Class - NBC
- Amy Centner - Thanks - CBS
- Courtney Peldon - Home Improvement - ABC
- Brianne Prather - The Jersey - Disney Channel
- Alexa Vega - Ladies Man - CBS
- Shawna Waldron - Ladies Man - CBS
Best Performance in a Comedy Series: Young Performer Age Ten or Under
★ Sara Paxton - Working - NBC
- Ashley Monique Clark - The Hughleys - ABC
- Rachel David - Movie Stars - Warner Brothers
- Ashley & Lindsey Trefger - Home Improvement - ABC
Best Performance in a Comedy Series: Guest Starring Young Performer
★ J.B. Gaynor - Boy Meets World - ABC
- Cory Buck - Sports Night - ABC
- Alexandra Gilliams - Sabrina, the Teenage Witch - ABC
- Rachel Glenn - Cousin Skeeter - Nickelodeon
- Matt Weinberg - Friends - NBC
- Joey Zimmerman - Cupid - ABC
Best Performance in a Soap Opera: Young Actor
★ David Lago - The Young and the Restless - CBS
- Joseph Cross - As the World Turns - CBS
- Josh Ryan Evans - Passions - CBS
- Jesse McCartney - All My Children - ABC
- Logan O'Brien - General Hospital - ABC
- Nicholas Pappone - The Young and the Restless CBS
Best Performance in a Soap Opera: Young Actress
★ Taylor Anne Mountz - Passions - NBC
- Chea Courtney - Passions - NBC
- Adrienne Frantz - The Bold and the Beautiful - CBS
- Carly Schroeder - Port Charles - CBS
- Brittany Snow - Guiding Light - CBS
- Erin Torpey - One Life to Live - NBC
Best Performance in a Voice-Over (TV or Feature Film): Young Actor
★ Eli Marienthal - The Iron Giant - Warner Brothers
- Joseph Ashton - Rocket Power - Nickelodeon
- Michael James Caloz - Arthur - KCET
- Rickey D'Shon Collins - Recess - ABC
- Alex D. Linz - Tarzan - Disney
Best Performance in a Voice-Over (TV or Feature Film): Young Actress
★ Aria Noelle Curzon - Dan Danger - Nickelodeon
- Kristin Fairlie - Little Bear - Nickelodeon
- Olivia Hack - Hey Arnold! - Nickelodeon
- Emily Hart - Sabrina: The Animated Series - UPN
- Ashley Johnson - Recess - ABC
Best Performance in a Feature Film or TV Movie: Young Ensemble
★ Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season - Warner Brothers
- Zachary Browne, Rachel David, Marissa Leigh, Joe Pichler and Caitlin Wachs
- Annie - ABC
- Erin Adams, Sarah Hyland, Lalaine, Alicia Morton, Nanea Miyata, Marissa Rago and Danelle Wilson
- The Artists Specials: Mary Cassatt, an American Impressionist - HBO
- Emma Isherwood, Jonathan Koensgen and Charlotte Sullivan
- Music of the Heart - Miramax
- Michael Angarano, Melay Araya, Henry Dinhoffer, Jean Luke Figueroa, Victoria Gomez, Justin Spaulding, Zoe Sternbach-Taubman and Jade Yorker
Best Performance in a TV Series: Young Ensemble
★ The Jersey - Disney Channel
- Courtnee Draper, Michael Galeota, Theo Greenly and Jermaine Williams
- Freaks and Geeks - NBC
- John Francis Daley, James Franco, Sarah Hagen, Jarrett Lennon, Samm Levine, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Martin Starr
- Get Real - FOX
- Jesse Eisenberg, Kyle Brent Gibson, Anne Hathaway and Eric Christian Olsen
- Little Men - PAX
- Trevor Blumas, Alex Campbell, Brittney Irvin, Corey Sevier and Rachel Skarsten
- Safe Harbor - WB
- Orlando Brown, Christopher Khayman Lee, Jeremy Lelliott, Chyler Lleigh and Jamie Williams
- So Weird - Disney Channel
Best Family TV Movie or Pilot: Network
★ Anya's Bell - CBS
- Annie - ABC
- Behind the Mask - CBS
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Movie - CBS
- My Last Love - ABC
- Sabrina, Down Under - ABC
- Secret of Giving - CBS
- The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn - CBS
Best Family TV Movie or Pilot: Cable
★ Summer's End - Showtime
- The Thirteenth Year - Disney Channel
- A Lesson Before Dying - HBO
- Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story - Showtime
- Hayley Wagner, Star - Showtime
- Horse Sense - Disney Channel
- Sea People - Showtime
- The Artist Specials: Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist - HBO
Best Animated TV Show or Series
★ Sabrina: The Animated Series - ABC
- Angela Anaconda - Fox Family Channel
- Bear in the Big Blue House - Disney Channel
- Blue's Clues - Nickelodeon
- Mike, Lu & Og - Cartoon Network
- Recess - ABC
Best Family TV Drama Series
★ Judging Amy - CBS
- 7th Heaven - Warner Brothers
- 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd - Nickelodeon
- Hope Island - PAX
- Little Men - PAX
- So Weird - Disney Channel
- Touched by an Angel - CBS
Best Family TV Comedy Series
★ Freaks and Geeks - NBC
- Animals Are People Too - PAX
- The Famous Jett Jackson - Disney Channel
- The Hughleys - ABC
- The Jersey - Disney Channel
- Kids Say the Darndest Things - CBS
Best Family Feature Film for 1999: Animated
★ Toy Story 2 - Disney
- The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland - Columbia Pictures
- The Iron Giant - Warner Brothers
- Pokémon: The First Movie - Warner Brothers
- Tarzan - Disney
Best Family Feature Film for 1999: Comedy
★ Stuart Little - Columbia Pictures
- Inspector Gadget - Disney
- Muppets from Space - Columbia Pictures
- Never Been Kissed - 20th Century Fox
- The Other Sister - Touchstone
Best Family Feature Film for 1999: Drama
★ Music of the Heart - Miramax
- Anna and the King - 20th Century Fox
- For Love of the Game - Universal
- October Sky - Universal
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace - 20th Century Fox
- The Straight Story - Disney
Best International Film
★ Not One Less - China
- The Butterfly's Tongue - Spain
- The Color of Paradise - Iran
- Saranggola (The Kite) - Philippines
- Scratches in the Table - Holland
Outstanding Young Performer in Theater
Outstanding Young Performers in a Television Commercial
★ Hallie Kate Eisenberg - Pepsi
★ Connor Matheus - K-Mart
The Jackie Coogan Award
Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Motion Pictures
★ George Lucas - Producer, Lucasfilm
The Mickey Rooney Award
Former Child Star Life Achievement Award
★ Lucille Bliss - voice of "Anastasia" in Disney's Cinderella (1950)
The Michael Landon Award
Community Service to Youth
★ Kids On Stage For A Better World
Young Artist Awards Scholarship
★ R. J. Arnett
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