1999 in film 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 science-fiction hit "The Matrix", the Deep Canvas-pioneering Disney animated feature "Tarzan" and Best Picture-winner "American Beauty" and the well-received "The Green Mile", as well as the animated works "The Iron Giant", "Toy Story 2", "Stuart Little" and "". Other noteworthy releases included Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film "Being John Malkovich" and M. Night Shyamalan's breakout film "The Sixth Sense", the controversial "Fight Club" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia". The year also featured
Helen Lester writing children's literature. Her works are mainly influenced by her old second-grade students who helped produced characters such as Tacky the Penguin, Pinkerton the Pig and Fragility the Hippopotamus. Lester's first children's book was published in 1979 and her writing career took off from there. She has now published more than two dozen books. Lester has also illustrated a few of her own books, but typically illustrator Lynn Munsinger has produced the illustration for Lester's books. Lester and Munsinger have collaborated on over a dozen children books. Beyond writing, Lester spends time traveling the country, visiting schools and encouraging children