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
Gabriel Lester he applied and was admitted in 1998. Before starting at the Rijksakademie, Lester traveled to Iceland, where he lived for five months farming and writing a collection of short stories. Upon his return to Amsterdam, Lester self-published a selection of the stories in a book called “Over and Done With”. In January 1999, Gabriel Lester started a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie, with the intention to do further research into cinema and produce some short films. However, in April of that year, shortly after an internal open-studios, Lester decided to avoid making film-art or video-art and rather create cinematic experiences