Top 10
1. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace £3.53m.
2. Notting Hill £2.48m.
3. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me £2.35m.
4. American Pie £2.25m.
5. The Sixth Sense £2.1m.
6. A Bug's Life £1.74m
7. Waking Ned £1.72m.
8. The World Is Not Enough £1.65
9. The Rugrats Movie £1.61m.
10. The Blair Witch Project £1.49m.
Near misses: Shakespeare in Love £1.48m.; The Mummy £1.454m.; The Matrix £1.45m.
Critic's Choice: Michael Dwyer
1. All About My Mother
2. Happiness
3. Fight Club
4. A Simple Plan
5. The Straight Story
6. Festen (The Celebration)
7. Shakespeare in Love
8. East is East
9. Late August, Early September
10. (tie) A Bug's Life and The Matrix
Near misses: Election, Affliction, Ride With the Devil, Gods and Monsters, Eyes Wide Shut, Last Night, After Life, Bulworth, The Opposite of Sex, Rushmore, Felicia's Journey, Go.
Director of the year: Pedro Almodovar for All About My Mother
New director of the year: Thomas Vinterberg for Festen
Irish director of the year: Damien O'Donnell for East is East
Best actor: Edward Norton for American History X and Fight Club
Best actress: Christina Ricci for The Opposite of Sex
Best supporting actress: (tie) Linda Bassett for East is East and Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love
Best supporting actor: Dylan Baker for Happiness
Most promising new actor: Haley Joel Osment for The Sixth Sense
Most promising new actress: Orla Brady for A Love Divided
Best Irish film: Syd Macartney for A Love Divided
Best Irish short film: Paul Mercier for Lipservice
Best original screenplay: Todd Solondz for Happiness
Best adapted screenplay: Scott B. Smith for A Simple Plan
Best original score: Hans Zimmer for The Thin Red Line
Best cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth for Fight Club
Best production design: Owen Paterson for The Matrix
Best costume design: Sandy Powell for Shakespeare in Love
Best casting: Ann Goulder for Happiness
Best film editing: Nigel Galt for Eyes Wide Shut
Best sound: Fight Club
Best special effects: The Matrix
Most under-rated film: Neil Jordan for In Dreams
Revelation of the year: The unusually high standard of American teen movies (Election, Cruel Intentions, Rushmore, American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You).
Phenomenon of the year: The Blair Witch Project
Worst film: Adrian Edmondson for Guest House Paradiso
Most over-rated film: Lars Von Trier for The Idiots
Nastiest film of the year: Joel Schumacher for 8MM
Most stupid film: Frank Coraci for The Waterboy
Most unnecessary remake: Gus Van Sant for Psycho
Most off-form auteur: (tie) Carlos Saura for Tango and Bernardo Bertolucci for Besieged
Worst actress: (tie) Madhur Jaffrey for Cotton Mary and Meg Ryan for You've Got Mail
Worst actor: (tie) Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson for Guest House Paradiso
Worst original screenplay: Kirk Jones for Waking Ned
Worst adapted screenplay: Mark Steven Johnson for Simon Birch
Disgrace of the year: The daft decisions made by the Cannes jury chaired by David Cronenberg
Most unconvincing portrayal of oneself: Gwyneth Paltrow in her Oscar acceptance speech
