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.
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.
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.
Categories ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category.
Best Performance in a Feature Film 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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Ensemble Performance Best Performance in a Feature Film or TV Movie: Young Ensemble ★ Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season - Warner BrothersZachary Browne, Rachel David, Marissa Leigh, Joe Pichler and Caitlin WachsAnnie - 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 ChannelCourtnee Draper, Michael Galeota, Theo Greenly and Jermaine WilliamsFreaks and Geeks - NBC John Francis Daley, James Franco, Sarah Hagan, 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 Erik von Detten; Patrick Levis; Cara DeLizia; Eric Lively
Best Family Entertainment Best Family TV Movie or Pilot: Network ★ Anya's Bell - CBSAnnie - 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 - ShowtimeThe 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