21st Young Artist Awards
The 21st Young Artist Awards ceremony, 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- 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
- 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
★ 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
- 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
- Zachary David Cope -
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 - 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- - Au Pair - Fox Family Channel
- - ' - USA Cable
- Jake LeDoux - Summer's End - Showtime
- Trevor Morgan - Genius - Disney Channel
- Jonathan Tucker - ' - Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Leading Young Actress
- Kirsten Dunst - The Devil's Arithmetic - Showtime
- Alicia Morton - Annie - ABC
- Tegan Moss -
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Supporting Young Actor
- Bill Switzer - ' - Showtime
- - ' - CBS
- Brendan Fletcher - - Showtime
- Miko Hughes - Lethal Vows - CBS
- Will Rothhaar - Black and Blue - CBS
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Supporting Young Actress
- - ' - CBS
- Camilla Belle - Replacing Dad - CBS
- - ' - Showtime
- Alison Pill - - HBO
- Emmy Rossum - Genius - Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Young Actor Age Ten or Under
- Seth Adkins - ' - CBS
- Jake Sakson - Don't Look Under the Bed - Disney Channel
- Jacob Smith - Evolution's Child - USA
- Michal Suchánek - ' - CBS
- - Replacing Dad - CBS
Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot: Young Actress Age Ten or Under
- - Nick of Time - ABC
- Emily Osment -
Best Performance in a Drama Series
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Leading Young Actor
★ Austin O'Brien - Promised Land - CBS- - 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd - Nickelodeon
- Arjay Smith - The Journey of Allen Strange - Nickelodeon
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Leading Young Actress
- Majandra Delfino - Roswell - Warner Brothers
- Sarah Schaub - Promised Land - CBS
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Supporting Young Actor
- Cameron Finley - Baywatch - Syndicated
- Robert Iler - The Sopranos - HBO
- Courtland Mead - NYPD Blue - ABC
- - Hope Island - PAX
- Shane Sweet - The Journey of Allen Strange - Nickelodeon
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Supporting Young Actress
- 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
- - The Sopranos - HBO
- - The X-Files - FOX
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Young Actress Age Ten and Under
- Chea Courtney - Melrose Place - FOX
- Brittany Tiplady - Millennium - FOX
- Karle Warren - Judging Amy - CBS
Best Performance in a Drama Series: Guest Starring Young Actor
- Carlo Alban - Touched by an Angel - CBS
- Bobby Edner - Touched by an Angel - CBS
- - 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
- 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
- Amanda Bynes - The Amanda Show - Nickelodeon
- Mila Kunis - That '70s Show - FOX
Best Performance in a Comedy Series: Supporting Young Actor
- 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
- Ashley Lyn Cafagna - - NBC
- - 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
- Ashley Monique Clark - The Hughleys - ABC
- - Movie Stars - Warner Brothers
- & - Home Improvement - ABC
Best Performance in a Comedy Series: Guest Starring Young Performer
- - Sports Night - ABC
- - Sabrina, the Teenage Witch - ABC
- - 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
- - The Young and the Restless CBS
Best Performance in a Soap Opera: Young Actress
- 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
- Kristin Fairlie - Little Bear - Nickelodeon
- Olivia Hack - Hey Arnold! - Nickelodeon
- Emily Hart - - UPN
- Ashley Johnson - Recess - ABC
Best Ensemble Performance
Best Performance in a Feature Film or TV Movie: Young Ensemble
★ ' - Warner Brothers- Annie - ABC
Best Performance in a TV Series: Young Ensemble
- Freaks and Geeks - NBC
- Get Real - FOX
- Little Men - PAX
- Safe Harbor - WB
- So Weird - Disney Channel
Best Family Entertainment
Best Family TV Movie or Pilot: Network
★ Anya's Bell - CBS- Annie - ABC
- Behind the Mask - CBS
- - 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
- 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
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
- 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
- The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland - Columbia Pictures
- The Iron Giant - Warner Brothers
- - Warner Brothers
- Tarzan - Disney
Best Family Feature Film for 1999: Comedy
- 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
- Anna and the King - 20th Century Fox
- For Love of the Game - Universal
- October Sky - Universal
- - 20th Century Fox
- The Straight Story - Disney
Best International Film
- The Butterfly's Tongue - Spain
- The Color of Paradise - Iran
- Saranggola - Philippines
- Scratches in the Table - Holland
Special awards
Outstanding Young Performer in Theater
★ Roberto Cisneros - The Smuin Ballet, San FranciscoOutstanding Young Performers in a Television Commercial
★ Hallie Kate Eisenberg - Pepsi★ Connor Matheus - K-Mart