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23 Feb, 2000

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indexSting wins the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Album for Brand New Day.

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indexSantana wins the Grammy for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album for Supernatural, and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Maria Maria,  and Best Pop Instrumental Performance for El Farol.

To live is to dream. To die is to awaken. Please don’t wake me up.

21 Mar, 1999

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Producers David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1998 for Shakespeare in Love. Harrison Ford presents the award. Weinstein:

I don’t know, we made this movie — this is a movie about life and art. And art and life combining is called magic. For me, this was a great experience, a passion, for five years.

Shakespeare in Love Wins Best Picture: 1999 Oscars

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Benigni wins the Academy award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of Guido, a Jewish father during World War II who protects his son from the harsh reality of a Nazi labor camp, in Life Is Beautiful (“La vita è bella”). Helen Hunt presents the award.

Thank you to all in Italy, for the Italian cinema, grazie al Italia who made me. I am really, I owe to them all my, if I did something good. So grazie al Italia e grazie al America, land of the lot of things here. Thank you very much. And I hope, really I don’t deserve this, but I hope to win some other Oscars! Thank you!

Roberto Benigni Wins Best Actor | 71st Oscars (1999)

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imagesDixie Chicks wins the Grammy for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for There’s Your Trouble, and Best Country Album for Wide Open Spaces.

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indexGill wins the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for If You Ever Have Forever In Mind, and Best Country Instrumental Performance for A Soldier’s Joy. 

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indexTwain wins the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song for You’re Still The One. 

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Beastie Boys wins the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance for Hello Nasty, and Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for Intergalactic.