TORONTO– David Fincher’s Fight Club lived up to the expectations garnered by its 1999-leading 14 nominations, when its Best Film victory was announced at Cafe Sopra Sotto in downtown Toronto. The Edward Norton / Brad Pitt movie beat out The Blair Witch Project, F***ing Amal, The Iron Giant, and Magnolia. All the nominees were the first Best Film appearance for their respective directors; Fight Club also won Best Director, Best Monstercraft, and Best Title Scream Moment(s). Coolest Film was awarded to Trey Parker’s South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut; also nominated were Being John Malkovich, The Limey, The Matrix, and Run Lola Run. South Park became the first animated film in the Lena’s 20-year history to win either top prize, and also won for Best Trailer and Best Song, "What Would Brian Boitano Do?". The Worst Film was decreed to be Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace, edging out Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me, Chill Factor, The Haunting, and Wild Wild West. George Lucas took home Worst Director, the disturbingly quasi-Asiatic aliens won Worst Villain, and Jar Jar Binks received the Stevey Seagull Award For The Greatest Monstrosity Of The Year. Nicolas Cage achieved a remarkable feat when his performance in 8mm was presented with both Most Underplayed Role and Most Overplayed Role; the first time such a thing had happened. As more than one voter said, "Those who endured the movie should understand."

Other major winners included The Talented Mr. Ripley, for which Matt Damon was awarded both Best Actor and Best Villain, the first to do so since Anthony Hopkins for 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs. Ripley’s Cate Blanchett won Coolest Supporting Actress, and director Anthony Minghella won Best Adapted Screenplay. The Matrix also did well, winning Coolest Director (The Wachowski bros.), Coolest Actor (Keanu Reeves), Coolest Villain (Hugo Weaving), and the Best Player With No More Than Two Scenes award (Gloria Foster, who played "The Oracle"). Sarah Polley earned Best Actress for Guinevere, the second Canadian in a row to win the award, while Coolest Actress went to Jeanene Garofalo for Mystery Men. Garofalo had won Coolest Supporting Actress last year for her role in Clay Pigeons.

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense won Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Toni Collette), P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia captured Best Supporting Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Best Compiled Soundtrack, and Kevin Smith’s Dogma won Coolest Supporting Actor (Alan Rickman) and Best Buddy Act (Ben Affleck & Matt Damon). The coveted Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Award went to Being John Malkovich, with Malkovich himself winning the Companiero Award For People Playing Themselves, in a close race with William Shatner for Free Enterprise. The Blair Witch Project won Best Hats and the Death Machine Award for Excellence in No-Budget Filmmaking, and The Iron Giant won Best History, Most Underrated Film, and the Eric Stoltz’s Head Award for Widescreen Composition. Best Original Music went to Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn for Ravenous, the Jon Bunnyman Award for Artistic Excellence Through Judicious and Intentional Use of Bad Writing went to Galaxy Quest, and the Jackie Chan Award for Bestest Goodness of the Year went to Rod Hilton and his Editing Room website.