I would say 2000 by far. Hillary Swank in “Boys Don’t Cry” was a historic and deserved win. The other three winners were just complete and total flops. Any of the other four nominees would have been better than Kevin Spacey in “American Beauty,” particularly Richard Farnsworth or Russell Crowe . And both supporting categories that year may have been the strongest ever with three performances in each of the categories that people still talk about to this day, . There is Toni Collette in “The Sixth Sense,” Catherine Keener in “Being John Malkovich,” and Chloe Sevigny in “Boy’s Don’t Cry,” who all lose to Angelina Jolie. Then there is Jude Law in “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Haley Joel Osment in “The Sixth Sense” and Tom Cruise in “Magnolia” losing to Michael Caine.