22nd Young Artist Awards
The 22nd 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 and television for the year 2000, and took place on April 1, 2001 at the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, California.
The announcer for the evening was William H. Bassett. The hosts for the evening were Josh Keaton, Ryan Merriman, Kimberly Cullum, Cody McMains, Kaitlin Cullum and Adam Nicholson.
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
Rob Brown – Finding Forrester – Columbia Pictures- Kevin Zegers – – Keystone Family Pictures
- Haley Joel Osment – Pay It Forward – Warner Bros
- Ryan Merriman – Just Looking – Sony Pictures Classics
- Patrick Fugit – Almost Famous – DreamWorks SKG
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actress
- Mara Wilson – Thomas and the Magic Railroad – Destination Films
- Jamie Renee Smith –
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Supporting Young Actor
- Rollo Weeks – The Little Vampire – New Line
- – The Legend of Bagger Vance – DreamWorks SKG
- Spencer Treat Clark – Gladiator – Universal
- Lucas Black – All the Pretty Horses – Miramax
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Supporting Young Actress
- Caitlin Wachs – My Dog Skip – Warner Bros
- Ashley Johnson – What Women Want – Paramount
- Clara Bryant – The Lost Lover – Studio Canal Plus
- Thora Birch – Dungeons & Dragons – New Line Cinema
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Young Actor Age Ten or Under
- Jake Thomas – The Cell – New Line Cinema
- – Snow Day – Paramount
- Jonathan Lipnicki – The Little Vampire – New Line Cinema
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Young Actress Age Ten or Under
- Taylor Momsen – Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Universal
- Hallie Kate Eisenberg – Beautiful – Destination Films
- Holliston Coleman – Bless the Child – Paramount
Best Performance in a TV Movie
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Drama): Leading Young Actor
★ – ' – Showtime- Frankie Muniz – Miracle in Lane 2 – Disney Channel
- – Possessed – Showtime
- Aaron Meeks – A Storm in Summer – Showtime
- Bobby Edner –
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Drama): Leading Young Actress
- Madeline Zima – – Showtime
- Alexa Vega – Run the Wild Fields – Showtime
- Kimberlee Peterson – Secret Cutting – USA Network
- Lindsey Haun – The Color of Friendship – Disney Channel
- Camilla Belle – Rip Girls – Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Drama): Supporting Young Actor
- Kyle Schmid – ' – Showtime
- – ' – Showtime
- Cameron Finley – – CBS
- – Baby – TNT
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Drama): Supporting Young Actress
- – ' – Showtime
- Courtney Peldon – ' – Showtime
- Julia McIlvaine – – CBS/Hallmark
- – Rip Girls – Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy): Leading Young Actor
- Bill Switzer – – Disney Channel
- Robert Ri'chard – Alley Cats Strike – Disney Channel
- Matthew O'Leary – Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire – Disney Channel
- Taylor Handley – Phantom of the Megaplex – Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy): Leading Young Actress
- Laura Vandervoort – Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire – Disney Channel
- Tia & Tamera Mowry – Seventeen Again – Showtime
- Vanessa Lengies – – Showtime
- Kimberly J. Brown – Quints – Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy): Supporting Young Actor
- Tahj Mowry – Seventeen Again – Showtime
- Max Morrow – Santa Who? – ABC/Wonderful World of Disney
- Jake Epstein – Quints – Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy): Supporting Young Actress
- Caitlin Wachs – Phantom of the Megaplex – Disney Channel
- – – Showtime
- Kaitlin Cullum – Growing Up Brady – NBC
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy or Drama): Young Actor Age 10 or Under
- Matt Weinberg – ' – CBS
- Sam Smith – Oliver Twist – PBS
- Jacob Smith – Phantom of the Megaplex – Disney Channel
- – ' – Showtime
- Spencer Breslin – The Ultimate Christmas Present – Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy or Drama): Young Actress Age 10 or Under
- – ' – Showtime
- Hallie Kate Eisenberg – The Miracle Worker – CBS/Wonderful World of Disney
- – Up, Up and Away – Disney Channel
- – ' – CBS
- Charlotte Arnold – – Lifetime
Best Performance in a TV Series
Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Leading Young Actor
★ Robert Clark – The Zack Files – Fox Family- Lee Thompson Young – The Famous Jett Jackson – Disney Channel
- Arjay Smith – The Journey of Allen Strange – Nickelodeon
- Jeremy Foley – Caitlin's Way – Nickelodeon
Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Leading Young Actress
- Lindsay Felton – Caitlin's Way – Nickelodeon
- Jessica Alba – Dark Angel – Fox
Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Supporting Young Actor
- Robert Iler – The Sopranos – HBO
- Dan Byrd – Any Day Now – Lifetime
- Ryan Sommers Baum – The Famous Jett Jackson – Disney Channel
- – Any Day Now – Lifetime
- Michael Angarano – Cover Me – USA Network Series
Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Supporting Young Actress
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler – The Sopranos – HBO
- – Any Day Now – Lifetime
- Mae Middleton – Any Day Now – Lifetime
- – Any Day Now – Lifetime
- – The Famous Jett Jackson – Disney Channel
Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Guest Starring Young Actor
- – Profiler – NBC
- Shawn Pyfrom – Touched By An Angel – CBS
- J.B. Gaynor – Family Law – CBS
- – Early Edition – Family Channel
- Trevor Blumas – Twice In a Lifetime – PAX
Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Guest Starring Young Actress
- Ashley Michelle Tisdale – Boston Public – FOX
- – 7th Heaven – WB
- Elisabeth Moss – The West Wing – NBC
- – Charmed – FOX
Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Leading Young Actor
- Robert Ri'chard – Cousin Skeeter – Nickelodeon
- Shia LaBeouf – Even Stevens – Disney
Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Leading Young Actress
- Mila Kunis – That '70s Show – Fox
- Amanda Bynes – The Amanda Show – Nickelodeon
Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Supporting Young Actor
- Martin Spanjers – Daddio – NBC
- Dee Jay Daniels – The Hughleys – UPN
- John Francis Daley – The Geena Davis Show – ABC
Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Supporting Young Actress
- Brianne Prather – The Jersey – Disney Channel
- Ashley Monique Clark – The Hughleys – UPN
Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Guest Starring Young Performer
- – The Amanda Show – Nickelodeon
- – The Jersey – Disney Channel
- Ty Hodges – Even Stevens – Disney Channel
- Ashley Edner – Malcolm in the Middle – FOX
Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama): Young Actor Age Ten or Under
- Erik Per Sullivan – Malcolm in the Middle – FOX
- Mitch Holleman – Daddio – NBC
Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama): Young Actress Age Ten or Under
- Makenzie Vega – The Geena Davis Show – ABC
- Madylin Sweeten – Everybody Loves Raymond – CBS
Best Performance in a Daytime TV Series
Best Performance in a Daytime TV Series: Young Actor
★ Jesse McCartney – All My Children – ABC- Justin Torkildsen – The Bold and the Beautiful – CBS
- Logan O'Brien – General Hospital – ABC
- Billy Kay – Guiding Light – CBS
- Penn Badgley – The Young and the Restless – NBC
Best Performance in a Daytime TV Series: Young Actress
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Passions – NBC
- Kirsten Storms – Days of Our Lives – NBC
- Jennifer Finnigan – The Bold and the Beautiful – CBS
- Ashley Lyn Cafagna – The Bold and the Beautiful – CBS
Best Performance in a Voice-Over
Best Performance in a Voice-Over (TV / Film / Video): Young Actor
★ Thomas Dekker – ' – Universal Pictures Home Video'- Spencer Klein –
Best Performance in a Voice-Over (TV / Film / Video): Young Actress
★ Emily Hart – ' – UPN'- Francesca Marie Smith –
Best Ensemble Performance
Best Ensemble in a TV Series (Drama or Comedy)
★ Once and Again – ABC- So Weird – Disney Channel
- Malcolm in the Middle – Fox
- The Jersey – Disney Channel
- The Brothers Garcia – Nickelodeon
Best Ensemble in a TV Movie
- The Other Me – Disney Channel
Best Ensemble in a Feature Film
- The Patriot – Columbia Pictures
Best Family Entertainment
Best Family TV Movie / Pilot / Mini-series: Cable
★ A Storm in Summer – Showtime- The Wishing Tree – Showtime
- Seventeen Again – Showtime
- Run the Wild Fields – Showtime
- Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire – Disney Channel
- Miracle in Lane 2 – Disney Channel
- The Color of Friendship – Disney Channel
Best Family TV Movie / Pilot / Mini-series: Network
- Yesterday's Children – CBS
- To Brave Alaska – ABC
- Second Honeymoon – CBS
- Santa Who? – ABC
- The Growing Pains Movie – ABC
- Cupid & Cate – CBS/Hallmark
- Baby – TNT
Best Educational TV Show or Series
- Nature – PBS
- Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces – TCM
- Founding Fathers – History Channel
- The Children of the Charbannes – HBO
- Awesome Pawsome – Animal Planet
Best Family TV Drama Series
- Touched by an Angel – CBS
- 7th Heaven – WB
- Mysterious Ways – NBC
- Judging Amy – CBS
- The Famous Jett Jackson – Disney Channel
Best Family TV Comedy Series
- The Jersey – Disney Channel
- The Hughleys – UPN
- Everybody Loves Raymond – CBS
- Even Stevens – Disney Channel
- Ed – NBC
Best Animated TV Series
- Sheep in the Big City – Cartoon Network
- Rolie Polie Olie – Disney Channel
- Blue's Clues – Nickelodeon
- Bear in the Big Blue House – Disney Channel
- Angela Anaconda – Family Channel
Best Family Feature Film – Drama
- Remember the Titans – Disney
- Finding Forrester – Columbia Pictures
- Family Tree – Warner Vision
- The Family Man – Universal
Best Family Feature Film – Comedy
- Snow Day – Paramount
- Return to Me – MGM
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas – Universal
- Disney's The Kid – Walt Disney
Best Family Feature Film – Animation
- – Paramount
- The Emperor's New Groove – Walt Disney
- Dinosaur – Buena Vista
- Blue's Big Musical Movie – Paramount
Special awards
Best Young Actor in an International Film
★ Jamie Bell – Billy Elliot – Produced by Working Title Films, distributed by Universal FocusBest Young Actress in an International Film
★ Zhang Ziyi – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Distributed by Sony Pictures ClassicsBest International Family Film
★ Billy Elliot – Produced by Working Title Films, distributed by Universal FocusBest Short Foreign Film
★ Sanzhyra – Russian Kinoglaz Company – Producer: Yevgeniya TirdatovaOutstanding Young International Performer
★ :de:Michael Junior|Michael Junior – PBS Special: Michael Junior – CD: DreamlandOutstanding Young Female Entertainer
★ Lauren Frost – Barbra Streisand concert – Madison Square GardenOutstanding Young Performer in Live Theater
★ Tiffany SolanoFormer Child Star Life Achievement Award
Jay Underwood – The Boy Who Could FlyFormer Child Star Life Achievement Award
Charlene Tilton – DallasOutstanding Young Performers in a National Commercial Featuring Youth
★ Daniel Smorgon – Bank of America★ Sam Schwarz – Bank of America – Produced by Bozell Advertising, New York
Outstanding Young Actress in a National Television Commercial
★ Steffani Brass – Disney Cruise LineOutstanding Achievement in an International Commercial Featuring Youth
★ Nes Bitton Diver/Actor – 'Diver' – Cheltenham & Gloucester, UK★ Nimrod Mashiach Diver/Actor – 'Diver' – Cheltenham & Gloucester, UK – Produced by Saatchi & Saatchi, London