1992 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

• Gérard Depardieu Jury President
• John Boorman
• Carlo Di Palma
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Joële Van Effenterre
• Lester James Peries
• Nana Djordjadze
• Pedro Almodóvar
• René Cleitman
• Serge Toubiana

  Camera d'Or

• André Delvaux President
• David Meeker
• Gérard Mordillat
• Gian Piero Brunetta
• Joao Lopes
• Olivier Bauer
• Pierre Favre
• Richard Hasselmann

  Official selection

In competition - Feature film

• A Stranger Among Us by Sidney Lumet
• Basic Instinct by Paul Verhoeven
• The Best Intentions by Bille August
• Crush by Alison Maclean
• Dark at Noon by Raúl Ruiz
• Dream of Light by Víctor Erice
• In the Country of Juliets by Mehdi Charef
• An Independent Life by Vitali Kanevsky
• The Journey by Fernando Solanas
• Howards End by James Ivory
• Hyènes by Djibril Diop Mambéty
• The Sentinel by Arnaud Desplechin
• The Long Day Closes by Terence Davies
• Luna Park by Pavel Lungin
• Léolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon
• Of Mice and Men by Gary Sinise
• The Player by Robert Altman
• The Return of Casanova by Édouard Niermans
• Simple Men by Hal Hartley
• The Stolen Children by Gianni Amelio
• by David Lynch

  Un Certain Regard

• American Me by Edward James Olmos
• Apple Trees by Helma Sanders-Brahms
• The Arrival of Averill by Michael Schottenberg
• Bad Lieutenant by Abel Ferrara
• Being at Home with Claude by Jean Beaudin
• The Blue Eyes of Yonta by Flora Gomes
• The Chekist by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
• Cousin Bobby by Jonathan Demme
• Crystal Nights by Tonia Marketaki
• Happy Days by Aleksei Balabanov
• Life, and Nothing More... by Abbas Kiarostami
• Memory of Water by Héctor Fáver
• Modern Crimes by Alejandro Agresti
• Mon Desir by Nicky Marshall
• The Ox by Sven Nykvist
• Prague by Ian Sellar
• Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann
• The Summer Guest by Can Togay
• Through an Open Window by Eric Mendelsohn
• Wedding Night – End of the Song by Pol Cruchten

  Films out of competition

• As in Heaven by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir
• Le Batteur Du Boléro by Patrice Leconte
• Beauty and the Beast by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
• The Boys from St. Petri by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
• Far and Away by Ron Howard
• House of Angels by Colin Nutley
• Map of the Human Heart by Vincent Ward
• The Oak by Lucian Pintilie
• Opening Night by John Cassavetes
• Othello by Orson Welles
• Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
• Patrick Dewaere by Marc Esposito
• Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino
• Sarafina! by Darrell James Roodt
• The Warrior's Heart by Leidulv Risan

  Short film competition

• Az út by Nikolai Ivanov Neikov
• Cheating, Inc. by William Lorton
• Daumier's Law by Geoff Dunbar
• L'échange by Vincent Pérez
• Encolure 42 by Willy Kempeneers
• Ghalb by Sa'ied Mojaveri
• Keine besonderen Vorkommnisse by Jürgen Schönhoff
• Le métro by Catherine Montondo
• No Problem by Craig Welch
• Omnibus by Sam Karmann
• A Passion Play by Tony Twigg
• La sensation by Manuel Poutte

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• Adorable Lies by Gerardo Chijona
• Anmonaito no sasayaki wo kiita by Isao Yamada
• Archipiélago by Pablo Perelman
• Die flucht by David Rühm
• The Grocer’s Wife by John Pozer
• Ingalo by Asdis Thorrodsen
• Man Bites Dog by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde

• Floating by Richard Heslop
• Home Stories by Matthias Müller
• Les Marionnettes by Marc Chevrie
• Le Petit chat est mort by Fejria Deliba
• Revolver by Chester Dent
• The Room by Jeff Balsmeyer
• Sprickan by Kristian Petri

  Directors' Fortnight

• Am Ende der Nacht by Christoph Schaub
• Le Amiche del cuore by Michele Placido
• Angel of Fire by Dana Rotberg
• Archipel by Pierre Granier-Deferre
• Baduk by Majid Majidi
• Benny’s Video by Michael Haneke
• Bob Roberts by Tim Robbins
• Les contes sauvages by Gérald Calderon, Jean-Charles Cuttoli
• Coupable d’innocence by Marcin Ziębiński
• Don Quijote by Orson Welles, Jesús Franco
• Dust of Angels by Hsu Hsiao-ming
• Eux by Levan Zakareishvili
• Hay Que Zurrar A Los Pobres by Santiago San Miguel
• Liebe auf den ersten blick by Rudolf Thome
• Love by Valery Todorovsky
• Mac by John Turturro
• My New Gun by Stacy Cochran
• Otrazheniye v zerkale by Svetlana Proskurina
• Le Petit Prince a dit by Christine Pascal
• Quelque part vers Conakry by Françoise Ebrard
• Sans un cri by Jeanne Labrune
• Vagabond by Ann Le Monnier
• Warszawa. Année 5703 by Janusz Kijowski
• L’autre Célia by Irène Jouannet
• F.X. Messerschmidt sculpteur by Marino Vagliano
• Juliette by Didier Bivel
• Le Trou de la corneille by François Hanss
• Léa by Christophe Debuisne
• Pilotes by Olivier Zagar
• Versailles Rive Gauche by Bruno Podalydès
• Voleur d’images by Bruno Victor-Pujebet

  Awards

Official awards

• Palme d'Or: The Best Intentions by Bille August
• Grand Prize of the Jury: The Stolen Children by Gianni Amelio
• Best Director: Robert Altman for The Player
• Best Actress: Pernilla August for The Best Intentions
• Best Actor: Tim Robbins for The Player
• Jury Prize:
• *Dream of Light by Víctor Erice
• *An Independent Life by Vitali Kanevsky
• 45th Anniversary Prize: Howards End by James Ivory

• Caméra d'Or: Mac by John Turturro

• Short Film Palme d'Or: Omnibus by Sam Karmann

  Independent awards

• Dream of Light by Víctor Erice

• Technical Grand Prize: Fernando Solanas in The Journey

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: The Stolen Children by Gianni Amelio
• Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention:
• *In the Country of Juliets by Mehdi Charef
• *The Journey by Fernando Solanas

• Foreign Film: Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann
• French Film: Sans un cri by Jeanne Labrune
• Special Award of the Youth: Man Bites Dog by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde

• SACD Award
• *Best Short: The Room by Jeff Balsmeyer
• *Best Feature: Man Bites Dog by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
• Canal+ Award: Floating by Richard Heslop

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