2001 Cannes Film Festival
The 54th Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 25 May 2001. Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the Italian film The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti.
The festival opened with Moulin Rouge!, directed by Baz Luhrmann and closed with Les âmes fortes, directed by Raúl Ruiz. The Un Certain Regard section opened with 'R Xmas directed by Abel Ferrara and closed with The Words of My Father directed by Francesca Comencini.
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Juries
Main competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2001 Official Selection:- Liv Ullmann, Jury President
- Mimmo Calopresti
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Terry Gilliam
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Sandrine Kiberlain
- Philippe Labro
- Julia Ormond
- Moufida Tlatli
- Edward Yang
Un Certain Regard
- Ariane Ascaride President
- Florence Malraux
- François-Guillaume Lorrain
- Thomas Sotinel
- Virginie Apiou
Cinéfondation and short films
- Erick Zonca President
- Lynne Ramsay
- Rithy Panh
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Camera d'Or
- Maria de Medeiros President
- Loïc Barbier
- Stefano Della Casa
- Sophie Denize
- Franck Garbaz
- Mercedes Goiz
- Dominique Le Rigoleur
- Claire Simon
Official selection
In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:- Desert Moon by Shinji Aoyama
- Distance by Hirokazu Koreeda
- I'm Going Home by Manoel de Oliveira
- In Praise of Love by Jean-Luc Godard
- Kandahar by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- The Man Who Wasn't There by Joel Coen
- Millennium Mambo by Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Moulin Rouge! by Baz Luhrmann
- Mulholland Drive by David Lynch
- No Man's Land by Danis Tanović
- The Officers' Ward by François Dupeyron
- Pau and His Brother by Marc Recha
- The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke
- The Pledge by Sean Penn
- The Profession of Arms by Ermanno Olmi
- Replay by Catherine Corsini
- Roberto Succo by Cédric Kahn
- Shrek by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson
- Taurus by Alexander Sokurov
- The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti
- Va savoir by Jacques Rivette
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge by Shōhei Imamura
- What Time Is It There? by Tsai Ming-liang
Un Certain Regard
- The Anniversary Party by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming
- Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk
- Boyhood Loves by Yves Caumon
- Carrément à l'Ouest by Jacques Doillon
- The Chimp by Aktan Abdykalykov
- Clément by Emmanuelle Bercot
- A Dog's Day by Murali Nair
- Freedom by Lisandro Alonso
- Get a Life by João Canijo
- H Story by Nobuhiro Suwa
- Hijack Stories by Oliver Schmitz
- Just the Two of Us by Alexander Veledinsky
- Kairo by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Lan Yu by Stanley Kwan
- Late Marriage by Dover Kosashvili
- Lovely Rita by Jessica Hausner
- Man Walking on Snow by Masahiro Kobayashi
- No Such Thing by Hal Hartley
- 'R Xmas by Abel Ferrara
- The Road by Darezhan Omirbaev
- Storytelling by Todd Solondz
- Tears of the Black Tiger by Wisit Sasanatieng
- Tomorrow by Francesca Archibugi
- The Words of My Father by Francesca Comencini
Films out of competition
- ABC Africa by Abbas Kiarostami
- Apocalypse Now Redux by Francis Ford Coppola
- Avalon by Mamoru Oshii
- CQ by Roman Coppola
- Human Nature by Michel Gondry
- My Voyage to Italy by Martin Scorsese
- Les âmes fortes by Raúl Ruiz
- Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures by Claude Lanzmann
- The Center of the World by Wayne Wang
- Trouble Every Day by Claire Denis
Cinéfondation
- Antiromantika by Nariman Turebayev
- Bucarest - Vienne 8: 15 by Cătălin Mitulescu
- Crow Stone by Alicia Duffy
- Dai Bi by Chao Yang
- Fuldmane Vanvid by Anders Worm
- I Can Fly To You But You... by Young-Nam Kim
- J'espère, J'attends by Ewa Banaszkiewicz
- L'age Tendre by Eric Forestier
- La Cire, Ça Fait Mal by Maya Dreifuss
- Le Jour Où Toshi Est Né by Hikaru Yoshikawa
- Les Yeux Devorants by Syllas Tzoumerkas
- Martin Quatre Ans by Ben Hackworth
- Monsieur William, Les Traces D'une Vie Possible by Denis Gaubert
- Portrait by Sergei Luchishin
- Premiere Experience De Mort by Aida Begić
- Reparation by Jens Jonsson
- Svetlo by David Sukup
- Telecommande by Ethan Tobman
- Un Veau Pleurait, La Nuit by John Shank
- Zero Deficit by Ruth Mader
Short film competition
- Bean Cake by David Greenspan
- Chicken by Barry Dignam
- Bird in the Wire by Phillip Donnellon
- La Famille Sacree by Dong-Il Shin
- Daddy's Girl by Irvine Allan
- The Reel Truth by Tim Hamilton
- Just Little Birds by Fred Louf
- Natural Glasses by Jens Lien
- Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson
- Paulette by Louise-Marie Colon
- Pizza Passionata by Kari Juusonen
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 40th International Critics' Week :Feature film competition
- Under the Moonlight by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi
- Unloved by Kunitoshi Manda
- Bolivia by Adrián Caetano
- The Woman Who Drinks by Bernard Émond
- The Pornographer by Bertrand Bonello
- Almost Blue by Alex Infascelli
- Ephemeral Town by Giorgos Zafiris
- Le Dos au mur by Bruno Collet
- Eat by Bill Plympton
- Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job by Jörg Wagner and Stefan Prehn
- Field by Duane Hopkins
- L'Enfant de la haute mer by L. Gabrielli, P. Marteel, M. Renoux and M. Tourret
- Stranger and Native by Ali Mohammad Ghasem
- Noche de Bodas by Carlos Cuarón
- The Black Beach by Michel Piccoli
- Kes by Ken Loach
- Souffle by Muriel Coulin
- True Love Waits by Johanna Vuoksenmaa
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 2001 Directors' Fortnight :- Big Bad Love by Arliss Howard
- Bintou by Fanta Régina Nacro
- Boli shaonu by Lai Miu-suet
- That Old Dream That Moves by Alain Guiraudie
- Ceci est mon corps by Rodolphe Marconi
- Central by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
- Chelsea Walls by Ethan Hawke
- Cyber Palestine by Elia Suleiman
- Ecce homo by Mirjam Kubescha
- Fatma by Khaled Ghorbal
- Hautes Herbes by Mathieu Gérault
- HK by Xavier de Choudens
- Hush! by Ryosuke Hashiguchi
- I nostri anni by Daniele Gaglianone
- Je t'aime John Wayne by Toby MacDonald
- Jeunesse dorée by Zaïda Ghorab-Volta
- The Orphan of Anyang by Wang Chao
- La Trace de Moloktchon by Louis Jammes
- The Crossing by Sébastien Lifshitz
- Le Système Zsygmondy by Luc Moullet
- Les Pleureuses by Jorane Castro
- Made in the USA by Cindy Babski and Sólveig Anspach
- Stuff and Dough by Cristi Puiu
- Martha... Martha by Sandrine Veysset
- A Place on Earth by Artur Aristakisyan
- Ming dai ahui zhu by Hsiao Ya-chuan
- On s'embrasse? by Pierre Olivier
- Operai, contadini by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
- Pauline et Paulette by Lieven Debrauwer
- Queenie in Love by Amos Kollek
- Rain by Christine Jeffs
- Riyo by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
- Shon by Julien Sallé
- Slogans by Gjergj Xhuvani
- The Deep End by David Siegel and Scott McGehee
- The Heart of the World by Guy Maddin
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 2001 Official selection awards:- Palme d'Or: The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti
- Grand Prix: The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke
- Best Director:
- * David Lynch for Mulholland Dr.
- * Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There
- Best Screenplay: No Man's Land by Danis Tanović
- Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert for The Piano Teacher
- Best Actor: Benoît Magimel for The Piano Teacher
- Un Certain Regard Award: Amour d'enfance by Yves Caumon
- First Prize: Portrait by Sergei Luchishin
- Second Prize: Reparation by Jens Jonsson
- Third Prize: Dai Bi by Chao Yang & Crow Stone by Alicia Duffy
- Caméra d'Or: ' by Zacharias Kunuk
- Short Film Palme d'Or:
Independent awards
FIPRESCI Prizes- Martha... Martha by Sandrine Veysset
- La stanza del figlio by Nanni Moretti
- Le Pornographe by Bertrand Bonello
- Kôrei by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Technical Grand Prize: Tu Duu-Chih in What Time Is It There? and Millennium Mambo
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Safar-e Ghandehar by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Pauline and Paulette by Lieven Debrauwer
- French Film: Clément by Emmanuelle Bercot
- Foreign Film: Slogans by Gjergj Xhuvani
- Grand Prix Primagaz: Zir-e noor-e maah by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi
- Future talent Award : Unloved, by Kunitoshi Manda
- Prix Grand Rail d'Or : Unloved, by Kunitoshi Manda
- Prix Petit Rail d'Or : "Le dos au mur, de Bruno Collet - court metrage
- Canal+ Award: Eat by Bill Plympton
- Young Critics Award - Best Short: Le dos au mur by Bruno Collet
- Young Critics Award - Best Feature: Bolivia by Adrián Caetano
- Media Award 2001 of the European Union : Une liaison pornographique, de Frédéric Fonteyne
- SACD Award : On s'embrasse ? by Pierre Olivier
- Gras Savoye Award: HK by Xavier De Choudens
- Kodak Short Film Award: Bintou by Fanta Régina Nacro
- Kodak Short Film Award - Special Mention Le système Zsygmondy by Luc Moullet
- François Chalais Award: Made in the USA by Sólveig Anspach
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