1999 Cannes Film Festival
The 52nd International Film Festival of Cannes took place in 1999 to 23 May 1999 of May 12.
Competition
In the competition of the festival in 1999 following films were shown in:
* = Golden Palm
International Jury
This year, the director David Cronenberg was jury president. He stood before a jury with the following members: Dominique Blanc, Doris Dorrie, Barbara Hendricks, Holly Hunter, Yasmina Reza, Jeff Goldblum, George Miller, and André Téchiné Maurizio Nichetti.
Award winners
- Palme d'Or: Rosetta
- Grand Jury Prize: humanity
- Jury Award: The letter
- Best Actor: Emmanuel Schotte in humanity
- Best Actress: Séverine Caneele in humanity and Émilie Dequenne in Rosetta
- Best Director: Pedro Almodóvar for All About My Mother
- Best Screenplay: Alexander Sokurov for Moloch
- Technology Price: Juhua Tu for the production design of The Emperor and the Assassin
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- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: All About My Mother
Un Certain Regard
In the Un Certain Regard this year were presented among others the following films:
Away With Words by Christopher Doyle, Berezina, or The Last Days of Switzerland by Daniel Schmid, up to the next station by Jean -Claude Guiguet, Judy Berlin by Eric Mendelsohn, The Winslow Boy by David Mamet. The Bosnian film Beautiful People by Jasmin Dizdar was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize.