2001 Cannes Film Festival
The 54th International Film Festival of Cannes 2001 took place until May 20, 2001 by May 9.
Competition
In the competition of the festival in 2001 following films were shown in:
International Jury
This year, Liv Ullmann was jury president. A year earlier, she had a directing from a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman in the competition. She stood in front of a jury with the following members: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Julia Ormond, Moufida Tlatli, Mimmo Calopresti, Terry Gilliam, Mathieu Kassovitz, Philippe Labro and Edward Yang.
Award winners
- Palme d'Or: The Son's Room
- Grand Jury Prize: The Piano Teacher
- Best Actor: Benoît Magimel in The Piano Teacher
- Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert in The Piano Teacher
- Best Director: David Lynch for Mulholland Drive and Joel Coen for The Man Who Was not There
- Best Screenplay: Danis Tanović for No Man's Land
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- FIPRESCI Award: The Son's Room
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Kandahar
Un Certain Regard
In the Un Certain Regard and produced films that were presented this year:
Relationships and other catastrophes by Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hijack Stories by Oliver Schmitz, I 'm not asking for a love story asked by Jacques Doillon, Lan Yu by Stanley Kwan, Lovely Rita by Jessica Hausner, No Such Thing Hal Hartley, Le parole di mio padre by Francesca Comencini, Pattiyude Divasam by Murali Nair, R Xmas by Abel Ferrara, storytelling by Todd Solondz. The Un Certain Regard Prize was awarded this year to the French film Amour d' enfance by Yves Caumon.