The 52nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1999 in film, 1999. Canadian filmmaker, actor and author David Cronenberg was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the cinema of France, French–cinema of Belgium, Belgian film ''Rosetta (film), Rosetta'' by Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The festival opened with ''The Barber of Siberia'', directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and closed with ''An Ideal Husband (1999 film), An Ideal Husband'', directed by Oliver Parker. Kristin Scott Thomas was the mistress of ceremonies.

Juries

Main competition

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 1999 Official Selection: * David Cronenberg (Canada) Jury President * André Téchiné (France) * Barbara Hendricks (Sweden) * Dominique Blanc (France) * Doris Dörrie (Germany) * George Miller (producer), George Miller (Australia) * Holly Hunter (United States) * Jeff Goldblum (United States) * Maurizio Nichetti (Italy) * Yasmina Reza (France)

Un Certain Regard

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1999 Un Certain Regard: *Lambert Wilson (actor) President * Irène Bignardi (critic) * Annie Coppermann (critic) * Thierry Gandillot (critic) * Jonathan Romney (critic) *Laurent Tirard (director)

Cinéfondation and short films

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the Cinéfondation and short films competition: *Thomas Vinterberg (director) President *Cédric Klapisch (director) *Virginie Ledoyen (actress) *Walter Salles (director) *Greta Scacchi (actress)

Camera d'Or

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1999 Camera d'Or: *Michel Piccoli (actor) President *Peter Von Bagh (film historian, director) * Jean-Pierre Beauviala * Cherifa Chabane (critic) *Caroline Champetier (cinematographer) * Paola Malanga (critic) * José Maria Riba (critic) *Marie Vermillard (director)

Official selection

In competition – Feature film

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: * ''8½ Women'' by Peter Greenaway * ''All About My Mother'' (''Todo sobre mi madre'') by Pedro Almodóvar * ''Cradle Will Rock'' by Tim Robbins * ''The Emperor and the Assassin'' (''Jing Ke ci Qin Wang'') by Chen Kaige * ''Felicia's Journey (film), Felicia's Journey'' by Atom Egoyan * ''Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai'' by Jim Jarmusch * ''Humanité'' (''L'humanité'') by Bruno Dumont * ''Kadosh'' by Amos Gitai * ''Kikujiro'' (''Kikujirô no natsu'') by Takeshi Kitano * ''The Letter (1999 film), The Letter'' (''La lettre'') by Manoel de Oliveira * ''Limbo (1999 film), Limbo'' by John Sayles * ''Love Will Tear Us Apart (1999 film), Love Will Tear Us Apart'' (''Tin seung yan gaan'') by Yu Lik-wai, Nelson Yu Lik-wai * ''Moloch (1999 film), Moloch'' (''Molokh'') by Alexander Sokurov * ''The Nanny (1999 film), The Nanny'' (''La balia'') by Marco Bellocchio * ''No One Writes to the Colonel (film), No One Writes to the Colonel'' (''El coronel no tiene quien le escriba'') by Arturo Ripstein * ''Our Happy Lives'' (''Nos vies heureuses'') by Jacques Maillot * ''Pola X'' by Leos Carax * ''Rosetta (film), Rosetta'' by Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne * ''The Straight Story'' by David Lynch * ''Tales of Kish'' (''Ghessé hayé kish'') by Abolfazl Jalili, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Nasser Taghvai * ''Time Regained (film), Time Regained'' (''Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust'') by Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz * ''Wonderland (1999 film), Wonderland'' by Michael Winterbottom

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard: * ''As Bodas de Deus'' by João César Monteiro * ''Away with Words'' by Christopher Doyle * ''Beautiful People (film), Beautiful People'' by Jasmin Dizdar * ''Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland'' (''Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz'') by Daniel Schmid * ''Genesis (1999 film), Genesis'' (''La genèse'') by Cheick Oumar Sissoko * ''Harem Suare'' by Ferzan Özpetek * ''If I Give You my Humbleness, Don't Take Away my Pride'' by Karin Westerlund * ''Judy Berlin'' by Eric Mendelsohn * ''Kaizokuban Bootleg Film'' by Masahiro Kobayashi (director), Masahiro Kobayashi * ''March of Happiness'' (''Tian ma cha fang'') by Lin Cheng-sheng * ''Nadia and the Hippos'' (''Nadia et les hippopotames'') by Dominique Cabrera * ''New Dawn (film), New Dawn'' (''Peau neuve'') by Émilie Deleuze * ''Olympic Garage'' (''Garage Olimpo'') by Marco Bechis * ''The Other (1999 film), The Other'' (''L'autre'') by Youssef Chahine * ''The Passengers (1999 film), The Passengers'' (''Les passagers'') by Jean-Claude Guiguet * ''The Personals (1998 Taiwanese film), The Personals'' (''Zheng hun qi shi'') by Chen Kuo-fu * ''Ratcatcher (film), Ratcatcher'' by Lynne Ramsay * ''The Shade (1998 film), The Shade'' by Raphael Nadjari * ''Sicilia!'' by Straub-Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet * ''So Close to Paradise'' by Wang Xiaoshuai * ''Throne of Death'' (''Marana Simhasanam'') by Murali Nair * ''Vanaprastham'' by Shaji N. Karun * ''The Winslow Boy (1999 film), The Winslow Boy'' by David Mamet

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: * ''The Barber of Siberia'' by Nikita Mikhalkov * ''Dogma (film), Dogma'' by Kevin Smith * ''EDtv'' by Ron Howard * ''Entrapment (film), Entrapment'' by Jon Amiel (Special screening) * ''Farewell, Home Sweet Home'' (''Adieu, plancher des vaches!'') by Otar Iosseliani * ''An Ideal Husband (1999 film), An Ideal Husband'' by Oliver Parker * ''The Limey'' by Steven Soderbergh * ''My Best Fiend'' (''Mein liebster Feind'') by Werner Herzog

Cinéfondation

The following films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation: * ''Baballoon'' (''Babalon'') by Michal Zabka * ''Cambi e Scambi'' by Donata Pizzato * ''The Clock'' by Noah Laracy * ''Dimanche'' by Fabrice Aragno * ''The Execution'' by Lee In-Kyun * ''Fish 073'' (''Ryba 073'') by Vaclav Svankmajer * ''Germania'' by Kris Krikellis * ''Im Hukim'' (''With Rules'') by Dover Kosashvili * ''Inter-View'' by Jessica Hausner * ''Ked Nie, Tak Nie'' by Vladimir Kral * ''Layover'' by Shen Ko-Shang * ''Der Linkshander'' by Iouri Kouzine * ''Little Big Dog'' (''En God Dag At Go'') by Bo Hagen Clausen * ''Milk'' by Mairi Cameron * ''La Puce'' by Emmanuelle Bercot * ''Runt'' by Jesse Lawrence * ''Second Hand (1999 film), Second Hand'' by Emily Young (film director), Emily Young * ''Waxandwane'' by Axel Koenzen * ''Wojtek'' by David Turner * ''Yumeji Ningyo'' (''Doll of Dreams'') by Yamazaki Tatsuji

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: * ''Billy's Balloon'' by Don Hertzfeldt * ''The Cookie Thief'' by Hugo Currie, Toby Leslie * ''Devil Doll'' by Jarl Olsen * ''An Eternity'' by Daehyun Kim * ''Food for Thought'' by John Paton, Matthew Ross * ''Husk'' by Jerry Handler * ''Le Pique-Nique'' by Il-Gon Song * ''Rien Dire'' by Vincent Pérez (France) * ''Roulette'' by Roberto Santiago * ''Simultaneity'' by Seong Sook Kim * ''Stop (1999 film), Stop'' by Rodolphe Marconi * ''When the Day Breaks'' by Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 38th International Critics' Week (38e Semaine de la Critique): Feature film competition * ''7/25 Nana-ni-go'' by Wataru Hayakawa (Japan) * ''Flores de otro mundo'' by Icíar Bollaín (Spain) * ''Hold Back the Night (1999 film), Hold Back the Night'' by Phil Davis (actor), Phil Davis (United Kingdom) * ''On Board (film), On Board'' (''Gemide'') by Serdar Akar (Turkey) * ''Siam Sunset'' by John Polson (Australia) * ''Strange Fits of Passion'' by Elise McCredie (Australia) * ''The White Suit'' (''Belo odelo'') by Lazar Ristovski (FR Yugoslavia) Short film competition * ''The Circle (2000 film), The Circle'' (''Dayereh'') by Mohammad Shirvani (Iran) * ''Dérapages'' by Pascal Adant (Belgium) * ''Fuzzy Logic'' by Tom Krueger (United States) * ''The Good Son'' by Sean McGuire (United Kingdom) * ''La Leçon du jour'' by Irène Sohm (France) * ''More (1998 film), More'' by Mark Osborne (filmmaker), Mark Osborne (United States) * ''Shoes Off!'' by Mark Sawers (Canada)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1999 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): * ''A mort la mort !'' by Romain Goupil * ''Agnes Browne'' by Anjelica Huston * ''The Blair Witch Project'' by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez (director), Eduardo Sánchez * ''Le Bleu des villes'' by Stéphane Brizé * ''Charisma (film), Charisma'' by Kiyoshi Kurosawa * ''Un château en Espagne'' by Delphine Gleize * ''Les Convoyeurs attendent'' by Benoît Mariage * ''The Cup (1999 film), The Cup'' (''Phörpa'') by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, Khyentse Norbu * ''Darkness and Light (film), Darkness and Light'' (''Hei An Zhi Guang'') by Chang Tso-Chi * ''East Is East (1999 film), East Is East'' by Damien O'Donnell * ''El entusiasmo'' by Ricardo Larraín * ''Fever (1999 film), Fever'' by Alex Winter * ''The Five Senses (film), The Five Senses'' by Jeremy Podeswa * ''Haut les cœurs!'' by Sólveig Anspach * ''Kiemas'' by Valdas Navasaitis * ''The Last September#Film version, The Last September'' by Deborah Warner * ''M/Other'' by Nobuhiro Suwa * ''Qui plume la lune ?'' by Christine Carrière * ''Scenery (film), Scenery'' by He Jianjun, Zhao Jisong * ''Sud (1999 film), Sud'' by Chantal Akerman * ''Summer of Sam'' by Spike Lee * ''The Virgin Suicides (film), The Virgin Suicides'' by Sofia Coppola * ''The War Zone'' by Tim Roth * ''Voyages (film), Voyages'' by Emmanuel Finkiel * ''Wege in die Nacht'' by Andreas Kleinert :Short films * ''Le Franc'' by Djibril Diop Mambety (45 min.) * ''Marée haute'' by Caroline Champetier (17 min.) * ''Un petit air de fête'' by Eric Guirado (35 min.) * ''La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil'' (or ''The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun'') by Djibril Diop Mambety (45 min.) * ''Le Premier pas'' by Florence Vignon (23 min.) * ''La Tentation de l'innocence'' by Fabienne Godet (43 min.) * ''O Trouble'' by Sylvia Calle (10 min.)

Awards

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1999 Official selection awards: In Competition *Palme d'Or: ''Rosetta (film), Rosetta'' by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne *Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival), Grand Prize of the Jury: ''Humanité, L'humanité'' by Bruno Dumont *Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Director: Pedro Almodóvar for ''All About My Mother, Todo sobre mi madre'' *Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Screenplay: ''Moloch (1999 film), Molokh'' by Yuri Arabov *Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Actress: **Séverine Caneele for ''Humanité, L'humanité'' **Émilie Dequenne for ''Rosetta (film), Rosetta'' *Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Actor: Emmanuel Schotté for ''Humanité, L'humanité'' *Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival), Jury Prize: ''The Letter (1999 film), La lettre'' by Manoel de Oliveira Un Certain Regard *Un Certain Regard Award: ''Beautiful People (film), Beautiful People'' by Jasmin Dizdar Cinéfondation * First Prize: ''Second Hand (1999 film), Second Hand'' by Emily Young (film director), Emily Young * Second Prize: ''Im Hukim'' by Dover Koshashvili & ''La puce'' by Emmanuelle Bercot * Third Prize: ''Little Big Dog'' (''En God Dag At Go'') by Bo Hagen Clausen * Special Mention: ''Inter-View'' by Jessica Hausner Golden Camera *Caméra d'Or: ''Throne of Death, Marana Simhasanam'' by Murali Nair Short Films *Short Film Palme d'Or: ''When the Day Breaks'' by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis * Jury Prize: ''Stop'' by Rodolphe Marconi & ''Le Pique-Nique'' by Il-Gon Song

Independent awards

FIPRESCI, FIPRESCI Prizes * ''New Dawn (film), Peau neuve'' by Émilie Deleuze (In competition) * ''M/Other'' by Nobuhiro Suwa (Directors' Fortnight) Commission Supérieure Technique * Vulcan Award, Technical Grand Prize: Juhua Tu (production design) in ''The Emperor and the Assassin'' (''Jing Ke ci Qin Wang'') Ecumenical Jury * Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: ''All About My Mother, Todo sobre mi madre'' by Pedro Almodóvar * Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention: ''Rosetta (film), Rosetta'' by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Award of the Youth *Foreign Film: ''The Blair Witch Project'' by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez (director), Eduardo Sánchez *French Film: ''Voyages (film), Voyages'' by Emmanuel Finkiel Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week *Mercedes-Benz Award: ''Flores de otro mundo'' (''Flowers from Another World'') by Icíar Bollaín *Canal+ Award: ''Shoes Off!'' by Mark Sawers *Grand Golden Rail: ''Siam Sunset'' by John Polson *Little Golden Rail: ''Derapages'' by Pascal Adant Awards in the frame of Directors' Fortnight *Kodak Short Film Award: ''Un petit air de fête'' by Eric Guirado *Kodak Short Film Award – Special Mention ''Ô trouble'' by Sylvia Calle *C.I.C.A.E. Award: ''Qui plume la lune?'' (''Who Plucked the Feathers Off the Moon?'') by Christine Carrière *Gras Savoye Award: ''Un château en Espagne'' (''A Castle in Spain'') by Delphine Gleize Association Prix François Chalais *François Chalais Prize, François Chalais Award: ''The Other (1999 film), The Other'' (''L'autre'') by Youssef Chahine File:André Téchiné 2008.jpg, André Téchiné File:Barbara Hendricks Cannes.jpg, Barbara Hendricks File:Dominique Blanc.jpg, Dominique Blanc File:Frankfurter Buchmesse 2011 Doris Dörrie und Dorothea Westphal.jpg, Doris Dörrie File:George Miller - Happy Feet 2.jpg, George Miller (producer), George Miller File:Holly Hunter Met Opera 2010 Shankbone.jpg, Holly Hunter File:JeffGoldblum07TIFF.jpg, Jeff Goldblum File:Nichetti.jpg, Maurizio Nichetti

References

Media

INA: Opening of the 1999 Festival
(commentary in French)

(commentary in French)

External links

(web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 1999

Cannes Film Festival Awards 1999
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