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 Golden Palm
( )  ...Best Short Film
( )  Grand Prize of the Jury
( )  Jury Prize
( )  ...Best Short Film
( )  Best Actor
( )  Best Actress
( )  Best Director
( )  Best Screenplay
( )  Artistic Contribution
( )  Technical Grand Prize
( )  Golden Camera
( )  Cinefondation Award
( )  Un Certain Regard Award
( )  Mercedes-Benz Award
( )  Canal+ Award
( )  Kodak Short Film Award
( )  Gras Savoye Award
( )  FIPRESCI Prize
( )  ...Competition
( )  ...Parallel Sections
( )  Prize of the Ecumenical...
( )  Award of the Youth
( )  ...Foreign Film
( )  ...French Film
( )  François Chalais Award
 
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Cannes Film Festival: 1998

Golden Palm

Date:13 May - 24 May
Jury:Martin Scorsese (USA) (president); Alain Corneau (I) (France); M.C. Solaar (France) (artist); Chiara Mastroianni (France); Lena Olin (Sweden); Winona Ryder (USA); Zoé Valdés (Cuba); Sigourney Weaver (Australia); Michael Winterbottom (UK); Jean-Pierre Jeunet (France) (president) (short films); Emmanuelle Béart (France) (short films); Arnaud Desplechin (France) (short films); Ángela Molina (Spain) (short films); Jaco van Dormael (Belgium) (short films)
Notes:
  • The festival will have a short film jury from now on.

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  Other In-Competition Films:
 
  • Aprile (1998) - Nanni Moretti
  • Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (1998) - Patrice Chéreau
  • Claire Dolan (1998) - Lodge Kerrigan
  • Corazón iluminado (1996) - Hector Babenco
  • Dance Me to My Song (1998) - Rolf de Heer
  • Dong (1998) - Ming-liang Tsai
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - Terry Gilliam
  • Festen (1998) - Thomas Vinterberg
  • Hai shang hua (1998) - Hsiao-hsien Hou
  • Henry Fool (1997) - Hal Hartley
  • Idioterne (1998) - Lars von Trier
  • Illuminata (1998) - John Turturro
  • Khrustalyov, mashinu! (1998) - Aleksei German
  • L'école de la chair (1998) - Benoît Jacquot
  • La classe de neige (1998) - Claude Miller (I)
  • La vendedora de rosas (1998) - Víctor Gaviria
  • La vie rêvée des anges (1998) - Erick Zonca
  • La vita è bella (1997) - Roberto Benigni
  • My Name Is Joe (1998) - Ken Loach
  • The General (1998) - John Boorman
  • Velvet Goldmine (1998) - Todd Haynes

  • Best Short Film
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  • 9'8m/s² (1998) - Alfonso Amador; Nicolás Méndez
  • Balkanska ruleta (1998) - Zdravko Barisic
  • El vento (1998) - Vincent Bierrewaerts
  • Fetch (1998) - Lynn-Maree Danzey
  • Gasman (1997) - Lynne Ramsay
  • Hai zi wang (1998)
  • Happy Birthday to Me (1998) - Martin Mahon
  • Horseshoe (1998) - David Lodge (V)
  • Hsiao hai, tu ya, jia ting sheng huo chao (1998) - Jun-hong Lin
  • I Want You (1998/II) - Gregory Quail
  • Jonas (1998) - Liviusz Gyulai
  • Kiyida (1998) - Ebru Ceylan
  • Sin sostén (1998) - Antonio Urrutia
  • Skate (1998) - Eun-Ryung Cho

  • Grand Prize of the Jury

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    Jury Prize

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    Best Short Film
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    Golden Camera

    Jury:Anh Hung Tran (France) (president); Emmanuela Martini; Derek Malcolm (UK); Bernard Maltaverne; Marcel Martin (III) (France); Jacques Poitrenaud (France); Pierre Salvadori; Charles Van Damme (Belgium)

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    Cinefondation Award

    Jury:Jean-Pierre Jeunet (France) (president); Emmanuelle Béart (France); Arnaud Desplechin (France); Ángela Molina (Spain); Jaco van Dormael (Belgium)

      Placings:
     

    1. Jakub (1997) - Adam Guzinski
    2. The Sheep Thief (1997) - Asif Kapadia
    3. Mangwana (1997) - Manu Kurewa


    Un Certain Regard Award

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    FIPRESCI Prize

    Jury:Dan Fainaru (Israel) (head of jury); Philippe J. Maarek (France) (secretary of jury); François Chevassu (France); Mary Colbert (Australia); Adina Darian (Romania); Andrea Dittgen (Germany); Ziva Emersic Mali (Slovenia); Amir Labaki (Brazil); Myung Hee I (South Korea); Jonathan Romney (UK); Bruno Torri (Italy); Lucy Virgen (Mexico)

    Competition
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    • Dong (1998) - Ming-liang Tsai
      - For its daring combination of realism and apocalyptic vision, desperation and joy, austerity and glamour.

    Parallel Sections
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    • Happiness (1998) - Todd Solondz
      - For its bold tracking of controversial contemporary themes, richly-layered subtext, and remarkable fluidity of visual style.

    Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

    Jury:Joseph Marty (France) (head of jury); Laurent Gambarotto (France); Judith Waldner (Switzerland); Michael Graff (III) (Germany); Anka Berlogea (Romania); Robin Gurney (UK)

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    Award of the Youth

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    François Chalais Award

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