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Cannes 2001 Awards

CANNES (djc) – Italian director Nanni Moretti’s “The Son’s Room” won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last Sunday. Moretti’s film is a stirring account of a happy family shattered by the death of a teen-age son.

The film features a character named Giovanni living a near-perfect life with his wife and two children. Then his teen-age son is killed in a freak diving accident.

After accepting the Palme d’Or, Moretti emotionally thanked everyone involved with the film and threw his arms in the air in elation.

Moretti, who plays the lead, intelligently examines how people cope with the worst that can happen to a family.

“I am very happy when people tell me this is both a hard and a sweet film,” Moretti said.

And the Winners are…

PALME D’OR

“The Son’s Room” from Nanni Moretti (Italy)

WINNERS LONG FEATURES

Grand Prix of the Jury

“The Piano Player” from Michael Haneke (Austria)

Best Actress

Isabelle Huppert for “The Piano Player” (France)

Best Actor

Benoît Magimel for “The Piano Player”

Best Director : ex aequo

Joel Coen for “The Man Who Wasn’t There” (USA)

David Lynch for “Mulholland Drive” (USA)

Best Screen Play

“No Man’s Land” from Danis Tanovic (Bosnia)

Technical Prize

Tuu Duu-Chih for “Millenium Mambo” and “Ni Nei Pien Chi Tien” (Taiwan)

Caméra d’or Winner

“Atanarjuat, “The Fast Runner” from Zacharias Kunuk, 1st Inuit film ever

WINNERS SHORT FILMS

PALME D’OR

“Been Cake” by David Greenspan (Japan)

Jury Prize

“Pizza Passionata” from Kari Juusonen (Finland)

Special Jury Prize

“Daddy’s Girl” from Irvine Allan (Scotland)

The Winners of the Cinefondation Awards are…

1st Prize :
“Portrait” by Sergei LUCHISHIN – Ukraine, presented by the Russian State Insitute of Cinema (VGIK)
2nd Prize :
“Reparation” by Jens JONSSON – Sweden, presented by Dramatiska Institutet
3rd Prize ex æquo :
“Dai Bi”(Run Away) by YANG Chao – China, presented by the Beijing Film Academy
“Crow Stone” by Alicia Duffy – United Kingdom, presented by the National Film and Television School

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