1994 Cannes Film Festival


1994 Cannes Film Festival


The 47th Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1994. The Palme d'Or went to the American film Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino.

The festival opened with The Hudsucker Proxy, directed by Joel Coen and closed with Serial Mom, directed by John Waters. Jeanne Moreau was the mistress of ceremonies.

Juries

Main competition

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1994 Official Selection:

  • Pupi Avati, Italian filmmaker and producer
  • Catherine Deneuve, French actress
  • Clint Eastwood, American filmmaker and actor - Jury President
  • Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban writer
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, British writer
  • Alexander Kaidanovsky, Russian actor and filmmaker
  • Marie-Françoise Leclère, French journalist
  • Lalo Schifrin, Argentine-American musician
  • Shin Sang-ok, South Korean filmmaker and producer
  • Alain Terzian, French-Armenian producer

Camera d'Or

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1994 Caméra d'Or:

  • Marthe Keller, Swiss actress - Jury President
  • Hans Beerekamp, Dutch journalist
  • Josée Brossard, France
  • Mario Dorminsky, Portugal
  • An-Cha Flubacher Rhim, Switzerland
  • François Ode, France
  • Georges Pansu, France
  • Jacques Zimmer, France

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: The Palme d'Or winner has been highlighted.

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 33rd International Critics' Week (33e Semaine de la Critique):

Feature film competition

Short film competition

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1994 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):

Short films

Awards

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1994 Official selection awards:

  • Palme d'Or: Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino
  • Grand Prize of the Jury:
    • To Live by Zhang Yimou
    • Burnt by the Sun by Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Best Director: Nanni Moretti for Caro diario
  • Best Screenplay: Grosse Fatigue by Michel Blanc
  • Best Actress: Virna Lisi for Queen Margot
  • Best Actor: Ge You for To Live
  • Jury Prize: Queen Margot by Patrice Chéreau

Golden Camera

  • Caméra d'Or: Coming to Terms with the Dead (Petits arrangements avec les morts) by Pascale Ferran
  • Golden Camera - Special Mention: The Silences of the Palace (Samt el qusur) by Moufida Tlatli

Short films

  • Short Film Palme d'Or: El héroe by Carlos Carrera
  • First Jury Prize: Lemming Aid by Grant Lahood
  • Second Jury Prize: Syrup by Paul Unwin

Independent awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

  • Bab El-Oued City by Merzak Allouache (Un Certain Regard)
  • Exotica by Atom Egoyan (In competition)

Commission Supérieure Technique

  • Technical Grand Prize: Pitof (special effects) in Dead Tired (Grosse Fatigue)

Ecumenical Jury

  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
    • To Live (Huozhe) - Zhang Yimou
    • Burnt by the Sun (Utomlyonnye solntsem) - Nikita Mikhalkov

Award of the Youth

  • Foreign Film: Clerks by Kevin Smith
  • French Film: Happy, Too Happy by Cédric Kahn

Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week

  • Mercedes-Benz Award: Clerks by Kevin Smith
  • Canal+ Award: Performance Anxiety by David Ewing
  • Kodak Short Film Award: Éternelles by Erick Zonca

References

Giuseppe Zanotti Luxury Sneakers

Media

  • INA: Opening of the 1994 Festival (commentary in French)
  • INA: List of winners of the 1994 festival (commentary in French)

External links

  • 1994 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
  • Official website Retrospective 1994 Archived 2019-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  • Cannes Film Festival:1994 at Internet Movie Database

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