| Cannes Film Festival 2001 Jury President: Liv Ullmann Other Jurors: Mimmo Calopresti, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Terry Gilliam, Sandrine Kiberlain, Philippe Labro, Julia Ormond, Moufida Tlatli, Edward Yang |
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| Palme d'Or: | The Son's Room, Italy, dir. Nanni Moretti |
| Grand Jury Prize: | The Piano Teacher, dir. Michael Haneke |
| Best Director: | The Man Who Wasn't There, Joel Coen Mulholland Drive, David Lynch |
| Best Actress: | The Piano Teacher, Isabelle Huppert |
| Best Actor: | The Piano Teacher, Benoît Magimel |
| Best Screenplay: | No Man's Land, Danis Tanovic |
| Technical Grand Prize: | Millennium Mambo and What Time Is It There?, Tu Du-che, sound design |
| FIPRESCI/International Critics Prize: | The Son's Room, dir. Nanni Moretti |
| Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: | Kandahar, dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
| Camera d'Or (first feature): | Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), dir. Zacharias Kunuk |
Competition Films I Have Seen:Ranked in order of preference
My Palme d'Or
Mulholland Drive (USA, dir. David Lynch) -
The Piano Teacher (Austria, dir. Michael Haneke) -
Moulin Rouge! (USA/Australia, dir. Baz Luhrmann) -
Kandahar (Iran, dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf) -
The Man Who Wasn't There (USA, dir. Joel Coen) -
The Son's Room (Italy, dir. Nanni Moretti) -
Millennium Mambo (Taiwan, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien) -
No Man's Land (Bosnia-Herzegovina, dir. Danis Tanovic) -
The Pledge (USA, dir. Sean Penn) -
Shrek (USA, dirs. Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson) -
My Jury Votes:
| Best Director: | Mulholland Drive, David Lynch |
| Best Actress: | The Piano Teacher, Michael Haneke |
| Best Actor: | The Pledge, Jack Nicholson |
| Best Screenplay: | The Man Who Wasn't There, Joel and Ethan Coen |
| Technical Grand Prize: | Moulin Rouge!, Catherine Martin, production design |
Sidebar Selections I Have Seen:Ranked in order of preference
Apocalypse Now Redux (Out of Competition: USA, dir. Francis Ford Coppola) -
Late Marriage (Un Certain Regard: Israel, dir. Dover Kosashvili) -
Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (Un Certain Regard: Canada, dir. Zacharias Kunuk) -
Trouble Every Day (Out of Competition: France, dir. Claire Denis) -
The Heart of the World (Directors' Fortnight: Canada, dir. Guy Maddin) -
Bintou (Directors' Fortnight: Burkina Faso/France, dir. Fanta Régina Nacro) -
The Deep End (Directors' Fortnight: USA, dirs. Scott McGehee & David Siegel) -
Lan Yu (Un Certain Regard: Hong Kong, dir. Stanley Kwan) -
The Anniversary Party (Un Certain Regard: USA, dirs. Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh) -
Human Nature (Out of Competition: USA, dir. Michel Gondry) -
Competition Films I'm Curious to See:
Ranked in order of interest; more on this year's lineup here (opens in a new window)
What Time Is It There?, Taiwan, dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, Japan, dir. Shohei Imamura
Taurus, Russia, dir. Aleksandr Sokurov
In Praise of Love, Switzerland, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
I'm Going Home, Portugal, dir. Manoel de Oliveira
Va savoir, France, dir. Jacques Rivette
Desert Moon, Japan, dir. Shinji Aoyama
Distance, Japan, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Profession of Arms, Italy, dir. Ermanno Olmi
| Also in Competition: |
The Officer's Ward, France, dir. François Dupeyron Pau and His Brothers, Spain, dir. Marc Recha Replay, France/Canada, dir. Catherine Corsini Roberto Succo, France/Switzerland, dir. Cédric Kahn |
Sidebar Films I'm Curious to See:
Listed alphabetically; more on this year's lineup here (opens in a new window)
| Un Certain Regard: |
Carrément à l'Ouest, France, dir. Jacques Doillon La libertad, Argentino, dir. Lisandro Alonso Lovely Rita, Austria, dir. Jessica Hausner No Such Thing, USA, dir. Hal Hartley Storytelling, USA, dir. Todd Solondz Tears of the Black Tiger, Thailand, dir. Wisit Sasanatieng |
| Directors' Fortnight: |
Chelsea Walls, USA, dir. Ethan Hawke The Crossing, France, dir. Sébastien Lifshitz Rain, New Zealand, dir. Christine Jeffs Stuff and Dough, Romania, dir. Cristi Puiu Workers, Peasants, Italy/France, dirs. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet |
| Critics' Week: |
Bolivia, Argentina, dir. Adrián Caetano The Pornographer, France, dir. Bertrand Bonello Under the Moonlight, Iran, dir. Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi |
| Out of Competition: |
ABC Africa, Iran, dir. Abbas Kiarostami The Center of the World, USA, dir. Wayne Wang CQ, USA, dir. Roman Coppola My Voyage to Italy, USA/Italy, dir. Martin Scorsese Savage Souls, France/Belgium/Switzerland, dir. Raul Ruiz Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4PM, France, dir. Claude Lanzmann |
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