The 55th Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May 2002. The Palme d'Or went to The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski.[4][5][6][7]
Opening film | Hollywood Ending |
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Closing film | And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or: The Pianist[2] |
Hosted by | Virginie Ledoyen |
No. of films | 22 (En Competition)[3] 22 (Un Certain Regard) 17 (Out of Competition) 16 (Cinéfondation) 11 (Short Film Competition) |
Festival date | 15 May 2002 | – 26 May 2002
Website | festival-cannes |
The festival's "Opening Film" was Hollywood Ending, directed by Woody Allen,[8] Claude Lelouch's And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen was selected as the "Closing Film".[9][10][11] Virginie Ledoyen was the mistress of ceremonies.[12]
During the festival, director Woody Allen was also presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or, given to a director who had achieved a notable body of work but who had never won the regular Palme d'Or.[13]
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[3]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[3]
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
The following films were screened for the 41st International Critics' Week (41e Semaine de la Critique):[16]
Feature film competition
Short film competition
Special screenings
The following films were screened for the 2002 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[17]
The following films and people received the 2002 Official selection awards:[2][4][5]
Un Certain Regard
Cinéfondation
Golden Camera
Short Films
The inaugural Cannes Film Festival was to have been held in 1939, but was cancelled by the outbreak of the Second World War. The organizers of the 2002 festival assembled a jury of six members, including Dieter Kosslick and Alberto Barbera, to watch seven of the twelve features which had been entered in the 1939 competition, namely: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, La piste du nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific, and Boefje. Union Pacific was retrospectively voted the winner of the 1939 Palme d'Or.[19]
Award of the Youth[5]
Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week[23]
Awards in the frame of Directors' Fortnight[18]
Association Prix François Chalais
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