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Sharon Stone at the Deauville American Film Festival in 1991.

The Deauville American Film Festival is a yearly film festival devoted to American cinema, taking place since 1975 in Deauville, France. It was established by Lionel Chouchan and André Halimi. Although not competitive at its origin, the festival began to award prizes in 1995, for feature films, and 1998 for short films.

Awards

Grand Prix du jury

This award was named Grand Prix spécial Deauville from 1995 to 2007 and Grand Prix du cinéma indépendant américain in 1998 and 1999.

• 1995 : Living in Oblivion, directed by Tom DiCillo
• 1996 : The Daytrippers, directed by Greg Mottola
• 1997 : Sunday, directed by Jonathan Nossiter
• 1998 : Next Stop Wonderland, directed by Brad Anderson
• 1999 : Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze
• 2000 : Girlfight, directed by Karyn Kusama
• 2001 : Hedwig and the Angry Inch, directed by John Cameron Mitchell
• 2002 : Raising Victor Vargas, directed by Peter Sollett
• 2003 : What Alice Found, directed by A Dean Bell
• 2004 : Maria Full of Grace, directed by Joshua Marston
• 2005 : Crash, directed by Paul Haggis
• 2006 : Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton et Valerie Faris
• 2007 : The Dead Girl, directed by Karen Moncrieff

Prix du jury

The award was called Prix du jury spécial Deauville (Special Deauville Jury Award) from 1995 through 1997 and Prix spécial du jury du cinéma indépendant américain (Special Jury Award of American Independent Film) in 1998 and 1999.

• 1995 : tied : Denise au téléphone, directed by Hal Salwen, and Les Frères McMullen, directed by Edward Burns
• 1996 : tied Bound, directed by Larry et Andy Wachowski, and Bienvenue dans l'âge ingrat, directed by Todd Solondz
• 1997 : tied : En compagnie des hommes, directed by Neil LaBute, and Ulee's Gold, directed by Victor Nuñez
• 1998 : High Art, directed by Lisa Cholodenko
• 1999 : tied : Les Frères Falls, directed by Michael Polish, and Guinevere, directed by Audrey Wells
• 2000 : tied : Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, et Les Initiés, directed by Ben Younger
• 2001 : Ghost World, directed by Terry Zwigoff
• 2002 : tied : Photo Obsession, directed by Mark Romanek, and L.I.E., directed by Michael Cuesta
• 2003 : Thirteen, directed by Catherine Hardwicke
• 2003 : The Woodsman, directed by Nicole Kassell
• 2005 : tied Girls in America (On the Outs), directed by Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik, and Keane, directed by Lodge Kerrigan
• 2006 : Half Nelson, directed by Ryan Fleck
• 2007 : Never Forever, directed by Gina Kim

The jurys

• 1995 : Andrei Konchalovsky (president), Anouk Aimée, Michael Lonsdale, Claudie Ossard, René Bonnell, Valérie Kaprisky, Steven Zaillian, Mathilda May, Élie Chouraqui and Yvan Attal.
• 1996 : Charlotte Rampling (president), Sabine Azéma, René Cleitman, Dominique Farrugia, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Laura Morante, Ornella Muti, Melvil Poupaud and Alain Rocca.
• 1997 : Sophie Marceau (president), Élodie Bouchez, Philippe Carcassonne, Étienne Chatiliez, Alain Finkielkraut, John Hurt, Michèle Laroque, Inés Sastre, Nathalie Quintane and Lambert Wilson.
• 1998 : Jean-Paul Rappeneau (president), Michèle Halberstadt, Sandrine Kiberlain, Virginie Ledoyen, Russell Banks, Maurice Bernart, Alessandro Gassman, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Éric Serra and Christian Vincent.
• 1999 : Régis Wargnier (president), Jean-Hugues Anglade, Humbert Balsan, Richard Berry, Gabriel Byrne, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Marie Gillain, Michel Houellebecq, Marie-France Pisier and Elsa Zylberstein.
• 2000 : Neil Jordan (president), Guillaume Canet, Clotilde Courau, Tchéky Karyo, Philippe Labro, Samuel Le Bihan, François Ozon, Vincent Perez, Danièle Thompson and Marie Trintignant.
• 2001 : Jean-Jacques Annaud (president), Sandrine Bonnaire, Marion Cotillard, Arielle Dombasle, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Darius Khondji, Benoît Poelvoorde and Gabriel Yared.
• 2002 : Pierre Lescure (president), Chantal Akerman, Richard Anconina, Jean-Marc Barr, Charles Berling, Amira Casar, Julie Gayet, Irène Jacob, Cédric Kahn and Bruno Wolkowitch.
• 2003 : Roman Polanski (president), Claudia Cardinale, Pawel Edelman, Jacques Fieschi, Ben Kingsley, Anne Parillaud, Zbigniew Preisner, Ludivine Sagnier, Fernando Trueba and Tom Tykwer.
• 2004 : Claude Lelouch (president), Anouk Aimée, Marie-Josée Croze, Danièle Heymann, Diane Kurys, Jeanne Labrune, Lio, Claudie Ossard, Bettina Rheims and Mathilde Seigner.
• 2005 : Alain Corneau (president), Enki Bilal, Dominique Blanc, Romane Bohringer, Rachida Brakni, Christophe, Dominik Moll, Melvil Poupaud and Brigitte Roüan.
• 2006 : Nicole Garcia (president), Maurice Barthélémy, Guillaume Canet, Amira Casar, Emmanuelle Castro, Antoine de Caunes, Julien Clerc, Philippe Djian and Marthe Keller.
• 2007 : André Téchiné (president), Odile Barski, Xavier Beauvois, Nicolas Cazalé, Charlélie Couture, Émilie Deleuze, Anouk Grinberg and Marie-France Pisier.
• 2008 : Carole Bouquet (president), Édouard Baer, Ronit Elkabetz, Diane Fleri, Pierre Jolivet, Cédric Kahn, Cristian Mungiu, Leonor Silveira and Dean Tavoularis.

See also

• Deauville Asian Film Festival

External links

• Official site