The 57th Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 23 May 2004. American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino served as jury president for the main competition. While American filmmaker Michael Moore won the Palme d'Or for the documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11, becoming the first documentary to win the festival's main prize since The Silent World in 1956.

The festival opening film was Bad Education directed by Pedro Almodóvar, while De-Lovely directed by Irwin Winkler was the closing film. Laura Morante was mistress of the ceremonies.]]

Juries

Main competition

  • Quentin Tarantino, American filmmaker - Jury President
  • Emmanuelle Béart, French actress and director
  • Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist
  • Tsui Hark, Hong Kong director
  • Benoît Poelvoorde, Belgian actor
  • Jerry Schatzberg, American director
  • Tilda Swinton, British actress
  • Kathleen Turner, American actress
  • Peter von Bagh, Finnish film historian

Un Certain Regard

  • Jeremy Thomas, British producer - Jury President
  • Michel Demopoulos, Greek critic
  • Carlos Gomez, Spanish critic
  • Eric Libiot, French critic
  • Baba Richerme, Italian journalist
  • Eva Zaoralova, Czech artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition

  • Nikita Mikhalkov, Russian actor and filmmaker - Jury President
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkish filmmaker
  • Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
  • Nicole Garcia, French actress and director
  • Pablo Trapero, Argentinian director

Camera d'Or

  • Tim Roth, British actor - Jury President
  • Alberto Barbera, Italian film critic
  • Nguyen Trong Binh, French distributor
  • Alain Choquart, French cinematographer
  • Isabelle Frilley, French representative of the technical industries
  • Diego Galan, Spanish critic
  • Laure Protat, French cinephile
  • Aldo Tassone, Italian critic
  • Anne Theron, French director

Official Selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:

{| class="wikitable" width="100%"

|-

!scope="col" | English title

!scope="col" | Original title

!scope="col" | Director(s)

!scope="col" | Production Country

|-

| colspan=2 |2046|| data-sort-value=“Wong”| Wong Kar-wai || Hong Kong, France, Italy, China, Germany

|-

| colspan=2 |Clean|| data-sort-value=“Assayas”| Olivier Assayas || France, United Kingdom, Canada

|-

| The Consequences of Love||Le conseguenze dell'amore|| data-sort-value=“Sorrentino”| Paolo Sorrentino || Italy

|-

| The Edukators||Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei|| data-sort-value=“Weingartner”| Hans Weingartner || Austria, Germany

|-

| colspan="2" | Exils|| data-sort-value="“Gatlif”" | Tony Gatlif || France

|-style="background:#FFDEAD"

| colspan=2 |Fahrenheit 9/11||data-sort-value=“Moore”| Michael Moore || United States

|-

| Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence||イノセンス, Inosensu|| data-sort-value="“Oshii”" | Mamoru Oshii || Japan

|-

| The Holy Girl||La niña santa|| data-sort-value=“Martel”| Lucrecia Martel || Argentina, Italy

|-

| colspan=2 |The Ladykillers|| data-sort-value=“Coen”| Joel and Ethan Coen || United States

|-

| colspan=2 |The Life and Death of Peter Sellers|| data-sort-value=“Hopkins”| Stephen Hopkins || United Kingdom, United States

|-

| Life Is a Miracle||Живот је чудо|| data-sort-value="“Kusturica”" | Emir Kusturica || Serbia

|-

| Look at Me||Comme une image|| data-sort-value=“Jaoui”| Agnès Jaoui || France

|-

| The Motorcycle Diaries||Diarios de motocicleta|| data-sort-value=“Salles”| Walter Salles || Argentina, Brazil, United States, Chile, Peru

|-

| colspan=2 |Mondovino|| data-sort-value=“Nossiter”| Jonathan Nossiter || United States

|-

| Nobody Knows||誰も知らない|| data-sort-value="“Koreeda”" | Hirokazu Kore-eda || Japan

|-

| Oldboy||올드보이|| data-sort-value="“Park”" | Park Chan-wook || South Korea

|-

| colspan=2 |Shrek 2|| data-sort-value=“Adamson”| Andrew Adamson || United States

|-

| Tropical Malady||สัตว์ประหลาด|| data-sort-value="“Weerasethakul”" | Apichatpong Weerasethakul || Thailand

|-

| Woman Is the Future of Man||여자는 남자의 미래다|| data-sort-value="“Hong”" | Hong Sang-soo || South Korea

|}

Un Certain Regard

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

|Quentin Tarantino

|United States

|-

| colspan="2" |Notre musique

|Jean-Luc Godard

|France, Switzerland

|-

| colspan="2" |Salvador Allende

|Patricio Guzmán

|Chile

|-

| colspan="2" |Troy

|Wolfgang Petersen

|United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Malta

|-

|Words in Progress

|Épreuves d'artistes

|Gilles Jacob

|France

|-

| colspan="2" |Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

|Alexandra Cassavetes

|United States

|}

Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:

{| class="wikitable"

!English title

!Original title

!Director(s)

!Production country

|-

! colspan="4" |Tributes

|-

|Black God, White Devil (1964)

|Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol

|Glauber Rocha

|Brazil

|-

| colspan="2" |Blowup (1966)

|Michelangelo Antonioni

|United Kingdom, Italy

|-

|Bye Bye Brazil (1979)

|Bye Bye Brasil

|Carlos Diegues

|Brazil, France, Argentina

|-

| colspan="2" |College (1927)

|James W. Horne

|United States

|-

|Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)

|Dona Flor e seus dois maridos

|Bruno Barreto

| rowspan="2" |Brazil

|-

|Entranced Earth (1967)

|Terra em transe

|Glauber Rocha

|-

|The Gaze of Michelangelo <small>(short)</small> (2004)

|Lo sguardo di Michelangelo

|Michelangelo Antonioni

|Italy

|-

| colspan="2" |The General (1926)

|Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman

|United States

|-

|Keeper of Promises (1964)

|O Pagador de Promessas

|Anselmo Duarte

| rowspan="2" |Brazil

|-

| colspan="2" |Macunaíma (1968)

|Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

|-

| colspan="2" |Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

|Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner

|United States

|-

| colspan="2" |Vidas Secas (1963)

|Nelson Pereira dos Santos

|Brazil

|-

! colspan="4" |Restored Prints

|-

|Amelie's Trip (1974)

|Le voyage d'Amélie

|Daniel Duval

|France

|-

|The Battle of Algiers (1965)

|La battaglia di Algeri

|Gillo Pontecorvo

|Italy, Algeria

|-

|Before the Revolution (1964)

|Prima della rivoluzione

|Bernardo Bertolucci

|Italy

|-

| colspan="2" |The Big Red One (1980)

|Samuel Fuller

|United States

|-

| colspan="2" |Deadlier Than the Male (1966)

|Ralph Thomas

|United Kingdom

|-

| colspan="2" |Hair (1979)

|Miloš Forman

|United States, West Germany

|-

|The Inner Scar (1967)

|La cicatrice intérieure

|Philippe Garrel

|France

|-

| colspan="2" |The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

|Tony Richardson

|United Kingdom

|-

| colspan="2" |Mother India (1957)

|Mehboob Khan

|India

|-

|The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971)

|新獨臂刀

|Chang Cheh

|Hong Kong

|-

| colspan="2" |Ordet (1955)

|Carl Theodor Dreyer

|Denmark

|-

|Pickpocket (1959)

|

|Robert Bresson

|France

|}

Parallel Sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 43rd International Critics' Week (43e Semaine de la Critique):

Competition

  • À Casablanca les anges ne volent pas by Mohamed Asli (Morocco, Italy)
  • Thirst (Atash) by Tawfik Abu Wael (Israel, Palestine)
  • A Common Thread (Brodeuses) by Éléonore Faucher (France)
  • Calvaire by Fabrice Du Welz (Belgium, France, Luxembourg)
  • CQ2 (Seek You Too) by Carole Laure (Canada, France)
  • Or (My Treasure) (Or) by Keren Yedaya (France, Israel)
  • Duck season (Temporada de patos) by Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico)

Short Films Competition

  • Alice and I (Alice et moi) by Micha Wald (Belgium)
  • Breaking Out by Marianela Maldonado (United States)
  • Con Diva (With Diva) by Sebastian Mantilla (Spain)
  • The Man with No Shadow (L'homme sans ombre) by Georges Schwizgebel (Canada, Switzerland)
  • Los elefantes nunca olvidan by Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
  • Ryan by Chris Landreth (Canada)
  • Signes de vie by Arnaud Demuynck (France, Belgium)

Special Screenings

  • L'Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas by Michelle Porte (France) <small>(opening film)</small>
  • Adieu Philippine by Jacques Rozier (France) <small>(La séance du Parrain)</small>
  • What Remains of Us (Ce qu’il reste de nous) by François Prévost & Hugo Latulippe (Canada) <small>(Docu.)</small>
  • Metropolitan Express (Stolitchny Skory) by Artyom Antonov (Russia) <small>(Short)</small>
  • Les Parallèles by Nicolas Saada (France) <small>(Short)</small>
  • Girls and Cars by Thomas Woschitz (Austria) <small>(Short)</small>
  • De l'autre côté by Nassim Amaouche (France) <small>(Prix de la Critique)</small>
  • Anna (3 kgs 2) by Laurette Polmanss (France) <small>(Prix de la Critique)</small>
  • Sotto falso nome by Roberto Andò (Italy, France, Switzerland) <small>(closing film)</small>

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 2004 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):

  • A vot' bon cœur by Paul Vecchiali (France)
  • Dans les champs de bataille by Danielle Arbid (France, Belgium, Lebanon)
  • En attendant le déluge by Damien Odoul (France)
  • The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Le livre de Jérémie) by Asia Argento (United States, France, United Kingdom, Japan)
  • The Hook (Je suis un assassin) by Thomas Vincent (France)
  • Mean Creek by Jacob Aaron Estes (United States)
  • Machuca by Andrés Wood (France, Spain, Chile)
  • Los muertos by Lisandro Alonso (Argentina, France, Netherlands, Switzerland)
  • Mur (doc.) by Simone Bitton (France, Israel)
  • Oh, Uomo (doc.) by Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi (Italy)
  • The River's End by Behrouz Afkhami (Iran)
  • The Scent of Blood (L'odore del sangue) by Mario Martone (Italy, France)
  • Sommeil Amer by Mohsen Amiryoussefi (Iran)
  • Tarnation (doc.) by Jonathan Caouette (United States)
  • The Taste of Tea by Katsuhito Ishii (Japan)
  • The Tunnel by Kunitoshi Manda (Japan)
  • Vénus et Fleur by Emmanuel Mouret (France)
  • Woman of Breakwater by Mario O'Hara (Philippines)
  • The Woodsman by Nicole Kassell (United States)
  • The Wound (La blessure) by Nicolas Klotz (France, Belgium)

:Short Films

  • A Feather Stare at the Dark by Naoyuki Tsuji (Japan)
  • Capitaine Achab by Philippe Ramos (France)
  • Charlotte by Ulrike Von Ribbeck (Germany)
  • Fill in the Blanks by Kim Youn-Sung (South Korea)
  • Frontier by Jun Miyazaki (Japan)
  • La petite chambre by Élodie Monlibert (France)
  • La peur, petit chasseur by Laurent Achard (France)
  • Le dieu Saturne by Jean-Charles Fitoussi (France)
  • Le droit chemin by Mathias Gokalp (France)
  • Odya by Edgar Bartenev (Russia)
  • Tristesse beau visage by Jean Paul Civeyrac (France)
  • Vostok 1 by Jan Andersen (France)

Official Awards

thumb|200px|[[Michael Moore, 2004 Palme d'Or winner]]

thumb|190px|[[Park Chan-wook, Grand Prix winner]]The following films and people received the 2004 Official selection awards:

Main Competition

  • Palme d'Or: Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
  • Grand Prix: Oldboy by Park Chan-wook
  • Best Director: Exils by Tony Gatlif
  • Best Screenplay: Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri for Look at Me
  • Best Actress: Maggie Cheung for Clean
  • Best Actor: Yūya Yagira for Nobody Knows
  • Prix du Jury:
  • Tropical Malady by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Irma P. Hall for The Ladykillers

Un Certain Regard

  • Prix Un Certain Regard: Moolaadé by Ousmane Sembène
  • Prix du Regard Original: Whisky by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll
  • Prix du Regard vers l'Avenir: Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi

Cinéfondation

  • First Prize: Happy Now by Frederikke Aspöck
  • Second Prize:
  • Calatorie la oras by Corneliu Porumboiu
  • 99 ans de ma vie by Marja Mikkonen
  • Third Prize: Fajnie, że jesteś by Jan Komasa

Caméra d'Or

  • Or (My Treasure) by Keren Yedaya
  • Special Mention:
  • Passages by Yang Chao
  • Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi

Short Films Competition

  • Short Film Palme d'Or: Trafic by Cătălin Mitulescu
  • Short Film Jury Prize: Flatlife by Jonas Geirnaert

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

  • Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore (In competition)
  • Whisky by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll (Un Certain Regard)
  • Thirst by Tawfik Abu Wael (International Critics' Week)

Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist

  • Éric Gautier, cinematographer in Clean and The Motorcycle Diaries

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

  • The Motorcycle Diaries by Walter Salles
  • Special mention: Moolaadé by Ousmane Sembène

Award of the Youth

  • Kontroll by Antal Nimród

Critics' Week

  • International Critics' Week Grand Prix:

References

Media

  • INA: Opening of the 2004 Festival <small>(commentary in French)</small>
  • INA: Much publicity about the 2004 Palme d'Or <small>(commentary in French)</small>
  • 2004 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
  • Official website Retrospective 2004
  • Cannes Film Festival Awards for 2004 at Internet Movie Database