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The 2001 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the Itallian film The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti.

Feature film competition

Jury

• Liv Ullmann, President (Sweden)
• Mimmo Calopresti (Italy)
• Charlotte Gainsbourg (United Kingdom)
• Terry Gilliam (United States)
• Mathieu Kassovitz (France)
• Sandrine Kiberlain (France)
• Philippe Labro (France)
• Julia Ormond (United Kingdom)
• Moufida Tlati (Tunisia)
• Edward Yang (Taiwan)

Films in Competition

• Desert Moon, by Shinji Aoyama
• Distance, by Hirokazu Koreeda
• I'm Going Home, by Manoel de Oliveira
• In Praise of Love, by Jean-Luc Godard
• Kandahar, by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• The Man Who Wasn't There, by Joel Coen
• Millennium Mambo, by Hsiao-hsien Hou
• Moulin Rouge!, by Baz Luhrmann
• Mulholland Dr., by David Lynch
• No Man's Land, by Danis Tanovic
• Officer's Ward, by François Dupeyron
• Pau and His Brother, by Marc Recha
• The Piano Teacher, by Michael Haneke
• The Pledge, by Sean Penn
• The Profession of Arms, by Ermanno Olmi
• Replay, by Catherine Corsini
• Roberto Succo, by Cédric Kahn
• Shrek, by Andrew Adamson
• The Son's Room, by Nanni Moretti
• Telets, by Aleksandr Sokurov
• Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, by Shohei Imamura
• What Time Is It There?, by Tsai Ming-liang
• Va savoir, by Jacques Rivette

Films out of Competition

• A.B.C. Africa, by Abbas Kiarostami
• Apocalypse Now Redux, by Francis Ford Coppola
• Avalon, by Oshii Mamoru
• CQ, by Roman Coppola
• Human Nature, by Michel Gondry
• My Voyage to Italy, by Martin Scorsese
• Savage Souls, by Raoul Ruiz
• Sobibor, by Claude Lanzmann
• The Center of the World, by Wayne Wang
• Trouble Every Day, by Claire Denis

Awards

• Palme d'Or: The Son's Room, by Nanni Moretti
• Grand Prix: The Piano Teacher, by Michael Haneke
• Best Actress Award: Isabelle Huppert in The Piano Teacher
• Best Actor Award: Benoît Magimel in The Piano Teacher
• Best Director Award: The Man Who Wasn't There, by Joel Coen and Mulholland Dr., by David Lynch
• Best Screenplay Award: Danis Tanovic for No Man's Land

See also

• Cannes Film Festival
• Palme d'Or
• Film festival
• Cannes