2002 Cannes Film Festival

2002 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 55th Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Opening filmHollywood Ending
Closing filmAnd Now... Ladies
and Gentlemen
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or:
The Pianist
Hosted byVirginie Ledoyen
No. of films22 (Main Competition)
Festival date15 May 2002 (2002-05-15) – 26 May 2002 (2002-05-26)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 55th Cannes Film Festival took place from 15 to 26 May 2002.[2][3][4] American filmmaker David Lynch served as jury president for the main competition. Virginie Ledoyen hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.[5]

French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film The Pianist. While American filmmaker Woody Allen was awarded 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.[6]

The festival opened with Hollywood Ending by Woody Allen, [7] and closed with Claude Lelouch's And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen.[8][9][10]

2002 Un Certain Regard poster.[11]
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  4. ^ "2002 Cannes Film Festival". Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Ledoyen to reign again". Variety.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  6. ^ "A Honorary Palme at the opening ceremony of the Festival de Cannes". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 24 January 2016.
  7. ^ "Hollywood Ending gets its international fest premiere before Cannes at San Francisco". screendaily.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017. needs subscription
  8. ^ "Festivals: 2002 Cannes Film Festival Special Screenings Lineup". indiewire.com. 24 March 2001. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  9. ^ "Lelouch 'Ladies' to end Cannes". Variety.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  10. ^ "Cannes 2002 – A Preview". urbancinefile.com. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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