2003 Cannes Film Festival

The 2003 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the American film "Elephant" by Gus Van Sant.

Feature film competition

Jury

* Patrice Chéreau, President (France)
* Aishwarya Rai (India)
* Meg Ryan (United States)
* Karin Viard (France)
* Erri De Luca (Italy)
* Jean Rochefort (France)
* Steven Soderbergh (United States)
* Danis Tanovic (Bosnia)
* Jiang Wen (China)

Films in Competition

* "At Five in the Afternoon", by Samira Makhmalbaf
* "The Barbarian Invasions", by Denys Arcand
* "Bright Future", by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "The Brown Bunny", by Vincent Gallo
* "Carandiru", by Hector Babenco
* "Les Côtelettes", by Bertrand Blier
* "Distant", by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* "Dogville", by Lars von Trier
* "Elephant", by Gus Van Sant
* "Father and Son", by Aleksandr Sokurov
* "The Heart Is Elsewhere", by Pupi Avati
* "Little Lili", by Claude Miller
* "Mystic River", by Clint Eastwood
* "Purple Butterfly", by Lou Ye
* "Shara", by Naomi Kawase
* "Strayed", by André Téchiné
* "Swimming Pool", by François Ozon
* "That Day", by Raoul Ruiz
* "Tiresia", by Bertrand Bonello
* "", by Peter Greenaway

Films out of Competition

* "", by Richard Schickel
* "Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic", by N.T. Binh
* "", by Kenneth Bowser
* "Fanfan la tulipe", by Gérard Krawczyk
* "Ghosts of the Abyss", by James Cameron
* "Il Grido d'Angoscia Dell'uccello Predatore 20 Tagli d'Aprile", by Nanni Moretti
* "Lester James Peries, Cineaste d'Un Autre Temps", by Julien Plantureux
* "Mansion by the Lake", by Lester James Peries
* "Les Marches etc... (une comédie musicale)", by Gilles Jacob
* "The Time of the Wolf", by Michael Haneke
* "Les Triplettes de Belleville", by Sylvain Chomet

Awards

* Palme d'Or: "Elephant", by Gus Van Sant
* Grand Prix: "Distant", by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* Best Actress Award: Marie-Josée Croze in "The Barbarian Invasions"
* Best Actor Award: Muzaffer Özdemir in "Distant"
* Best Director Award: "Elephant", by Gus Van Sant
* Best Screenplay Award: Denys Arcand for "The Barbarian Invasions"
* Prix du Jury: "At Five in the Afternoon", by Samira Makhmalbaf

ee also

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