49th annual Cannes Film Festival (1996)
Palme d'Or:
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier - Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, United States)
My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument / Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (Arnaud Desplechin - France)
Crash (David Cronenberg - Canada)
Drifting Clouds / Kauas pilvet karkaavat (Aki Kaurismäki - Finland)
Earth / Tierra (Julio Medem - Spain)
The Eighth Day / Le huitième jour (Jaco Van Dormael - Belgium, France)
Fargo (Joel Coen - United States, United Kingdom)
Goodbye South, Goodbye / 南國再見,南國 (Hou Hsiao-hsien - Taiwan, Japan)
Kansas City (Robert Altman - United States)
The Quiet Room (Rolf de Heer - Australia)
Ridicule (opening film) (Patrice Leconte - France)
The Second Time / La seconda volta (Mimmo Calopresti - Italy)
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh - United Kingdom, France)
A Self-Made Hero / Un héros très discret (Jacques Audiard - France)
Stealing Beauty / Beauté volée / Io ballo da sola (Bernardo Bertolucci - France, Italy, United Kingdom)
The Sunchaser (Michael Cimino - United States)
Temptress Moon / 風月 (Chen Kaige - China)
Thieves / Les voleurs (André Téchiné - France)
Three Lives and Only One Death / Trois vies & une seule mort (Raúl Ruiz - France)
Too Late / Prea târziu (Lucian Pintilie - Romania)
Tree of Blood / Po di Sangui (Flora Gomes - Guinea-Bissau, France)
The Van (Stephen Frears - Ireland)
Grand Prix:
Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier
Best Director:
Joel Coen for Fargo
Best Actor:
Daniel Auteuil and Pascal Duquenne for The Eighth Day
Best Actress:
Brenda Blethyn for Secrets & Lies
Best Screenplay:
A Self-Made Hero by Jacques Audiard and Alain Le Henry
Jury Special Prize:
Crash by David Cronenberg