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Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 wins Cannes Film Award
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The Associated Press
Updated: 3:28 p.m. ET May 22, 2004CANNES, France - American filmmaker Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a scathing indictment of White House actions after the Sept. 11 attacks, won the top prize Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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“Fahrenheit 9/11” was the first documentary to win Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or since Jacques Cousteau’s “The Silent World” in 1956.
“What have you done? I’m completely overwhelmed by this. Merci,” Moore said after getting a standing ovation from the Cannes crowd.
The grand prize, the festival’s second-place honor, went to South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s “Old Boy,” a blood-soaked thriller about a man out for revenge after years of inexplicable imprisonment.
Moore was momentarily flabbergasted when he took the stage to accept the award, a big difference from his fiery speech against President Bush after winning the best-documentary Academy Award for 2002’s “Bowling for Columbine.”
“You have to understand, the last time I was on an awards stage, in Hollywood, all hell broke loose,” Moore said.
The best-actress award went to Maggie Cheung for her role in “Clean” as a junkie trying to straighten out her life and regain custody of her young son after her rock-star boyfriend dies of a drug overdose.
Fourteen-year-old Yagira Yuuya was named best actor for the Japanese film “Nobody Knows,” in which he plays the eldest of four sibling raised in isolation, who must take charge of the family when their mother leaves.
The directing and writing prizes went to French filmmakers. Tony Gatlif won the directing honor for “Exiles,” his road-trip about a couple on a sensual journey from France to Algeria.
Agnes Jaoui and her romantic partner, Jean-Pierre Bacri, won the screenplay award for “Look at Me,” their study in self-image centering on an overweight young woman who feels neglected by loved ones. Jaoui and Bacri also co-star.
Sharply divided audiences
“Fahrenheit 9/11” won the top award from sharply divided Cannes moviegoers, who found a solid crop of good movies among the 19 entries in the festival’s main competition but no great ones that rose to front-runner status.
While “Fahrenheit 9/11” was well-received by Cannes audiences, many critics felt it was inferior to Moore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” which earned him a special prize at Cannes in 2002.
Some critics speculated that if “Fahrenheit 9/11” won the top prize, it would be more for the film’s politics than its cinematic value.
With Moore’s customary blend of humor and horror, “Fahrenheit 9/11” accuses the Bush camp of stealing the 2000 election, overlooking terrorism warnings before Sept. 11 and fanning fears of more attacks to secure Americans’ support for the Iraq war.
Moore appears on-screen far less in “Fahrenheit 9/11” than in “Bowling for Columbine” or his other documentaries. The film relies largely on interviews, footage of U.S. soldiers and war victims in Iraq, and archival footage of Bush.
Just back in Cannes after his daughter’s college graduation in the United States, Moore dedicated the award to “my daughter and to all the children in America and Iraq and throughout the world who suffered through our actions.”
“Fahrenheit 9/11” made waves in the weeks leading up to Cannes after the Walt Disney Co. refused to let subsidiary Miramax release the film in the United States because of its political content. Miramax bosses Harvey and Bob Weinstein are negotiating to buy back the film and find another distributor, with hopes of landing it in theaters by Fourth of July weekend.
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