1996 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner and Nominees

Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone’s secrets are exposed.

A Self-Made Hero

Jacques Audiard

Breaking the Waves

Lars von Trier

Crash

David Cronenberg

Drifting Clouds

Aki Kaurismäki

Earth

Julio Medem

Fargo

Joel Coen

Goodbye, South, Goodbye

Hsiao-Hsien Hou

Kansas City

Robert Altman

La seconda volta

Mimmo Calopresti

My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument

Arnaud Desplechin

Po di Sangui

Flora Gomes

Ridicule

Patrice Leconte

Stealing Beauty

Bernardo Bertolucci

Temptress Moon

Kaige Chen

The Eighth Day

Jaco Van Dormael

The Quiet Room

Rolf de Heer

The Sunchaser

Michael Cimino

The Van

Stephen Frears

Thieves

André Téchiné

Three Lives and Only One Death

Raoul Ruiz

Too Late

Lucian Pintilie