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October 3, 2024
1999
Patricia Rozema’s MANSFIELD PARK opens the Festival, with highlights including Lasse Halström’s The Cider House Rules, Kevin Allen’s The Big Tease, and Scott Hick’s Snow Falling on Cedars. Tributes are made to Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck, John Frankenheimer, Morgan Freeman, and visual effects and...
October 3, 2024
1998
The careers of John Travolta, Pam Grier, John Boorman, and Monte Hellman are celebrated, while audiences get a first look at Bill Condon’s Gods and Monsters and Gary Ross’s Pleasantville. Angel On My Shoulder from director Donna Deitch is named Best Documentary, and Taiwanese director Ming-liang ...
October 3, 2024
1997
A Career Achievement Award is bestowed on Michael Douglas, with other honorees including Roger Corman and Liv Ullmann. The Festival launches its signature Black Perspectives program with a tribute to director Spike Lee. Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm screens, as does Andrew Niccol’s first feature, Gatta...
October 3, 2024
1996
Jodie Foster receives the Actor of the Decade Award, and audiences are treated to the premieres of Liv Ullman’s directorial debut Private Confessions, Billy Bob Thornton’s Sling Blade, Richard Spence’s Different For Girls, Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, and John Hick’s Shine. Also honored a...
October 3, 2024
1995
Highlights include the premiere of Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite, Bertrand Tavernier’s Fresh Bait, Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s Good Men, Good Women, and Marleen Gorris’s Antonia's Line, which goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda’s feature debut...
