# 1992 Cannes Film Festival

The 45th Cannes Film Festival took place from 7 to 18 May 1992. French actor Gérard Depardieu served as jury president for the main competition.
Swedish filmmaker Bille August won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for a second time with the drama-film The Best Intentions.
The festival opened with Basic Instinct by Paul Verhoeven, and closed with Far and Away by Ron Howard.

## Juries
### Main competition

* Gérard Depardieu, French actor - Jury President
* Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
* John Boorman, British filmmaker
* René Cleitman, French
* Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
* Carlo Di Palma, Italian cinematographer
* Nana Jorjadze, Georgian filmmaker
* Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan filmmaker
* Serge Toubiana, French
* Joële Van Effenterre, French

### Camera d'Or

* André Delvaux, Belgian filmmaker - Jury President
* Olivier Bauer, French actor
* Gian Piero Brunetta, Italian journalist
* Pierre Favre, French film critic
* Richard Hasselmann, French cinephile
* João Lopes, Portuguese journalist
* David Meeker, British foreign delegate
* Gérard Mordillat, French director

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| A Stranger Among Us | A Stranger Among Us | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| Basic Instinct (opening film) | Basic Instinct (opening film) | Paul Verhoeven | United States, United Kingdom, France |
| The Best Intentions | Den goda viljan | Bille August | Sweden |
| Crush | Crush | Alison Maclean | New Zealand |
| Dark at Noon | L'Œil qui ment | Raúl Ruiz | Portugal, France |
| Dream of Light | El sol del membrillo | Víctor Erice | Spain |
| In the Country of Juliets | Au pays des Juliets | Mehdi Charef | France |
| An Independent Life | Самостоятельная жизнь | Vitali Kanevsky | Russia |
| The Journey | El viaje | Fernando Solanas | Argentina |
| Howards End | Howards End | James Ivory | United Kingdom, United States, Japan |
| Hyenas | Hyènes | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal |
| The Sentinel | La sentinelle | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| The Long Day Closes | The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies | United Kingdom |
| Luna Park | Луна-парк | Pavel Lungin | France, Russia |
| Léolo | Léolo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | Canada |
| Of Mice and Men | Of Mice and Men | Gary Sinise | United States |
| The Player | The Player | Robert Altman | United States |
| The Return of Casanova | Le Retour de Casanova | Édouard Niermans | France |
| Simple Men | Simple Men | Hal Hartley | United States |
| The Stolen Children | Il ladro di bambini | Gianni Amelio | Italy |
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | France, United States |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| American Me | American Me | Edward James Olmos | United States |
| And Life Goes On | زندگی و دیگر هیچ | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| Apple Trees | Apfelbäume | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Germany |
| The Arrival of Averill | Averills Ankommen | Michael Schottenberg | Austria |
| Bad Lieutenant | Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | United States |
| Being at Home with Claude | Being at Home with Claude | Jean Beaudin | Canada |
| The Blue Eyes of Yonta | Udju Azul di Yonta | Flora Gomes | Portugal, Guinea-Bissau |
| The Chekist | Чекист | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | France, Russia |
| Cousin Bobby | Cousin Bobby | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| Crystal Nights | Κρυστάλλινες νύχτες | Tonia Marketaki | Greece |
| Happy Days | Счастливые дни | Aleksei Balabanov | Soviet Union |
| Memory of Water | La memoria del agua | Héctor Fáver | Spain, Argentina |
| Modern Crimes | Modern Crimes | Alejandro Agresti | Netherlands, Argentina |
| Mon Desir | Mon Desir | Nicky Marshall | New Zealand |
| The Ox | Oxen | Sven Nykvist | Sweden |
| Prague | Prague | Ian Sellar | United Kingdom |
| Strictly Ballroom | Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | Australia |
| The Summer Guest | A nyaraló | Can Togay | Hungary |
| Through an Open Window | Through an Open Window | Eric Mendelsohn | United States |
| Wedding Night – End of the Song | Hochzaeitsnuecht | Pol Cruchten | Luxembourg |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| As in Heaven | Svo á jörðu sem á himni | Kristín Jóhannesdóttir | Iceland |
| Le batteur du Boléro (short) | Le batteur du Boléro (short) | Patrice Leconte | France |
| Beauty and the Beast | Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | United States |
| The Boys from St. Petri | Drengene fra Sankt Petri | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Denmark |
| Far and Away (closing film) | Far and Away (closing film) | Ron Howard | United States |
| House of Angels | Änglagård | Colin Nutley | Sweden, Denmark, Norway |
| Map of the Human Heart | Map of the Human Heart | Vincent Ward | Australia, Canada, France, United Kingdom |
| The Oak | Balanța | Lucian Pintilie | Romania |
| Opening Night (1977) | Opening Night (1977) | John Cassavetes | United States |
| Othello (1951) | The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice | Orson Welles | Italy, Morocco |
| Pather Panchali (1955) | Pather Panchali (1955) | Satyajit Ray | India |
| Patrick Dewaere | Patrick Dewaere | Marc Esposito | France |
| Reservoir Dogs | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| Sarafina! | Sarafina! | Darrell Roodt | United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, France |
| The Warrior's Heart | Krigerens hjerte | Leidulv Risan | Norway |

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Az út by Nikolai Ivanov Neikov
* Cheating, Inc. by William Lorton
* Daumier's Law by Geoff Dunbar
* L'échange by Vincent Pérez
* Encolure 42 by Willy Kempeneers
* Ghalb by Sa'ied Mojaveri
* Keine besonderen Vorkommnisse by Jürgen Schönhoff
* Le métro by Catherine Montondo
* No Problem by Craig Welch
* Omnibus by Sam Karmann
* A Passion Play by Tony Twigg
* La sensation by Manuel Poutte

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 31st International Critics' Week (31e Semaine de la Critique):
Feature film competition
* Adorable Lies (Adorables mentiras) by Gerardo Chijona (Cuba)
* Anmonaito no sasayaki wo kiita by Isao Yamada (Japan)
* Archipiélago by Pablo Perelman (Chile)
* Die flucht by David Rühm (Austria)
* The Grocer’s Wife by John Pozer (Canada)
* Ingalo by Asdis Thorrodsen (Iceland)
* Man Bites Dog (C’est arrivé près de chez vous) by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde (Belgium)
Short film competition
* Floating by Richard Heslop (United Kingdom)
* Home Stories by Matthias Müller (Germany)
* Les Marionnettes by Marc Chevrie (France)
* Le Petit chat est mort by Fejria Deliba (France)
* Revolver by Chester Dent (United Kingdom)
* The Room by Jeff Balsmeyer (United States)
* Sprickan by Kristian Petri (Sweden)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1992 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Am Ende der Nacht by Christoph Schaub
* Le Amiche del cuore by Michele Placido
* Angel of Fire (Angel de fuego) by Dana Rotberg
* Archipel by Pierre Granier-Deferre
* Baduk by Majid Majidi
* Benny’s Video by Michael Haneke
* Bob Roberts by Tim Robbins
* Les contes sauvages by Gérald Calderon, Jean-Charles Cuttoli
* Coupable d’innocence by Marcin Ziębiński
* Don Quijote by Orson Welles, Jesús Franco
* Dust of Angels by Hsu Hsiao-ming
* Eux by Levan Zakareishvili
* Hay Que Zurrar A Los Pobres by Santiago San Miguel
* Love at First Sight [de] by Rudolf Thome
* Love (Lyubov) by Valery Todorovsky
* Mac by John Turturro
* My New Gun by Stacy Cochran
* Otrazheniye v zerkale by Svetlana Proskurina
* Le Petit Prince a dit by Christine Pascal
* Quelque part vers Conakry by Françoise Ebrard
* Sans un cri by Jeanne Labrune
* Vagabond by Ann Le Monnier
* Warszawa. Année 5703 by Janusz Kijowski
    Short films
* L’autre Célia by Irène Jouannet
* F.X. Messerschmidt sculpteur (1736-1783) by Marino Vagliano
* Juliette by Didier Bivel
* Le Trou de la corneille by François Hanss
* Léa by Christophe Debuisne
* Pilotes by Olivier Zagar
* Versailles Rive Gauche by Bruno Podalydès
* Voleur d’images by Bruno Victor-Pujebet

## Official Awards
### In Competition

* Palme d'Or: The Best Intentions by Bille August
* Grand Prize of the Jury: The Stolen Children by Gianni Amelio
* Best Director: Robert Altman for The Player
* Best Actress: Pernilla August for The Best Intentions
* Best Actor: Tim Robbins for The Player
* Jury Prize:
** Dream of Light by Víctor Erice
** An Independent Life by Vitali Kanevsky
* 45th Anniversary Prize: Howards End by James Ivory

### Caméra d'Or

* Mac by John Turturro

### Short Film Palme d'Or

* Omnibus by Sam Karmann

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prize

* Dream of Light by Víctor Erice

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Fernando Solanas (for technical visual and aural excellence) for The Journey

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* The Stolen Children by Gianni Amelio
** Special Mention:
*** In the Country of Juliets by Mehdi Charef
*** The Journey by Fernando Solanas

### Award of the Youth

* Foreign Film: Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann
* French Film: Sans un cri by Jeanne Labrune
* Special Award of the Youth: Man Bites Dog by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde

### International Critics' Week

* SACD Award:
** Best Short: The Room by Jeff Balsmeyer
** Best Feature: Man Bites Dog by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
* Canal+ Award: Floating by Richard Heslop