Following its debut at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, "Yi Yi" has collected a host of awards from prestigious international festivals. "Yi Yi" garnered director Edward Yang the Best Director at Cannes in 2000 and was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the same year. "Yi Yi" also won the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's Netpac Award ("For the perceptive and sensitive portrayal of a generation and cultural gap in Taiwan and the painful choices to be made in these difficult times."), the Vancouver International Film Festival's Chief Dan George Humanitarian Award and tied with "Topsy-Turvy" to win the 2000 Sarajevo Film Festival's Panorama Jury Award.