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The Deauville American Film Festival (French: Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville) is a yearly film festival devoted to American cinema, which has taken place since 1975 in Deauville, France.[1][2]
| Location | Deauville, France |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1975 |
| Language | English, French |
| Website | festival-deauville |
It was established by Lionel Chouchan, André Halimi, and then Mayor of Deauville Michel d'Ornano, with support from the Groupe Lucien Barrière in providing a luxurious setting for the Festival.[3] Although not competitive at its origin, the festival began to award prizes for feature films in 1995 and short films in 1998.
This award was named Grand Prix spécial Deauville from 1995 to 2007 and Grand Prix du cinéma indépendant américain in 1998 and 1999.
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Living in Oblivion | Tom DiCillo |
| 1996 | The Daytrippers | Greg Mottola |
| 1997 | Sunday | Jonathan Nossiter |
| 1998 | Next Stop Wonderland | Brad Anderson |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze |
| 2000 | Girlfight | Karyn Kusama |
| 2001 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell |
| 2002 | Raising Victor Vargas | Peter Sollett |
| 2003 | What Alice Found | A. Dean Bell |
| 2004 | Maria Full of Grace | Joshua Marston |
| 2005 | Crash | Paul Haggis |
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris |
| 2007 | The Dead Girl | Karen Moncrieff |
| 2008 | The Visitor | Tom McCarthy |
| 2009 | The Messenger | Oren Moverman |
| 2010 | Mother and Child | Rodrigo García |
| 2011 | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin |
| 2013 | Night Moves | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2014 | Whiplash | Damien Chazelle |
| 2015 | 99 Homes | Ramin Bahrani |
| 2016 | Little Men | Ira Sachs |
| 2017 | The Rider | Chloé Zhao |
| 2018 | Thunder Road | Jim Cummings |
| 2019 | Bull | Annie Silverstein |
| 2020 | The Nest | Sean Durkin |
| 2021[4] | Down With the King | Diego Ongaro |
| 2022 | Aftersun | Charlotte Wells |
| 2023 | LaRoy, Texas | Shane Atkinson |
The award was called Prix du jury spécial Deauville (Special Deauville Jury Award) from 1995 through 1997 and Prix spécial du jury du cinéma indépendant américain (Special Jury Award of American Independent Film) in 1998 and 1999.
The winner of the Deauville Audience Award is chosen by the festival attendees.
The International Critics' prize is an award presented at the festival.
The Prix d'Ornano-Valenti (previously "Prix Michel d'Ornano") is awarded annually to a debut French film. It carries a grant of 3,000 euros for the awarded director-writer, 3,000 euros for the film's producer, and 10,000 euros for the French distributor to help promote the film. The award, which is named in honour of the former Mayor of Deauville and co-founder of the festival, Michel d'Ornano, is supported by the Franco-American Cultural Fund.[5]
The Revelation Prize recognises an original work by a promising new filmmaker and is awarded by a Revelation jury composed of up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.[6]
The Screenplay Prize was awarded in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and then discontinued.
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