European Film Festivals


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    1989
    Cannes: sex, lies and videotape, by Steven Soderbergh (US)
    Berlin: Rain Man, by Barry Levinson (US)
    Venice: A City of Sadness, by Hsiao-Hsien Hou (Taiwan)

    Oscar: Driving Miss Daisy, by Bruce Beresford


    1988
    Cannes: Pelle the Conqueror, by Bille August (Denmark)
    Berlin: Red Sorghum, by Zhang Yimou (China)
    Venice: The Legend of the Holy Drinker, by Ermano Olmi (Italy)

    Oscar: Rain Man, by Barry Levinson


    1987
    Cannes: Under the Sun of Satan, by Maurice Pialat (France)
    Berlin: The Theme, by Gleb Panfilov (Soviet Union)
    Venice: Au revoir les enfants, by Louis Malle (France)

    Oscar: The Last Emperor, by Bernardo Bertolucci


    1986
    Cannes: The Mission, by Roland Joffe (UK)
    Berlin: Stammhein, by Reinhard Hauff (West Germany)
    Venice: The Green Ray, by Eric Rohmer (France)

    Oscar: Platoon, by Oliver Stone


    1985
    Cannes: When Father Was Away On Business, by Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia)
    Berlin: Tie - Wetherby, by David Hare (UK)
                    - Die Frau und der Fremde, by Rainer Simon (East Germany)
    Venice: Vagabond, by Agnes Varda (France)

    Oscar: Out of Africa, by Sidney Pollack


    1984
    Cannes: Paris Texas, by Wim Wenders (Germany)
    Berlin: Love Streams, by John Cassavetes (US)
    Venice: The Year of the Quiet Sun, by Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland)

    Oscar: Amadeus, by Milos Forman


    1983
    Cannes: Ballad of Narayama, by Shohei Imamura (Japan)
    Berlin: Tie - Ascendancy, by Edward Bennett (UK)
                    - The Beehiv, by Mario Camus (Spain)
    Venice: First Name: Carmen, by Jean-Luc Godard (France)

    Oscar: Terms of Endearment, by James L. Brooks


    1982
    Cannes: Tie - The Way, by Yilmaz Guney (Turkey)
                      - Missing, by Constantin Costa-Gavras (US)
    Berlin: Veronica Voss, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (West Germany)
    Venice: The State of Things, by Wim Wenders (West Germany)

    Oscar: Gandhi, by Richard Attenborough


    1981
    Cannes: Man of Iron, by Andrzej Wajda (Poland)
    Berlin: Faster Faster, by Carlos Saura (Spain)
    Venice: The German Sisters, by Margarethe von Trotta (West Germany)

    Oscar: Chariots of Fire, by Hugh Hudson


    1980
    Cannes: Tie - All That Jazz, by Bob Fosse (US)
                      - Kagemusha, by Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
    Berlin: Tie - Heartland, by Richard Pierec (US)
                    - Palermo or Wolfsburg, by Werner Schroeter (West Germany)
    Venice: Tie - Gloria, by John Cassavetes (US)
                     - Atlantic City, by Louis Malle (US)

    Oscar: Ordinary People, by Robert Redford