History

1998 • 24th edition

From 4th to 13th Sep­tem­ber 1998.
For its Open­ing, the Fes­ti­val cel­e­brat­ed the cen­te­nary of the birth of George Gersh­win. The new Short Film com­pe­ti­tion sec­tion was launched but had to be closed down in 2004… due to a lack of com­peti­tors! By way of anec­dote, Michael Dou­glas, to whom the Fes­ti­val was pay­ing trib­ute, met the woman who was to become his wife, Cather­ine Zeta-Jones, in Deauville, where she was pro­mot­ing Mar­tin Camp­bell’s The Mask of Zor­ro. Steven Spiel­berg also came, with his fam­i­ly, to present Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan, of which two sequences had been shot, dur­ing the pre­vi­ous year’s Fes­ti­val, at the near­by Amer­i­can Ceme­tery at Colleville-sur-Mer.

Affiche de la 24e édition du Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville

Jury

Jean-Paul Rap­pe­neau (Pres­i­dent), Rus­sell Banks, Mau­rice Bernart, Alessan­dro Gassman, Michèle
Hal­ber­stadt, San­drine Kiber­lain, Vir­ginie Ledoyen, Ewan McGre­gor, Liam Nee­son, Éric Ser­ra, Christian
Vincent

Palmarès

Grand Prize
NEXT STOP WONDERLAND Brad Anderson
Jury Prize
HIGH ART Lisa Cholodenko

Gallery

  • Anna Thomson et Amos Kollek , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
    Anna Thomson et Amos Kollek , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
  • Ewan McGregor et Liam Neeson , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
    Ewan McGregor et Liam Neeson , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
  • Kate Capshaw et Steven Spielberg , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
    Kate Capshaw et Steven Spielberg , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
  • Michael Douglas , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
    Michael Douglas , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
  • Peter Weir et Laura Linney , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
    Peter Weir et Laura Linney , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
  • Rita Wilson , Tom Hanks , Kate Capshaw et Steven Spielberg , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
    Rita Wilson , Tom Hanks , Kate Capshaw et Steven Spielberg , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
  • Sean Smith , Rob Morrow , Anthony Strack , Jake Weber , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
    Sean Smith , Rob Morrow , Anthony Strack , Jake Weber , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
  • Viggo Mortensen , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
    Viggo Mortensen , ©Mario Gurrieri , DR
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