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Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival

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    Best Documentary

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      Winner

      Synthetic Pleasures

      7.0 (143)
      Iara Lee

    Best Film

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      Winner

      Shine

      7.6 (58K)
      Scott Hicks

    Best Foreign Film

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      Guantanamera

      6.9 (1.6K)
      Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
      Juan Carlos Tabío

    Best Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave

      8.1 (47K)
      Nick Park
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      Genre

      7.3 (1.7K)
      Don Hertzfeldt

    President Award

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    Best Actor

    • Noah Taylor at an event for Max (2002)
      Winner
      • Noah Taylor
      • Shine

    Best Actress

    • Emily Watson
      Winner
      • Emily Watson
      • Breaking the Waves

    Best Cinematography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Whole Wide World

      7.0 (4.3K)
      Claudio Rocha

    Best Director

    • Lars von Trier in Melancholia (2011)
      Winner
      • Lars von Trier
      • Breaking the Waves

    Best First Feature - Actor

    • Winner
      • Laureano Olivarez
      • Sicario

    Best First Feature - Actress

    • Winner
      • Cheryl Clifford
      • Talk to Me

    Best First Feature - Directing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sex & the Other Man

      4.6 (603)
      Karl Slovin

    Best Foreign Language Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sicario

      6.3 (523)
      Joseph Novoa

    Best Production in a Foreign Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Passage to Paradise

      5.9 (87)
      Massimo Cristaldi

    Best Score

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Passage to Paradise

      5.9 (87)
      Pat Metheny

    Best Script

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      Beautiful Thing

      7.6 (27K)
      Jonathan Harvey

    Best Writer - First Feature

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      Talk to Me

      7.8 (45)
      George Esguerra
      Robert Foulkes

    Golden Palm

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sex & the Other Man

      4.6 (603)
      Karl Slovin

    Silver Wave Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Three Lives and Only One Death

      6.8 (1.6K)
      Marcello Mastroianni

    Distinguished Award of Merit

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

      8.6 (19K)

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    Event date

    November 6, 1996 - November 24, 1996

    Event location

    Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

    Event links

    • http://www.fliff.com/

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