While most film directors struggle — and fail — to create screen magic, Laurent Firode succeeds beautifully with his romantic-existential comedy Le Battement d'ailes du papillon / Happenstance. The key is Firode's lighter-than-air touch. Even Ernst Lubitsch would have been impressed. Audrey Tautou, however, looks somewhat puzzled. She has been having problems with her roommate, she has been fired from her job, she has broken her nose. Where will fate take her next?
FILM
Le Battement d'ailes du papillon / Happenstance
Le Goût des autres / The Taste of Others
Nueve reinas / Nine Queens
Segunda piel / Second Skin
Traffic
Wo hu cang long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
DIRECTOR
Laurent Firode (Le Battement d'ailes du papillon / Happenstance)
Fabián Bielinsky (Nueve reinas / Nine Queens)
Agnès Jaoui (Le Goût des autres / The Taste of Others)
Ang Lee (Wo hu cang long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
Gerardo Vera (Segunda piel / Second Skin)
ACTOR
Jean-Pierre Bacri (Le Goût des autres / The Taste of Others)
Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot)
Ricardo Darín (Nueve reinas / Nine Queens)
Benicio Del Toro (Traffic)
Michael Douglas (Traffic)
Tom Hanks (Cast Away)
Jordi Mollà (Segunda piel / Second Skin)
Gastón Pauls (Nueve reinas / Nine Queens)
Fernando Ramallo (Krámpack / Nico and Dani)
Jordi Vilches (Krámpack / Nico and Dani)
ACTRESS
Joan Allen (The Contender)
Anne Alvaro (Le Goût des autres / The Taste of Others)
Ariadna Gil (Segunda piel / Second Skin)
Tracey Ullman (Small Time Crooks)
Ziyi Zhang (Wo hu cang long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Caine (Quills)
Ignasi Abadal (Nueve reinas / Nine Queens)
Jeff Bridges (The Contender)
Alain Chabat (Le Goût des autres / The Taste of Others)
Don Cheadle (Traffic)
James Fox (Up at the Villa)
Csongor Kassai (Musíme si pomáhat / Divided We Fall)
Hugh O'Conor (Chocolat)
Saïd Serrari (Le Battement d'ailes du papillon / Happenstance)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Michelle Yeoh (Wo hu cang long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Anne Bancroft (Up at the Villa)
Leticia Brédice (Nueve reinas / Nine Queens)
Erika Christensen (Traffic)
Mariel Hemingway (The Contender)
Jean Heywood (Billy Elliot)
Amy Irving (Traffic)
Marieta Orozco (Krámpack / Nico and Dani)
Audrey Tautou (Le Battement d'ailes du papillon / Happenstance)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Traffic)
SCREENPLAY
Laurent Firode (Le Battement d'ailes du papillon / Happenstance)
Tomás Aragay & Cesc Gay (Krámpack / Nico and Dani)
Jean-Pierre Bacri & Agnès Jaoui (Le Goût des autres / The Taste of Others)
Fabián Bielinsky (Nueve reinas / Nine Queens)
Stephen Gaghan (Traffic)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Rogier Stoffers (Quills)
Laurent Dailland (Le Goût des autres / The Taste of Others)
Jean-René Duveau (Le Battement d'ailes du papillon / Happenstance)
Zhao Fei (Small Time Crooks)
John Mathieson (Gladiator)
Roger Pratt (Chocolat)
Dante Spinotti (Wonder Boys)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Cliff Martinez (Traffic)
Peter Chase (Le Battement d'ailes du papillon / Happenstance)
Tan Dun (Wo hu cang long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Jean-Charles Jarrel (Le Goût des autres / The Taste of Others)
Kai-Li Peng (Yi Yi / Yi Yi: A One and a Two…)
Alan Silvestri (Cast Away)
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