Yun Chi-Hi, actress (South Korea)
Michel Ciment, film critic (France)
Hans W. Geissend�rfer, director (Germany)
Jacques Godbout, writer and director (Canada)
Jack Kroll, film critic (U.S.A.)
David Robinson. film critic (Great Britain)

AWARDS: Feature films:

Grand Prix of the Americas / Best film:
"Georgia" by Ulu Grosbard (France-U.S.A.)

Special Grand Prix of the Jury:
"A Moslem" by Vladimir Khotinenko (Russia)

Best director:
"A Mongolian Tale" by Xie Fei (China)
"Burlesque Tragedy" by Goran Markovic (France-Bulgaria)

Best actress:
Jennifer Jason Leigh in "Georgia" by Ulu Grosbard (U.S.A.)

Best actor:
Fabrizio Bentivoglio in "Un Eroe borghese" by Michele Placido (Italy)

Best screenplay:
" Passover Fever" by Shemi Zarhin (Israel), screenplay by Shemi Zarhin

Best artistic contribution for music:
"A Mongolian Tale" by Xie Fei (China), music by Tengger

Special Grand Prix of the Americas:
Liv Ullmann for her exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art as an actress and as a filmmaker, on the occasion of the presentation of "Kristin Lavransdatter", directed by Liv Ullmann.

AWARDS: Short films:

1st prize:
"The End of the World in Four Seasons" by Paul Driessen (Canada)

2nd prize:
"Clocks" by Kirsten Winter (Germany)

OTHER AWARDS:
Special Grand Prix of the Americas, on the occasion of the centennial of cinema, for their exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art:

to the actor:
G�rard Depardieu
to the directors:
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean-Luc Godard
Carlos Saura
Zhang Yimou
to the Walt Disney creators:
Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.

Air Canada People's Choice Award:
"No te mueras sin decirme a donde vas" (Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going � by Eliseo Subiela (Argentina)

FedEx Award for the best Canadian film:
"L'Enfant d'eau" by Robert M�nard (Canada)

Montreal awards for the best first fiction films:
"Cross my Heart and Hope to Die" (Ti Kniver i hjertet) by Marius Holst (Norway)
"Manneken Pis" by Frank Van Passel (Belgium)

International critics' award (FIPRESCI):
"Like it Never Was Before" (Pensionat Oskar) by Susanne Bier (Sweden) (competition)
"Manneken Pis" by Frank Van Passel (Belgium) (out of competition)

Ecumenical jury award:
"Deep River" by Kei Kumai (Japan)