Fantastic'Arts is an international festival of horror and science fiction films (fantastique does not translate smoothly into English) which has been held each year since 1994 in Gérardmer in the Vosges, France towards the end of January. It replaced an earlier film festival which was held in Avoriaz.

Originally, it was called "Fantastica" before being given its current name to stress the artistic as well as the fantastique side of the festival. Each year, several celebrities form a jury to judge the competing films as well as present their own work, including the writer Bernard Werber, who comes each year to Place du Tilleul at the centre of the town.

Contents 1 Grand Prize 2 Special Prize 3 Public Prize 4 Fantastic Novel Prize 5 External links

[edit] Grand Prize

Year	Title of film	Director	Nationality
1994	Jiang-Hu, Between Love And Glory	Ronny Yu	Hong Kong
1995	Heavenly Creatures	Peter Jackson	New Zealand
1996	El Dia de la Bestia	Alex de la Iglesia	Spain
1997	Scream	Wes Craven	United States
1998	An American Werewolf in Paris	Anthony Waller	United States, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France
1999	Cube	Vincenzo Natali	Canada
2000	Stir of Echoes	David Koepp	United States
2001	Thomas est amoureux	Pierre-Paul Renders	Belgium, France
2002	Fausto 5.0	Isidro Ortiz, Alex Ollé et Carlos Padrissa	Spain
2003	Honogurai mizu no soko kara	Hideo Nakata	Japan
2004	Janghwa, Hongryeon	Kim Jee-Woon	South Korea
2005	Trouble	Harry Cleven	Belgium
2006	Isolation	Billy O'Brien	Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
2007	Norway of Life (Den brysomme mannen)	Jens Lien	Norway

[edit] Special Prize

Year	Title	Director	Nationality
1994	La ardilla roja	Julio Medem
1995	Dellamorte Dellamore	Michele Soavi	Italy, France
1996	Mute Witness	Anthony Waller
1997	Nur über meine Leiche	Rainer Matsutani	Germany
1998	Gattaca	Andrew Niccol	United States
1998	Photographing Fairies	Nick Willing	United Kingdom
1999	The Wisdom of Crocodiles	Po-Chih Leong	United Kingdom
1999	Bride Of Chucky	Ronny Yu	United States
2000	Los sin nombre	Jaume Balagueró	Spain
2001	Chasing Sleep	Michael Walker	United States
2002	El Espinazo del Diablo	Guillermo Del Toro	Spain
2003	Maléfique	Éric Valette	France
2003	The Gathering	Brian Gilbert	United Kingdom
2004	The Happiness of the Katakuris	Takashi Miike	Japan
2005	Saw	James Wan	United States
2005	The Ordeal (Calvaire)	Fabrice Du Welz	Belgium
2006	Fragile	Jaume Balagueró	Spain
2007	Black Sheep	Jonathan King	New Zealand
2007	Fido	Andrew Currie	Canada
2008	REC	Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza	Spain

[edit] Public Prize

• 2006 : Fragile, Jaume Balagueró (Spain)
• 2007 : Black Sheep, Jonathan King (New Zealand)

[edit] Fantastic Novel Prize

• Le Templier, François Angelier, 2001
• Le 5^e règne, Maxime Chattam, 2003

[edit] External links

• Official site (French)