Yi Yi: A One and A Two - Awards and Accolades

Awards and Accolades

Following its debut at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, Yi Yi has collected a host of awards from prestigious international film festivals. Yi Yi garnered its director, Edward Yang the Best Director at Cannes in 2000 and was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the same year. Yi Yi won the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's Netpac Award, the Vancouver International Film Festival's Chief Dan George Humanitarian Award and tied with Topsy-Turvy to win the 2000 Sarajevo Film Festival's Panorama Jury Award. The film also won Best Foreign Film from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics in 2001, the Grand Prix at the Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland in 2001, The Best Foreign Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards in 2000, Best Film from the National Society of Film Critics in 2001, and Best Foreign Language Film from the New York Film Critics Circle Awards in 2000. The film was also nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. It was also named one of the best movies of 2001 by many prominent publications and intellectuals, including the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today the Village Voice, Film Comment, the Chicago Reader, and the author Susan Sontag, among others.

In 2002, the film was selected by the British film magazine Sight and Sound as one of the ten greatest films of the past twenty-five years, along with Apocalypse Now; Raging Bull; Fanny and Alexander; Goodfellas; Blue Velvet; Do the Right Thing; Blade Runner; Chungking Express; Distant Voices, Still Lives; and Once Upon a Time in America. (There was a tie.)

It is also ranked as the third-most critically acclaimed film of the 21st century by the Web site They Shoot Pictures Don't They?.