'' The Sweet Hereafter '' won three awards at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival : the FIPRESCI Prize , the Grand Prize of the Jury , and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury . This was the highest honour won at Cannes for a Canadian film and made Egoyan the first Canadian to win the Grand Prix , followed by Xavier Dolan with '' It 's Only the End of the World '' in 2016
1997 Cannes Film Festival
1997 Cannes Film Festival
The Sweet Hereafter (film)