The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival , and was influential in revolutionizing the independent film movement in the early 1990s . In 2006 , '' Sex , Lies , and Videotape '' was added to the United States Library of Congress ' National Film Registry as being deemed " culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant "
1989 Cannes Film Festival
1989 Cannes Film Festival
Sex, Lies, and Videotape