this from
http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/san-sebastian-film-festival-awards-2007-winners/
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Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the Golden Shell for Best Film at this year's edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival. Written by Yiyun Li from her own short story, Wang's film depicts the difficult relationship between a Beijing widower and his recently divorced daughter living in the US. As the widower, American performer Henry O, 79, was given the Silver Shell for Best Actor. "It was a small film that needed a lot of time to be done because I think films need to breathe, like us," Wang, 58, remarked. "Not every story has to have Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie." The jury was presided by author and director Paul Auster, with whom Wang had previously worked on the meandering 1995 dramatic comedy Smoke and its sequel, Blue in the Face. The duo reportedly had a falling out a few years later while working on another project.
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Jigsaw Lounge comments :

Fall-out or no fall-out, Auster's previous connections to Wang surely should have ruled him out of sitting on the jury, let alone being its president. This isn't to impugn Auster's impartiality in any way, of course, but the author/director himself should have had the sense to withdraw as soon as he saw that Wang's movie was among the competition candidates.