Archive for the ‘Cannes’ Category

Palm d’Or:  Titane, directed by Julia Ducournau

Best Director: Leos Carax for Annette starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver

Best Actor: Caleb Landry Jones – Nitram

Best Actress: Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World

Best Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe – Drive my Car

Palm d’Or:  Parasite directed by Bong Joon-Ho

Best Director:  Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes for Young Ahmed

Best Actor:   Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory

Best Actress:  Emily Beecham – Little Joe

Best Screenplay:   Celine Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Palm d’Or:  Shoplifters directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Best Director:  Paweł Pawlikowski for Cold War

Best Actor:   Marcello Fonte for Dogman

Best Actress:  Samal Yeslyamova for Ayka

Best Screenplay:   Jafar Panahi and Nader Saeivar for 3 Faces &   Alice Rohrwacher for Happy as Lazzaro

2017 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or: – The Square directed by Ruben Ostlund

Best Director:  Sofia Coppola – The Beguiled starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning

(No film poster available for You Were Never Really Here)

Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here

Best Actress:  Diane Kruger –  In the Fade

Best Screenplay:  prize shared between  Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of a Sacred Deer

(The Killing of a Sacred Deer stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell)

&  Lynne Ramsay for You Were Never Really Here

(You Were Never Really Here also stars Alessandro Nivola, John Doman and Ekaterina Samsonov)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Cannes_Film_Festival

2016 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or:  I, Daniel Blake  directed by Ken Loach

Best Director: shared between :

Cristian Mungiu for Graduation

and

Olivier Assayas for Personal Shopper starring Kristen Stewart

Best Actor:  Shahab Hosseini for The Salesman

Best Actress:  Jaclyn Jose for Ma’ Rosa

Best Screenplay:  Asghar Farhadi for The Salesman

Queer Palm Award: The Lives of Thérèse directed by Sébastien Lifshitz (documentary)

2015 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palme d’Or– Dheepan directed by Jacques Audiard

Best Director – Hou Hsiao-Hsien for The Assassin

Best Actor: Vincent Lindon – The Measure of Man

Best Actress: shared between

Rooney Mara – Carol

Emmanuelle Bercot for Mon roi

Best Screenplay – Michel Franco for Chronic starring Tim Roth and David Dastmalchian

Queer Palm Award: Carol directed by Todd Haynes starring Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler

Source: 2015 Cannes Film Festival

2014 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or: Winter Sleep directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Best Director: Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher starring Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller and Vanessa Redgrave

Best Actor: Timothy Spall for Mr Turner

Best Actress: Julianne Moore for Maps to the Stars

Best Screenplay: Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for Leviathan (film poster not yet released)

Source –

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival

http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.html

2013 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or – Blue is the Warmest Colour directed by Abdellatif Kechiche starring  Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux

Best Director – Amat Escalante for Heli (Mexico)

Best Actor – Bruce Dern for Nebraska

Best Actress – Bérénice Bejo for The Past

Best Screenplay – Jia Zhangke for A Touch of Sin

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Cannes_Film_Festival

2012 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or: – Amour directed by Michael Haneke

Best Director: Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux

Best Actor: Mads Mikkelsen for The Hunt

Best Actress: Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan for Beyond the Hills

Best Screenplay: Beyond the Hills written and directed by Cristian Mungiu

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Cannes_Film_Festival

2011 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or – The Tree of Life directed by Terence Malick

Best Director – Nicholas Winding Refn – Drive

Best Actor – Jean Dujardin – The Artist

Best Actress – Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia

Best Screenplay Award – Footnote written and directed by Joseph Cedar

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Cannes_Film_Festival