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2017 Cannes Film Festival

July 6th, 2017 |

Author: davidrwalker

2017 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS

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

(No film poster available for The Square)

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

Posted in Cannes, Ruben Ostlund, Sofia Coppola |

Tags: Alessandro Nivola, Colin Farrell, Diane Kruger, Ekaterina Samsonov, Elle Fanning, Joaquin Phoenix, John Doman, Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman |

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