This is director Laurent Cantet with a group of Paris junior high school students after The Class won the Palme d’Or award last night at the 61st Cannes film festival.
Here are the winners in full:
IN COMPETITION
- Palme d’Or: The Class (Dir. Laurent Cantet)
- Runner-up (Grand Prix): Gomorra (Dir. Matteo Garrone)
- Best Director (Prix de la Mise en Scene): Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Three Monkeys
- Best Screenplay (Prix du Scenario): Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne for Lorna’s Silence
- Best First Feature (Camera d’Or): Hunger (Dir. Steve McQueen)
- Special Mention: Vse Umrut A Ja Ostanus (Dir. Valeria Gaia Germanica)
- Jury Prize (Prix du Jury): Il Divo (Dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
- Best Actor (Prix d’interpretation masculine): Benicio del Toro for Che
- Best Actress (Prix d’interpretation feminine): Sandra Corveloni for Linha de Passe
- Prix de 61st Festival de Cannes: Catherine Deneuve (Un Conte de Noël) and Clint Eastwood (The Exchange, aka Changeling).
- Short Film (Palme d’Or): Megatron (Dir. Marian Crisan)
- Special Mention: Jerrycan (Dir. Julius Avery).
UN CERTAIN REGARD
- 1st Prize: Tuplan (Dir. Sergey Dvortsevoy)
- 2nd Prize: Cloud 9 (Dir. Andreas Dresen)
- Prize of Hope: Johnny Mad Dog (Dir. Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
- Knockout Prize: Tyson (Dir. James Toback)
- Jury Prize: Tokyo Sonata (Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
CINEFONDATION
- 1st Prize: Anthem (Dir. Elad Keidan)
- 2nd Prize: Forbach (Dir. Claire Burger)
- 3rd Prize: Stop (Dir. Jae-Ok Park) and Roadmarkers (Dir. Juho Kuosmanen)
> Official site of the festival
> Listen to the winners press conference
> Reviews of the festival from BBC News, Reuters, The Guardian and the New York Times
(Photo Credit: EPA/Guillaume Horcajuelo
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