Cannes 2015- Awards

Another 2 weeks of glamour and media frenzy comes to an end at the French Riviera, oh and there was also a film festival there apparently, tonight the 68th annual Cannes International Film Festival culminates with the announcement of this year’s “Feature Film” prizewinners, including the prestigious ultimate award the Palme d’Or.

The awarding jury this year is presided over by writer/directors The “Coen Brothers” and also features directors Guillermo Del Toro and Xavier Dolan, composer Rokia Traoré and actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Sophie Marceau, Sienna Miller and Rossy De Palma.

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Here are tonight’s award winners at the 68th Cannes Film Festival including the “Un Certain Regard” winners from last night.

 

Competition 2015

Palme d’Or

‘Dheepan’ Directed by Jacques Audiard- France

 

Grand Prix

‘Saul fia’ (Son of Saul) Directed by László Nemes- Hungary

 

Best Director

Hsiao-hsien Hou for ‘Nie yin niang’ (The Assassin)- Taiwan/China

 

Best Screenplay

Michel Franco for ‘Chronic’- Mexico

 

Best Actress Ex-aequo

 Rooney Mara in ‘Carol’- USA/UK & Emmanuelle Bercot in ‘Mon Roi’- France

 

Best Actor

Stéphane Brizé in ‘La loi du marché’ (The Measure of a Man)- France

 

Jury Prize

‘The Lobster’ directed by Yorgos Lanthimos- Greece/UK/Ireland/Netherlands/France

 

 

 

Un Certain Regard 2015

Un Certain Regard Award

‘Hrútar’ (Rams) by Grímur Hákonarson- Iceland

 

Jury Prize

‘Zvizdan’ (The High Sun) by Dalibor Matanić- Croatia/Serbia

 

Best Director

Kiyoshi Kurosawa for ‘Kishibe no tabi’ (Journey to the Shore)- Japan

 

Un Certain Talent Prize

‘Comoara’ (Treasure) by Corneliu Porumboiu- Romania

 

Promising Future Prize

‘Masaan’ (Fly Away Solo) by Neeraj Ghaywan- India

 

Ex aequo

‘Nahid’ by Ida Panahandeh- Iran

 

You can find a full list of all the officially selected films and all other nominees on the official Cannes 2015 site here.

As usual most of the featured films are scheduled for general release later in the year or early next year and many have no current UK or US release dates.

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