Archive for the ‘Cannes’ Category

2010 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Best Director: Mathieu Amalric for On Tour

Best Actor: ·  Javier Bardem for Biutiful &

 Elio Germano for Our Life (La Nostra Vita)

Best Actress: Juliette Binoche for Certified Copy

Best Original Screenplay: Poetry  written and directed by Lee Chang-dong

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Cannes_Film_Festival

2009 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival were as follows:-

Palm d’Or – The White Ribbon Das weiße Band directed by Michael Haneke

Best Director – Brillante Mendoza – for Kinatay

Best Actor – Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress – Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist

Best Screenplay – Mei Feng for Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng (Spring Fever) directed by Lou Ye

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Cannes_Film_Festival

2008 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival were as follows:-

Palm d’Or: The Class (Entre les murs) directed by Laurent Cantet

Best Director:  Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Three Monkeys (Üç Maymun)

Best Actor: Benicio del Toro for Che

Best Actress: Sandra Corveloni in Linha de Passe

Best Screenplay: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne for Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Cannes_Film_Festival

2007 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or – Cristian Mungiu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Best Director – Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Actor:  Konstantin Lavronenko – The Banishment

Best Actress: Jeon Do-yeon in Secret Sunshine

Best Screenplay: Fatih Akın for Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Cannes_Film_Festival

2006 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or: The Wind that Shakes the Barley directed by Ken Loach

Best Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu director of Babel

Best Actor:  The cast  of Indigènes  (Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem) – Days of Glory

Best Actress: Penélope Cruz for Volver

Best Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar for Volver

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Cannes_Film_Festival

2005 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival are as follows –

Palm d’Or – Les Enfants (The Children) directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Best Director: Michael Haneke for Cache (Hidden)

Best Actor: Tommy Lee Jones – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Best Actress: Hanna Laslo in Free Zone

Best Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cannes_Film_Festival

2004 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival were as follows: –

Palm d’Or – Fahrenheit 9/11 directed by Michael Moore

Best Director: – Tony Gatlif for Exils

Best Actor: – Yûya Yagira in Nobody Knows

Best Actress: – Maggie Cheung in Clean

Best Screenplay Award: Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri for Look at Me

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Cannes_Film_Festival

2003 Cannes Film Festival  Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival were as follows:

Palm d’Or: Elephant directed by Gus Van Sant

Best Director: Gus Van Sant for Elephant

Best Actor: Muzaffer Özdemir and Emin Toprak for Uzak (Distant)

Best Actress: Marie-Josée Croze for Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)

Best Screenplay: Denys Arcand for Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Cannes_Film_Festival

2002 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival were as follows:

Palm d’Or – The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski

Best Directors: Im Kwon-taek for Chi-hwa-seon (Painted Fire) &

Paul Thomas Anderson for Punch-Drunk Love

Best Actor: Olivier Gourmet for Le Fils (The Son)

Best Actress: Kati Outinen for Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man Without a Past)

Best Screenplay: Sweet Sixteen by Paul Laverty

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Cannes_Film_Festival

2001 Cannes Film Festival Winners

Winners of the five main prizes at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival were as follows:

Palm d’Or: La stanza del figlio (The Son’s Room) directed by Nanni Moretti

Best Director: David Lynch – Mulholland Drive

& Joel Coen  – The Man Who Wasn’t There

Best Actor: Benoît Magimel for La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher)

Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert for La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher)

Best Screenplay: No Man’s Land by Danis Tanović

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Cannes_Film_Festival