The 60th Cannes Film Festival ended on Sunday with a red-carpet award ceremony, awarding the following filmmakers and films…
PALME D’OR
“4 Months, 3 weeks and 2 days”
Directed by Romanian Cristian Mungiu
GRAND PRIX (Runner-up prize)
“The Mourning Forest”
Directed by Japan’s Naomi Kawase
SPECIAL PRIZE (to mark 60th Cannes Film Festival)Gus Van Sant
U.S. director of “Paranoid Park”
BEST DIRECTORJulian Schnabel
U.S. director of French-language film “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
BEST ACTOR
Konstantin Lavronenko (in Russian film “The Banishment”, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev)
BEST ACTRESS
Jeon Do-yeon (for South Korean competition entry “Secret Sunshine”)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Fatih Akin
German-Turkish director of “The Edge of Heaven”
CAMERA D’OR (Golden Camera for first film)
“Jellyfish”
Israeli production directed by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen