Cannes Prize Winners Announced!

Posted by Todd Brown at 11:35am.

Posted in Film News , Cannes 2008.

The list of Cannes prize winners was released yesterday and at the top of the pile was Laurent Cantat’s Entre les murs with Gomorrah taking the Grand Prix. Also scoring a major nod was Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata - taking the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize - which makes Todd a happy boy. You’ll find the complete list below the break.

PRIZES OF THE 61ST CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

INTL. COMPETITION JURY PRIZES
Palme d’Or
“The Class” (dir. Laurent Cantet, France)
Grand Prix
“Gomorrah” (Matteo Garrone, Italy)
Special Prizes of the 61st Cannes Festival
Catherine Deneuve ("A Christmas Tale") and Clint Eastwood ("Changeling")
Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan ("Three Monkeys,"Turkey-France-Italy)
Jury Prize
“Il Divo” (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)
Actor
Benicio Del Toro ("Che," Spain-France)
Actress
Sandra Corveloni ("Linha de passe,” Brazil-France)
Screenplay
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne ("Lorna’s Silence,” Belgium-France-Italy-Germany)

SHORT FILMS JURY PRIZES
Palme d’Or
“Megatron” (Marian Crisan, Romania)
Special Mention
“Jerrycan” (Julius Avery, Australia)

UN CERTAIN REGARD JURY AWARDS
Main Prize
“Tulpan"(Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany)
Jury Prize
“Tokyo Sonata” (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
Heart Throb Jury Prize
“Cloud 9"(Andreas Dresen, Germany)
The Knockout of Un Certain Regard
“Tyson” (James Toback, U.S.)
The Prize of Hope
“Johnny Mad Dog"(Jean-Stephane Sauvaire, France)

OTHER JURY AWARDS
Camera d’Or
“Hunger” (Steve McQueen, U.K.);
Special Mention
“Everybody Dies But Me"(Valeria Gai Germanika, Russia)
Cinefondation Awards
“Anthem"(Elad Keidan, Israel) - first prize; “Forbach"(Claire Burger, France) - second prize; “Stop” (Park Jae-ok, S. Korea), “Roadmarkers"(Juho Kuosmanen, Finland) - third prize, shared
Fipresci Awards:
“Delta"(Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary-Germany) - Competition; “Hunger"- Un Certain Regard; “Eldorado"(Bouli lanners, Belgium-France) - Directors’ Fortnight
Ecumenical Award
“Adoration"(Atom Egoyan, Canada-France)

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Reader Comments

Simon Abrams 05/26/2008 @ 2:32pm

I TOLD YOU TO SEE “GOMORRAH” and “IL DIVO” (check the original post when Todd announced his departure for Cannes)! I TOLD YOU!

HA!

Damn, I hope this means I get to see them sometime earlier than next year (Crosses my fingers for NYFF).