page_title: 2006 Cannes Film Festival
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 Cannes Film Festival / Awards
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Ken Loach at the Cannes film festival.
context_page_description: The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or. The President of the Official selection Jury was Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese director to preside over the jury.
  English director Ken Loach won the Palme d'Or with his movie The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Other winners were Pedro Almodóvar and Alejandro González Iñárritu. This also marked the first time in three years that no American film, actor, actress, or filmmaker won any awards in Cannes.
  The festival opened with the premiere screening of The Da Vinci Code, based on the novel by Dan Brown. Transylvania by Tony Gatlif closed the festival. Paris, je t'aime opened the Un Certain Regard section of the festival.
caption: Ken Loach, winner of the Palme d'Or at the event.
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