Don't Miss the Many Categories Recognized at the Cannes Film Festival Prizes Awarded at the Cannes Film Festival written by: Aunindita•edited by: Rhonda Callow •updated: 3/20/2015 If you are looking for traditional prizes awarded at the Cannes Film Festival then you will definitely be disappointed. The prizes given at the film festival are quite distinct. Check out the list of the top 14 awards here. slide 1 of 14 A prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival is a prize like no other. The Cannes Film Festival is considered as of the most prestigious award festivals among the whole film industry. Started in 1946, this festival is organized every year in Cannes at the Resort town. There are several distinct prizes given out in the Cannes Film Festival. Unlike other prestigious film awards, this private festival has some very unique categories which they base their awards from and this makes them listed among the top film festivals . slide 2 of 14 Palme d’Or The most coveted prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival is the Palme d’Or or the Golden Palm.

This award is the equivalent of the best picture in other film awards and was first awarded in 1955. This high honors is given to the best film in the entire Cannes Film Festival. slide 3 of 14 Grand Prix The Grand Prix prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival is considered to be the second best award of the event and is given to one of the competing feature films. The film is selected by a bench of jury members. slide 4 of 14 Jury Prize The Prix du Jury or the Jury Prize is awarded for the Official Section of the event. The Official Section is organized into several sections as well. It is also considered the main award of the festival. The Competition includes 20 films selected by the jury of the festival that competes for the well-known award Palme d’Or. The Un Certain Regard contains a bunch of films representing different cultures that are considered original. Out of the competition, however, are films shown in the festival that are not part of the main event’s competition.

slide 5 of 14 Short Film Award Palme d’Or du Court metrage or Short Film Palme d’Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival for the short films shown during the festival. This is equivalent to the Palme d’Or for short films. If there is more than one short film which should be awarded, the festival presents a jury prize or special mention in this section as well and thus considered the best film festival for respecting talent. slide 6 of 14 Best Actress Award Unlike other award festivals, the Best Actress Award is not presented to a group of actresses that are part of the top movies of the year. The Best Actress Award is a prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival that is given to an actress in a film under the Official Section of the film festival. You can expect to have the award given to actresses that are not widely known to all. Since the Cannes Film Festival focuses more on the quality, storyline, production and the technical side of a film, you can find small film companies from different parts of the world invited. The award was first presented in 1946.

slide 7 of 14 Prize Un Certain Regard Prize Un Certain Regard is a prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival for films in the Un Certain category of the Official Section. This award was founded to recognize young film makers. Unlike the other awards given in the festival, a grant is given together with the award to help the distribution of the winning film. The prize money for this award is 30,000 Euro. slide 8 of 14 Best Actor Award The best actor award was first awarded to Ray Milland in 1946. The award is presented to best male actor among the films shown in the festival. The French name of the award is Prix d'interprétation masculine. slide 9 of 14 Best Director Award Among the films showcased in the festival, the jury chooses a best director who is presented with the award. The award was first presented in the year 1946. It is also known as Prix de la mise en scène. slide 10 of 14 Best Screenplay Award With the French name Prix du scénario, the award is presented to the best screen play writer of the films shown in the festival.

It is another award chosen in the official section by the jury members for screenplay writing . slide 11 of 14 Cinéfondation This award is basically a program to facilitate the film students and to introduce them to the world cinema. The program and award was started in 1998 with the aim to encourage young film makers. This program and section receives more than 1000 films from various film students from all over the world. The program is divided in three sections: Atelier, Residence and Selection. slide 12 of 14 Golden Camera The award was first presented to Robert M. Young in 1978. It is presented to a debut film maker, who made his/her first film. The best film is chosen by special jury and is presented on the closing day of the festival. The French name of the award is Caméra d'Or. slide 13 of 14 Vulcain Prize of the Technical Artist This award was introduced in 2003 to encourage and reward technicians involved in the film making. It is also known as Prix Vulcain de l’Artiste Technicien, and is basically an independent film award.

slide 14 of 14 International Critic's Week This special week was created to facilitate and award film makers who make parallel cinema and experimental films . The critics award is for those who are new to film making and made their first or second film. Also known as La Semaine Internationale de la Critique, the winner is chosen among the only top seven feature film and short films. ◄ ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ► Top prizes awarded at Cannes Film Festival | Minnesota Public Radio News Top prizes awarded at Cannes Film Festival Mads Mikkelsen AP Photo/Francois Mori By THOMAS ADAMSON and JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press CANNES, France (AP) -- The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, "Amour." The Austrian director's powerful and understated film stars two French acting icons -- 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva and 81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant -- as an elderly couple coping with the wife's worsening health.

Haneke said he made the film because "I experienced something in my family that touched me." Some viewers were surprised by the humanity of the film, coming from a master of tightly controlled cinema whose movies often contain sudden bursts of violence. The director said his reputation for delivering shocks was unjust. "Journalists always try to stick a label on directors," he said. "For a long time I've been the expert in violence." But he said the style of a film should suit its subject, and "this film is about love." Haneke has brought 10 films to Cannes over the years, including "Funny Games" and "Hidden." He previously won the Palme in 2009 for "The White Ribbon," and is the seventh director to take the top prize twice. The festival jury awarded the second-place Grand Prize to Matteo Garrone's Italian satire "Reality," while Ken Loach's whiskey-tasting comedy "The Angels' Share" won the third-place Jury Prize.

Both have won Cannes prizes before -- Garrone took the Grand Prize for "Gomorrah" in 2008 and Loach won the Palme d'Or in 2006 for "The Wind That Shakes the Barley." Mexico's Carlos Reygadas was named best director for his surrealism-tinged family story "Post Tenebras Lux." The best actor prize went to Mads Mikkelsen as a man ostracized by his small-town community when he is accused of child abuse in "The Hunt." Jury member Ewan McGregor said Mikkelsen had given a beautiful performance whose "wonder is in the subtlety ... but with complete conviction with his character." Best actress was won jointly by Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan, as friends separated by faith in Romanian movie "Beyond the Hills." Cristian Mungiu's drama of love and faith in a remote Romanian monastery also won the award for best screenplay. The prize winners were chosen from among 22 contenders by a jury, led by Italian director Nanni Moretti, that included actors Ewan McGregor and Diane Kruger, director Alexander Payne and fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Moretti revealed that none of the winners had been a unanimous choice, with several films sharply dividing the jury. He said the biggest fights had been over Leos Carax's bizarre and episodic "Holy Motors," Ulrich Seidl's sex tourism drama "Paradise: Love" and Reygadas' "Post Tenebras Lux," whose title means "light after the darkness." British director Andrea Arnold, a juror, said it was a film "which dared to fail and be brave about life." The 12-day festival has seen plenty of glamour, with the likes of Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart appearing both on-screen and on the red carpet. But in the movies, weighty themes dominated at an event whose French Riviera froth was subdued by several days of unseasonable rain and cold. Despite a strong American flavor to the festival, U.S. films were shut out apart from Benh Zeitli's "Beasts of the Southern Wild," which won the Camera d'Or for best first film.

The jury overlooked Pitt, who plays a cynical mob enforcer in Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly," and Kidman as a Southern femme fatale in Lee Daniels' "The Paperboy." Payne said it would be wrong to draw any conclusions about the state of a nation's cinema "based on one tiny snapshot." Other much-praised performances at the festival included Marion Cotillard's tragedy-struck killer-whale trainer in "Rust and Bone," newcomer Paul Brannigan's scrappy Glasgow lad in "The Angels' Share" and Denis Lavant as a performer who takes on a host of bizarre personas in "Holy Motors." Associated Press writer Hilary Fox contributed to this report. Gallery Cannes Film Festival 2016 Winners, Including Second Palme D'Or For Ken Loach Cannes Film Festival 2016 Winners, Including Second Palme D'Or For Ken Loach {{article.article.images.featured.caption}} Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Full Bio The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Loading ... Loading ... This story appears in the {{article.article.magazine.pretty_date}} issue of {{article.article.magazine.pubName}}.

Subscribe Director Ken Loach, centre, actor Mel Gibson, left and President of the Jury George Miller react after Roach is awarded the Palme d'or for the film I, Daniel Blake, during the awards ceremony at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) The 2016 Cannes Film Festival has come to a close. When the awards ceremony began, the Cannes jury said they held the longest deliberation process in the 69 years of the festival's history. Director Ken Loach won his second Palme d'Or for his well-received film I, Daniel Blake, which follows an ailing Englishman who fights against the bureaucracy of the healthcare system to stay on welfare. 79-year-old Loach previously won the festival's highest prize in 2006 for The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Only eight other directors have won the Palme d'Or twice, including Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Haneke.

Cannes 2016: Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake wins the Palme d'Or - as it happened | Film | The Guardian Cannes 2016 Cannes 2016: Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake wins the Palme d'Or - as it happened All the awards at the 69th Cannes film festival, as it happens, with Ken Loach’s powerful polemic winning the big prize Updated The Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes film festival. Photograph: Regis Duvignau/Reuters Sunday 22 May 2016 15.50 EDT First published on Sunday 22 May 2016 12.26 EDT 15:50 Cannes Canned Right, I’m off. Make sure you head back later to the film site to see Peter Bradshaw’s full analysis of the winners. If only all awards shows were this gloriously short. The stars of I, Daniel Blake react on Twitter here. The film doesn’t have a UK release date confirmed yet but it’s likely to be pushed around awards time.

Dave Johns (@davejohnscomic) Omg we've won the Palme D'or our film I Daniel Blake ..I'm blow away Hayley Squires (@hayleySsquires) Palme 'dor tears flowing across the sea mate. @SixteenFilms love you all, greatest team in the world!!! 15:28 American Honey and I, Daniel Blake are two British films winning major prizes tonight and here’s the official reply from Ben Roberts, director of the BFI Film Fund: “What a moment for British cinema, and for two important and humane films with so much to say. Bravo to Ken and to Andrea and their collaborators - including the unstoppable Robbie Ryan who shot both films. This is cinema from the heart, and we’re grateful that we have an industry that can support such personal, powerful film-making.” 15:26 George Miller has been asked about the omission of the favourite Toni Erdmann. “There are 21 films in competition. That’s 21 directors and 21 writers. There are many many variables. There are only eight prizes. So there are probably a number of films which might feel like they should have been in the awards.

Even though it was a wonderful experience, it was also incredibly rigorous and vigorous. Nothing was left unsaid.” The jury members. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images The jury have been asked about what the experience of serving has been like: “I think honestly, it was a very fantastic virtue we all had. I want to say bloody but it wasn’t bloody. It was passionate” - Mads Mikkelsen “It was passion fuelled by exquisite consideration for everyone in the room. It was very beautiful. It was an association of people that you want to see again and again for the rest of your life. It was filled with love” - Donald Sutherland Updated 15:20 Last year Son of Saul won the Grand Prix and the film’s director László Nemes served on the jury this time around. He was asked why he chose Xavier Dolan’s critically attacked film It’s Only the End of the World to win this year’s Grand Prix. “I was very thrilled to see this film,” he said. “I was very moved by it and it was a great experience.

We all felt that it was a very moving journey and it had tremendous ambitious and there were many risks taken” Cannes Film Festival: Lesbian drama wins Palme d'Or - BBC News BBC News Cannes Film Festival: Lesbian drama wins Palme d'Or 26 May 2013 From the section Entertainment & Arts comments Close share panel Image caption Director Abdellatif Kechiche accepted the award with actresses Lea Seydoux (left) and Adele Exarchopoulos Blue is the Warmest Colour, an intimate love story about two young French women, has won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival. It has attracted attention for its explicit sex scenes as well as the acclaimed performances of actresses Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux. Hollywood veteran Bruce Dern won best actor for his performance in Nebraska. And French star Berenice Bejo, known for silent film The Artist, won best actress for her role in The Past. The winners were picked from the 20 films in competition and were named at the festival's closing ceremony on Sunday.

Blue is the Warmest Colour is a three-hour coming-of-age movie in which Exarchopoulos plays a 15-year-old who falls in love with an older woman, played by Seydoux. Image caption Berenice Bejo shot to fame in Oscar-winning silent film The Artist Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, it won rave reviews in Cannes, being described as "epic yet intimate" by The Guardian . But it also shocked some critics. Variety magazine said it contained "the most explosively graphic lesbian sex scenes in recent memory". The Hollywood Reporter said the "sprawling drama" would "raise eyebrows" as it crossed the barrier "between performance and the real deal". Some had questioned whether the sex scenes may make it too explicit for the top prize. But director Steven Spielberg, who chaired the jury, told reporters: "I think it will get a lot of play... I think this film carries a very strong message, a very positive message." In an unusual move, Spielberg awarded the prize to the two lead actresses as well as the director.

Image caption Oscar Isaac earned acclaim for his role in the Inside Llewyn Davis Accepting the prize, Abdellatif Kechiche said: "I should like to dedicate this film to the wonderful youth of France whom I met during the long period while making this film. "Those young people taught me a lot about the spirit of freedom and living together." Blue is the Warmest Colour prevented US film-makers the Coen brothers from repeating their Palme d'Or success of 1991, when they won for Barton Fink. Their latest film Inside Llewyn Davis, about the 1960s New York folk scene, won this year's Grand Prix, effectively the runners-up prize. The best actor award marks a return to the critical bosom for Bruce Dern, who is best known for roles in 1970s films including Coming Home, The Cowboys and The Great Gatsby. Now 76, he has won for playing an ageing, alcoholic father on a road trip to collect a lottery prize. The film, titled Nebraska, was directed by Sideways and The Descendants film-maker Alexander Payne.

Image caption Steven Spielberg led the jury, which also included Nicole Kidman Berenice Bejo's best actress prize has proved that her performance in The Artist was not a one-off. Her film The Past is a family drama made by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi as the follow-up to his Oscar-nominated 2011 drama A Separation. Mexico's Amat Escalante, who made brutal drama Heli about the country's drugs war, was something of a surprise choice for best director. China's Jia Zhangke won best screenplay for A Touch of Sin, an examination of rampant corruption in his country. The Jury Prize went to Like Father, Like Son, about two families who discover that their six-year-old boys were switched at birth, directed by Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda. Films that missed out included Behind the Candelabra, in which Michael Douglas plays the legendarily flamboyant entertainer Liberace, and Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty, a sumptuous story about an ageing novelist. Spielberg was joined on the jury by Life of Pi director Ang Lee, actress Nicole Kidman and Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz.

The other judges were We Need To Talk About Kevin film-maker Lynne Ramsay, French actor Daniel Auteuil, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, Japanese director Naomi Kawase and Bollywood star Vidya Balan. Directors: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Year: 1977 The opening shot of the Tavianis’ severe study of patriarchal abuse – think of it as a Sardinian ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’ – sees a man zealously whittling down a long stick to use as a weapon. Later, another such stick is whittled into a handy whip (see above), and later still, a character meets his maker by getting a big bonk on the head by – you guessed it – a big stick. In spinning the autobiographical yarn of and linguist Gavino Ledda, the Tavianis evoke a spare rural setting in which no law or tradition exists to prohibit such violence against that enclosed society's most vulnerable.

This still distinctive film centres on a father unwilling to kowtow to his eldest son’s pleas to get out of the punishing family farming business, and how gradually – through the beautifully constructed natural poetry of his lonesome country annex – he receives educational and spiritual enlightenment and is able to break the chain of suffering. 9 Director: Maurice Pialat Year: 1987 Underrated French auteur Maurice Pialat was booed by the braying hoards of the Croisette when he went to collect the coveted prize for this grim exploration of religious doubt and sexual temptation. Nestling somewhere in between Bresson’s ‘Diary of a Country Priest’, Dreyer’s ‘Ordet’ and ‘The Exorcist’, it stars a mesmerising Sandrine Bonnaire as a boisterous murderess out to test the faith of strayed-from-the-flock priest Gérard Depardieu. Pialat’s spare rendering of the Georges Bernanos novel spreads the theological discourse thick, but keeps us enticed and intrigued as Depardieu’s wavering religious conviction leads him into a series of dark existential corners.

8 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Year: 1974 For Gene Hackman, the early '70s were undoubtedly his salad days as a creative force: He starred in two consecutive Palme d’Or winners during that period, first as a brawling drifter in Jerry Schatzberg’s ‘Scarecrow’ (1973), then as a compulsive and emotionally fragile surveillance boffin (and jazz afficionado!) in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ the following year. With the aid of ace sound designer Walter Murch, Coppola fashioned a paranoid classic which giddily orbits around the verbal inflections of a fuzzed-up sound recording and dramatically hinges on what these words mean to both the victims of the sting and Hackman’s Harry Caul – himself a mess of sexual, religious and political contradictions. 7 Director: Cristian Mungiu Year: 2007 Romania’s first prizewinner bowled festival crowds for six on the first day of the competition back in ’07.

Mungiu’s relentless, seedy Ceaucescu-era thriller about the unseemly business of coordinating a back-street abortion was not only deemed best of the fest by Stephen Frears’s jury, but was also seen as one of the key films (alongside Cristi Puiu’s ‘The Death of Mr Lazarescu’) of the so-called Romanian New Wave. One of the key attributes of this movement is also one of the reasons ‘Four Months…’ excels as cinema, as without ever verbalising the draconian political framework that has spawned this nightmarish situation, Mungiu’s film offers intimate human drama that speaks volumes about the woes of a generation. 6 Director: Shohei Imamura Year: 1983 Japan’s Shohei Imamura shared the Golden Palm with Abbas Kiarostami in 1997 for ‘The Eel’, his hushed study of an ex-con striving to stay on the straight and narrow. But 1983’s ‘The Ballad of Narayama’ is a film whose dark soul feels indebted to his early, anthropologically distanced studies of the carnal appetites of the underclass.

Based on the book ‘Men of Tohoku’ by Shichiro Fukazawa, the film takes place in a muddy nineteenth-century Japanese village and centres on a long-held tradition that once a person reaches the age of 70, they must be hoisted into the mountains and left alone to die. Instead of taking the obvious route of questioning the brutality of this practice, Imamura delivers a heartbreaking investigation of family ties and responsibilities in the face of impending death, albeit one replete with asides of bestiality, rape and ritual slaughter. Yum! 5 Director: Luchino Visconti Year: 1963 It’s perhaps hard to feel any pity for the aristocracy in this age of dire economic inequality. So it’s quite a feat that Visconti’s visually resplendent, three-hour adieu to the nineteenth-century Sicilian nobility still has the ability to make you weep salt tears. Composed with a fastidiousness whose like is rarely seen in contemporary cinema, the main draw here is still Burt Lancaster’s gut-wrenching turn as gentle giant Don Fabrizio Corbera, a man crushed by the fact that he seems to be the only person aware that his noble lineage is doomed to extinction.

While there’s nary a moment that doesn’t contain some kind of spine-tingling element, it’s the dizzying, 45-minute ballroom finale and that amazing climactic shot that will choke you up every time. 4 Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Year: 2010 If you take a look at the previous winners of the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion, it’s clear that they have more of a predilection towards experimental and leftfield fare, having bestowed the award upon directors like Jia Zhang-ke, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Alexander Kluge. Cannes maybe got one up on them in 2010 by propelling Apichatpong Weerasethakul into the world cinema A-list for his enchanting, freeform tale of rebirth in the Thai countryside. Some critics left the film bemused and bewildered, but the overall feeling was that jury chief Tim Burton had done his finest work in years by recognising the quality of a film which contained a scene of a talking catfish engaging in cunnilingus with an aging princess. Also, a rarity for a Palme d'Or winner: a vision of true happiness.

3 Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne Year: 1999 What’s the betting that, in 20 years time, Belgium’s Dardenne brothers will still be producing poetic, small-scale dramas about the daily dilemmas of life’s have-nots? And what’s the betting they’ll still be receiving invites to Cannes, where their previous five films have premiered? But the Dardennes' Cannes dream really kicked off in 1999, when their disarmingly curt tale of a surly, poverty-stricken young girl (Emilie Dequenne) and her attempts to keep herself and her mother alive while retaining a sense of self-worth was given the top prize, beating strong competition from the likes of Pedro Almodóvar (‘All About My Mother’), Bruno Dumont (‘L’Humanite’) and Raúl Ruiz (‘Time Regained’). Comparisons to Robert Bresson’s ‘Mouchette’ feel entirely appropriate, especially its view of life as a prolonged nightmare of suffering that makes those small, occasional moments of respite even sweeter.

2 Director: Carol Reed Year: 1949 Unlike the Olympics and the World Cup, Britain has been pretty decent at winning the top prize in Cannes. In the '60s we had ‘If…’, in the '70s ‘The Go-Between’, in the '80s ‘The Mission, in the '90s ‘Secret and Lies’ and in the '00s there was ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’. But way back before all that, Carol Reed’s masterly dissection of a post-war Europe that was rotten to the core – ‘The Third Man’ – set the awards ball rolling, and it stands as the UK’s greatest Palme d’Or winner. 1 List of Top Ten Palme d'Or Winners at Cannes Film Festival and 2016 Cannes Film Festival Winners Download Home > How to >Palme d'Or Winners at Cannes Film Festival List of Top Ten Palme d'Or Winners at Cannes Film Festival The eagerly-anticipated 69th Cannes Film Festival 2016 finally kicked off in Cannes, France.

With the 2016 winner of the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), the highest price awarded at the Cannes Film Festival, resurfacing on May 22, the search for the previous Cannes' Palme d'Or winners may therefore shot up to a great degree. But since 1955, when the first Golden Palm Award was introduced, there has been more than 60 winners. Instead of experiencing a spiritual marathon on your couch, you are more willing to appreciate the cream of the crop of the Cannes' movies at your spare time. Here is the list of the top 10 Cannes' Palme winners that not only win the Palme d'Or but also stand the test of time ahead of Saturday's presentation of the 2016 Cannes' Palme d'Or. Now Download Cannes Film Festival Winners List 2016, Awards Ceremony Live Show, Higlights etc in One Click Wanna to watch the top best Cannes Film Festival winners 2016 & all time, the red carpet show, awards ceremony live, highlights, videos etc? You may need a downloader like MacX Video Converter Pro ( Windows Version ).

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Free download those Cannes Film Festival 2016 winners list from online sites to see if the movie deserve the Golden Palm Award. Palme d'Or Winner No 2: It's Only The End of the World Directed by Xavier Dolan (2016) It's Only The End of the World , originally named Juste la fin du monde, is a French movie telling a gay playwright returning to his hometown after a 12-year absence to tell his family that he's dying. This Cannes Film Festival winning movie 2016 is directed by Xavier Dolan, who has shown great directing talents in this movie. If you want to see this young filmmaker's aggressively engaging drama, or his earlier great success "Mommy", the Cannes Film Festival winners movie downloader will help. Palme d'Or Winner No 3: Marty Direccted by Delbert Manna (1995) Marty is a 1955 American romantic slice-of-life drama film directed by Delbert Mann, telling a story of a middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love but finally fall in love at a dance.

The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and generated revenues of $3,000,000 in the US alone, making it a box office success. Joyfully, this movie is the only one to win both the Palme d’Or and the Oscar Award for Best Picture. Tips: In case you wanna watch the 2016 Cannes film festival winners list on mobiles where no internet connection is available, try to download them with MacX Video Converter Pro . Palme d'Or Winner No 4: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Directed by Cristian Mungiu (2007) 2007 Romanian film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu is set in Communist Romania in the late '80s. It tells the story of two students, roommates in Bucharest flat, who try to arrange an illegal abortion. This is such a gripping, satisfying film that it is undoubtedly the Palme d'Or Winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

Palme d'Or Winner No 5: The Third Man Directed by Dir Carol Reed (1949) Storyline: Pulp novelist Holly Martins has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime, upon his arrival in the shadowy, postwar Vienna, he finds himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime. Unlike the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup, Britain has been pretty good at winning the most prestigious prize in Cannes Film Festival, in which Carol Reed directed The Third Man has to be mentioned as it stands as the UK’s greatest Palme d’Or winner of all time, celebrated for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and musical score. Palme d'Or Winner No 6: The Lost Weekend Directed by Billy Wilder (1945) The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film, recounting the desperate life of a chronic alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam, over the last half of a six-year period, and in particular on a weekend alcoholic binge.

The Lost Weekend is the only few films (including Marty) ever to win both the Academy Award and the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film replaced by Palme d'Or (Golden Palme) since 1955 as the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival. Palme d'Or Winner No 7: Blue is the Warmest Color Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche (2013) A 2013 French romantic coming of age drama film centering on a 15-year-old girl named Adele whose life is changed when she meet the mysterious, blue-haired girl Emma, helping Adele grow, seek herself, lose herself and ultimately find herself through love and loss. At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the film unanimously won the Palme d'Or from the official jury and the FIPRESCI Prize. It is the first Palme d'Or awarded movie that both the director and the lead actresses have ever won the award.

Palme d'Or Winner No 8: Rosetta Directed by Dirs Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne ( 1999) Rosetta is about a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother. Trying to survive and to escape her situation, she makes numerous attempts towards securing a job allowing her to move away from the caravan and her dysfunctional mother in order to achieve a stable life. The film is unexpectedly and unanimously the Palme d'Or winner at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Palme d'Or Winner No 9: The Conversation Directed by Dir Francis Ford Coppola (1974) The Conversation is a 1974 American psychological thriller film depicting a paranoid, secretive surveillance expert who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. This film stars Gene Hackman, who undoubtedly has his salad days as a creative force in the early 70s.

During the period, he starred in two consecutive Palme d’Or winners, first as a brawling drifter in Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow (1973) and then as a compulsive and emotionally fragile surveillance boffin in the Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation in 1974. Palme d'Or Winner No 10: Fahrenheit 9/11 Directed by Michael Moore (2004) Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and director and political commentator Michael Moore about his view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As one of the best Cannes' Palme d'Or winners, this film is also the highest grossing documentary of all time. Best Palme d'Or Winners Movies Downloader MacX Video Converter Pro can get the best Cannes Film Festival movies, highlights, live show in HD quality from 300+ sites.

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For its 55th anniversary in 2002 the festival decided to screen 12 films from the original selection, seven of which would be "in competition" and be retrospectively judged by a contemporary jury. 1959: The atomic bombs of 1945 are still taboo as a subject. Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour is excluded from the official selection in order not to upset the US government. 1964: The name of the festival's grand prix 'Golden Palm' is abandoned and changed to 'Grand Prix International du Festival'. (It will be called 'Golden Palm' again from 1975.) 1966: The Grand Prix is named 'Grand prix du vingtième anniversaire du Festival international du film' for the festival's 20th anniversary. 1966: A new non-competitive festival section called "Directors' Fortnight" is created. 1973: A new non-competitive and informative festival section called 'Étude et documents' is created.

1973: Another non-competitive festival section called 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' is initiated by the French Film Directors' Society (1973-1991). 1975: The name of the festival's grand prix is again changed to 'Golden Palm' after it had been abandoned in 1964. 1975: A new non-competitive festival section called 'Les Yeux Fertiles' is created, focusing on films dealing with other arts (1975-1977). 1975: A day before the festival opens a bomb is found in the Palais. The 'People's Struggle Against the Perversion of Humanity', is never heard of again. 1976: A new non-competitive festival section called 'L'Air du temps' is created, focusing on films dealing with contemporary subjects (1976-1977). 1977: A new non-competitive festival section called 'Le Passé composé' is created, solely for compilations. It will be celebrated in 1977 only.

1978: A new non-competitive festival section called 'Un Certain Regard' is created replacing the sections 'Les Yeux Fertiles' (1975-1977), 'L'Air du temps' (1976-1977) and 'Le Passé composé' (1977). 1980: The surprise film, Tarkovsky's Stalker , is interrupted due to strikes held by the electricians. 1982: The festival poster is designed by Federico Fellini . 1983: The festival poster is designed by Akira Kurosawa . 1990: The retrospectives are introduced, from 1992 on called 'Cinéma de toujour'. 1992: The retrospectives become an official name: 'Cinéma de toujour'. 1992: The section formerly known as 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' (1973-1991) is renamed to 'Cinémas en France'. 1998: The festival will have a short film jury from now on.

2002: The winning film for the first festival, which actually was canceled in 1939 due to the beginning of World War II, was decided on retrospectively by a jury in 2002. 2004: For the first time in the history of the festival, president Gilles Jacob gave the jury an opportunity to explain their Golden Palm choices. Golden Palm Given: 1955- The winning movie is chosen by a jury from the pool of movies which are part of the festivals 'official selection' (sélection officielle). Grand Prize of the Festival Given: 1946-1947, 1949, 1951-1954 1959: The atomic bombs of 1945 are still taboo as a subject. Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour is excluded from the official selection in order not to upset the US government. The winning movie was chosen by a jury from the pool of movies which were part of the festivals 'official selection' (sélection officielle).

Grand Prize of the Jury The winning movie is chosen by a jury from the pool of movies which are part of the festivals 'official selection' (Sélection officielle). Jury Prize The winning movie is chosen by a jury from the pool of movies which are part of the festivals 'official selection' (Sélection officielle). International Jury Prize Critics Week Grand Prize Given: 2000- The award is given by the press to the best feature film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. Journalists and film critics are invited to vote after each screening. If the winner is a French speaker, an additional grant of EUR 3,000 will be added by the Beaumarchais Foundation. (as of 2005) Mercedes-Benz Award Given: 1993-1999 The award is given to the best feature film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. SACD Screenwriting Award Given: 2004- The award is given to the best screenwriter of a feature film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.

SACD Award Given: 1991-1992 The award is given to the best feature and short film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. ACID Award The award is given by a jury formed of directors, who are members of ACID, in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. Canal+ Award Given: 1992- The award is given to the best short film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. Kodak Short Film Award The award is given to a short film revelation. Kodak Short Film Award - Special Mention Prix Grand Cru Given: 2006- The award is given to the best screenwriter of a short or mid-length film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. Young Critics Award Given: 2000- The award is given to the best feature and short film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.

Grand Golden Rail Given: 1995- The award is given by a group of cinephile railwaymen to the best feature film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. Small Golden Rail Given: 1995- The award is given by a group of cinephile railwaymen to the best short film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. Hohoa Award Given: 2003- The award is given to the best short film script (<20min) from the French overseas territories in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) (as of 2008) Golden Coach Given: 2002- The award is a tribute paid by directors - and only directors - to fellow filmmakers for their courage and intransigence in their art. It is a homage to independence and pure cinematic genius. SACD Prize (Directors' Fortnight) The award is given to a French-language feature film in the Directors Fortnight selection.

Label Europa Cinemas Given: 2003- The award is given to a European film in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the festival to further its distribution. C.I.C.A.E. Award Cinémas de Recherche - Special Mention SFR Prize The award is given to the most audacious French short film from the Director's Fortnight international selection. It is awarded by a jury of professionals and young directors brought together by SFR. SACD Short Film Award Unifrance Short Film Grand Prize Given: 2008- Unifrance Short Film Special Prize Gras Savoye Award Given: 1998-2007 The juried award is given to a producer/director of the best short film from a selection of films not awarded at other international festivals. (as of 2003) Gras Savoye Award - Special Mention Perspectives du Cinéma Award Perspectives du Cinéma Award - Special Mention Young Cinema Award 'La Chance de Cannes' Award Gary Cooper Award Given: 1961, 1963 The award is given in recognition of the human valor of the film's content and treatment.

International Peace Award France Culture Award Given: 1999- The award is given to a domestic and a foreign film to honor the best cineaste of the year, who is not yet known widely. Award of the Youth Given: 1982- A jury of seven young European cineastes (age 18-25) decides on the awards given to a French and a foreign film each, a first, second or third work from the parallel sections of the festival (La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Un Certain Regard, La Semaine de la Critique). From 1982 to 1988 the jury had been built from five young French. Since 2003 the traditional distinction between French and foreign film has been given up and just one film is awarded. Special Award of the Youth Regards Jeunes Prize Prix Regards Jeune Given: 2003- The award is decided on by an European jury of seven young cinephiles and given to a feature film (first or second feature) in each of the two sidebars: the Directors' Fortnight and the International Critics Week.

(2009) The award is given to the best feature and short film in the critics week (La Semaine de la Critique) or Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the festival. (old rule) Cannes Junior Award Best Film for the Youth François Chalais Award The award is given to a documentary or a feature film which best captures life. Norman McLaren Award Given: 2005- The Norman McLaren Prize, created by the National Film Board of Canada under the aegis of the Cannes Film Festival, will be presented each year to the winner of the Short Film Palme d'Or. NFB Online Short Film Competition Given: 2005- Ten finalists are selected, the winner is then decided on by the online audiences. Cinema Prize of the French National Education System Given: 2003- Award of the City of Rome American Pavillon's Emerging Filmmaker Showcase Given: 2009- The award is given to both a male and female acting revelation. (as of 2005) DVD Design Award The DVD awards aim to recompense the artistic work of film companies latest releases.

The award is given for DVD releases with films released after 1 January 1979. DVD Heritage Award The award is given for DVD releases which include restored copies, exclusive notes and material.

Palme d'Or - Best Short Film Birks Canadian Diamond Un Certain Regard - Best Director Critics Week - Special Mention Un Certain Regard - Special Distinction of the Jury France 4 Visionary Award Nikon Discovery Award - Special Mention Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist SACD Prize (Directors' Fortnight) - Special Mention Illy Prize Ken Loach stuns at Cannes 2016 with Palme d'Or win for I, Daniel Blake | Film | The Guardian Cannes 2016 Ken Loach stuns at Cannes 2016 with Palme d'Or win for I, Daniel Blake The 79-year-old Briton has triumphed at the Cannes film festival for the second time with his welfare state drama, as Andrea Arnold’s American Honey takes third prize and dark horses pick up awards across the board Sunday 22 May 2016 14.49 EDT Last modified on Monday 10 October 2016 05.26 EDT Close This article is 7 months old There were shocks and surprises – and even talk of a renegade jury – at the closing ceremony for the 69th Cannes film festival .

Few of the perceived favourites picked up prizes, while some movies derided as turkeys triumphed – and the one-award-per-movie rule also appeared to have been torn up. I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach's welfare state polemic is blunt, dignified and brutally moving Read more Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or – the festival’s highest honour – for I, Daniel Blake , a social-realist drama about a disabled carpenter struggling with the red tape of the benefits system. The director, who turns 80 next month, returned from retirement to make the film, and took to the stage at the Palais to address the audience in French. “The festival is very important for the future of cinema,” he said, instructing all present to “stay strong.” Loach continued by saying it was “very strange” to received the award in such glamorous surroundings, considering the conditions endured by those people who inspired the film. “When there is despair, the people from the far right take advantage,” said Loach. “We must say that another world is possible and necessary.” Jury member Donald Sutherland praised I, Daniel Blake as “an absolutely terrific movie that resonates in your heart and soul,” backstage during a press conference.

Loach has a very loyal following in Europe: many of his films have premiered at Cannes, while The Wind That Shakes the Barley , about two brothers who join the IRA in the early 1920s, won the Palme d’Or in 2006. Yet few foresaw victory for the veteran dramatist on Sunday. The film-maker called his second win “extraordinary” backstage. “Our breath has been taken away,” Loach said. “We weren’t expecting to come back. We are quietly stunned.” Cannes 2016: full list of winners Read more The prize for best director was a tie between Graduation , Cristian Mungiu’s Romanian drama about a doctor’s daughter struggling with her exams and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper , a horror starring Kristen Stewart as a recently-bereaved psychic PA in Paris. The first film was warmly – if soberly – received; the second was greeted with boos at its press screening – although not quite as many as met It’s Only the End of the World , Xavier Dolan’s melodrama about a young man who returns to his family to tell them he’s dying.

That film took the Grand Prix – or runner’s up award – marking the second time Dolan has triumphed, following 2014’s Mommy. In an emotional speech, the 27-year-old French Canadian thanked his producer for “feeling the emotion of the film”. It’s Only the End of the World review: Xavier Dolan's nightmarish homecoming is a dream Read more “Emotion is not always easy to share with others,” he continued. “Violence can sound like a scream. All we do in this world, we do to be loved. Me, especially. To be accepted. The more I grow, the more I direct, the more difficult it is to be understood. I now know who I am.” Jury member László Nemes, the director who last year won the same prize for the Auschwitz-set drama Son of Saul, called Dolan’s film “a very moving journey,” backstage. “It had ambition - and much risk was taken. “When it started, you could feel a very specific voice of director,” he continued. “I’m very happy when I see people try to go in very different and personal ways.

I think that’s the essence of cinema.” Dolan used his time backstage to address his critics. “I’ll always read what people think and say,” he said. “This is how I’ve been building my life - I’ve been wondering what people think. If they see black when I see white, there’s a problem.” Meanwhile British film-maker Andrea Arnold won her third Jury Prize (after Red Road and Fish Tank) for American Honey , a lyrical road-trip across the US. Many had anticipated a more substantial award for the film which, alongside Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, was considered one of the frontrunners. “When I’m happy I want to dance,” said Arnold in a speech in which she thanked her team. Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman – a quiet thriller about an actor wrestling with his desire for vengeance after his wife is assaulted in their flat – took best actor for Shahab Hosseini and best screenplay for the writer/director. “I wasn’t expecting a second award for the film,” said Fahardi on stage. Jaclyn Jose won best actress for her role as an impoverished mother fighting police corruption in Brilliante Mendoza’s Manilla-set crime thriller Ma Rosa . She took expressed shock.

“I am so surprised,” she said on stage. “I just walked the red carpet with my daughter.” Jose thanked the festival before dedicating her award “to the Philippines”. “We found her to be a master of her skills,” said jury member Mads Mikkelsen, backstage, of their decision to award Jose. “It was a beautiful performance for a lead actress. That’s why she got it.” The jury this year was chaired by Mad Max director George Miller , whose Fury Road was one of the breakthrough films of last year’s festival. Cannes 2016: Ken Loach wins Palme d'Or – the Dailies film podcast Read more His fellow jurors included Nemes, as well as actors including Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst and Vanessa Paradis. Speaking at the start of the ceremony, Miller described the previous fortnight as “exhausting, but one of the best experiences of my life”. “We must commend the festival for this feast of cinema,” he said. “We passionately and fiercely debated the films.

Nothing was left unsaid.” Backstage speaking to the press, Miller echoed his sentiments made at the ceremony, calling the experience of leading his jury “rigorous and vigorous.” “Arguably we debated longer than most juries,” he added. “Nothing was left unsaid. And we avoided looking at what other people were saying.” Divines – about a teenage girl in the Paris suburbs, commended as a successor to La Haine – won the Camera d’Or for best debut. Its director, Houda Benyamina, used her time onstage to ebulliently cheerlead for more female directors. “Cannes is ours,” she said. “We are here! It’s possible. The fact that a woman won the prize is a curiosity; things have to change. It’s about time.” Benyamina then paid tribute to her female producer, before crying out “Another woman!” and “Vive directors!” The honorary Palme went to Jean-Pierre Léaud, the veteran French actor best known for his work with François Truffaut.

Léaud, now 71, played the character Antoine Doinel in a series of films by the New Wave icon, starting with 1959’s The 400 Blows. The juror Arnaud Desplechin made emotional tribute in his introduction, which was followed by a prolonged standing ovation. In his speech, Léaud remarked: “Cinema is the only art the captures death at work, like bees we can see dying in a hive.” Despite the unexpected end, the verdict on this year’s festival was that it passed without the cinematic fireworks of some previous editions, with fewer films debuting on the Croisette likely to be loom large in the awards conversation. Yet the relative peace outside the Palais was a triumph, with heightened security and 500 extra policemen apparently fending off any terrorist threat.

Question: What is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: Palme d'Or