Cannes Film Festival winners 2015

Agence France-Presse

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Cannes Film Festival winners 2015
'Dheepan' by French director Jacques Audiard wins the Palme d'Or

CANNES, France – Here are the winners from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, as chosen by a jury led by US director siblings Joel and Ethan Coen: 

Palme d’Or: Dheepan

(French director Jacques Audiard)

A thriller spotlighting the plight of Sri Lankan refugees, including a traumatised former insurgent, as they try to build new lives in France.

Grand Prize: Son of Saul

(Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes)

The 38-year-old Nemes’s first feature, this movie was widely acclaimed for taking audiences into a Nazi concentration camp and showing the Holocaust in a different way.

Jury Prize: The Lobster

(Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos)

Starring a paunchy, deadpan Colin Farrell, The Lobster is a weird but well-received movie about single people who are transformed into animals if they don’t find a mate.

Best actor: Vincent Lindon 

(The Measure of a Man)

Talented, gruff French character actor Lindon scooped the prize for his performance as a laid-off factory worker desperately searching for a job.

 

Best actress: Rooney Mara, Emmanuelle Bercot

(Carol, Mon Roi)

Mara won the award for her part in lesbian love affair Carol in which she co-starred with Cate Blanchett, while France’s Emmanuelle Bercot was also awarded for her performance as a woman looking back on a destructive relationship with a deceitful but charming boyfriend.

 

Best director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

(The Assassin)

A leading figure in Taiwan’s “New Wave” cinema, Hou won for his slow-burning minimalist drama set in ninth-century China featuring Asian megastar Shu Qi as a female assassin who, after failing in one mission, is sent back to her home province to kill its governor, who is also the man she loves.

 

Best screenplay: Chronic

(Michel Franco)

Mexican writer-director Franco won for his bleak film about an end-of-life nurse played by Tim Roth who grows too close to some of his patients and faces difficult moral choices about assisted suicide. –Rappler.com

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