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Sunday, May 25, 2014

67th Cannes Film Festival Winners, 2014


Official Poster of the 67th Cannes Film Festival, 2014

Director Jane Campion (The Piano) headed the Jury of the 2014, 67th Cannes Film Festival last night in France (May 25th). She revealed the prize winners during the Awards Ceremony. For more about the Jury, etc., see previous post.

Lambert Wilson hosted Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino onto the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his film Winter Sleep


The full list of the Campion nine-member Jury winners:

Palme d’Or (Golden Palm): Winter Sleep, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan of Turkey;

Grand Prize: Le Meraviglie (The Wonders), Alice Rohrwacher;

Best Director: Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher;

Jury Prize: Mommy, by Canadian director Xavier Dolan, sharing the honor with French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language;

The Camera d'or Best Acting Ensemble Prize: Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis;

Best Actress: Julianne Moore for her role in David Chronenberg's,  Maps To The Stars, but she was not present;

Best Actor: Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner;

Prize of Un Certain Regard: Fehér Isten (White God) by Kornél Mundruczó;

Jury Prize: Tourist by Ruben Östlund;

Un Certain Regard Special Prize: The Salt of the Earth by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado;

Best Actor: David Gulpill in Charlie's Country by Rolf de Heer;

The special Jury Honor went to The Salt of the Earth by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, a documentary about the latter's photographer father. Wenders was not present to accept the award. 

The late Sergio Leone’s Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars) was presented by Quentin Tarantino, and screened at the end of the ceremony.

WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE CEREMONY - IN ENGLISH:

 http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.html 

Also, the Official English Website.