Cannes Film Festival Awards 2005
2005 Cannes Film Festival Awards
2005 Cannes Film Festival: May 11–22
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Belgian film L’Enfant / The Child, the story of a petty crook (Jérémie Renier) who suddenly takes up the responsibilities of fatherhood, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes on Saturday. The Dardenne brothers had already taken home a Palme d’Or back in 1999 for their teen drama Rosetta.
The secondary (and misnamed) Grand Prix was awarded to American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, the tale of a perennial bachelor (Bill Murray) who sets out to meet a young man who may be his son.
Best director honors went to Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, for his well-received, (mostly) French-made socio-psychological thriller Hidden, starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil as a couple menaced by a video stalker.
American actor-turned-director Tommy Lee Jones was chosen best actor for his portrayal of a tough Texas ranch worker in Jones’s own directorial début, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, while Israeli actress Hanna Laszlo won as best actress for playing a cabdriver in Amos Gitaï’s road movie Free Zone.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada also won Guillermo Arriaga an award for best screenplay.
The jury prize went to Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai’s Qing hong / Shanghai Dreams, a love story set among workers who relocated to a remote part of China during the 1960s.
The award for best film by a first-time director was shared by U.S. filmmaker Miranda July for Me and You and Everyone We Know and Sri Lanka’s Vimukthi Jayasundara for Sulanga Enu Pinisa / La Terre abandonnée / The Forsaken Land.
Surprisingly, Carlos Reygadas‘ controversial Mexican drama Batalla en el cielo / Battle in Heaven failed to win a single top award.
PALME D’OR
L’ENFANT / THE CHILD by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium / France)
GRAND PRIX
BROKEN FLOWERS Jim Jarmusch (U.S.)
PRIX D’INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE / BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Hanna Laslo in FREE ZONE by Amos Gitaï (Israel)
PRIX D’INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE / BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Tommy Lee Jones in THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA / TROIS ENTERREMENTS by Tommy Lee Jones (U.S. / France)
PRIX DE LA MISE EN SCÈNE / BEST DIRECTOR
Michael HANEKE for CACHÉ / HIDDEN (France / Germany / Austria)
PRIX DU SCÉNARIO / BEST SCREENPLAY
Guillermo ARRIAGA for THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA / TROIS ENTERREMENTS by Tommy Lee Jones (U.S. / France)
PRIX DU JURY / JURY PRIZE
QING HONG / SHANGHAI DREAMS by Wang Xiaoshuai (China)
SHORT FILMS:
PALME D’OR
PODOROZHNI / WAYFARERS by Igor Strembitskyy (Ukraine)
MENTION SPÉCIALE / SPECIAL MENTION
CLARA by Van Sowerwine (Australia)
PRIX UN CERTAIN REGARD – FONDATION GAN POUR LE CINÉMA
MOARTEA DOMNULUI LAZARESCU / THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU by Cristi Puiu (Romania)
PRIX DE L’INTIMITÉ ("Intimacy Prize")
LE FILMEUR by Alain Cavalier
PRIX DE L’ESPOIR ("Hope Prize")
DELWENDE / LÈVE-TOI ET MARCHE by S. Pierre Yameogo
CAMÉRA D’OR (First Film Award) – EX-ÆQUO
SULANGA ENU PINISA / THE FORSAKEN LAND by Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka) and ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW by Miranda July (U.S.)
CINÉFONDATION
FIRST PRIZE: BUY IT NOW by Antonio Campos
SECOND PRIZE – EX-ÆQUO: VDVOYOM / A DEUX by Nikolay Khomeriki and BIKUR HOLIM / VISITING HOURS by Maya Dreifuss
THIRD PRIZE – EX-ÆQUO: LA PLAINE by Roland Edzard and BE QUIET by Sameh Zoabi
Vulcain Artist-Technician Prize: Leslie Shatz, for the sound design of LAST DAYS and Robert Rodriguez for the "visual treatment" of SIN CITY
Regard Intimity Award: Le Filmeur – Alain Cavalier
Regard Hope Award: Delwende – S. Pierre Yameogo
Critics Week Grand Prize: Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July
SACD Screenwriting Award: La Petite Jérusalem – Karin Albou and Unmei janai hito – Kenji Uchida
ACID Award: Mang zhong – Zhang Lu
Canal+ Award: Jona/Tomberry – Rosto
Kodak Short Film Award: Hu xi – Wi Ding Ho
Young Critics Award
Best Short: Hu xi – Wi Ding Ho
Best Feature: Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July and Unmei janai hito – Kenji Uchida
Grand Golden Rail: Unmei janai hito – Kenji Uchida
Small Golden Rail: Imago – Cédric Babouche
Golden Coach: Ousmane Sembene
Label Europa Cinemas: La Moustache – Emmanuel Carrère
C.I.C.A.E. Award: Sisters in Law – Kim Longinotto; Florence Ayisi
Cinémas de Recherche – Special Mention: Odete – João Pedro Rodrigues
SACD Short Film Award: Du soleil en hiver – Samuel Collardey
Gras Savoye Award: À bras le corps – Katell Quillevere
FIPRESCI Prize
Quinzaine des réalisateurs: Jumeogi unda – Seung-wan Ryoo
Competition: Hidden – Michael Haneke
Un Certain Regard: Sangre – Amat Escalante
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Winner: Hidden – Michael Haneke
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention: Delwende – S. Pierre Yameogo
France Culture Award
Foreign Cineaste of the Year: Kárhozat – Béla Tarr
French Cineaste of the Year: Avanim – Raphaël Nadjari
Award of the Youth: Cidade Baixa – Sérgio Machado
Prix Regards Jeune
Best Short Film: Alice – Marco Martins
Best Feature Film: Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July
François Chalais Award: Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti – Marco Tullio Giordana
Norman McLaren Award: Igor Strembitsky
NFB Online Short Film Competition: Mon œil – Minh Truong Anh
Cinema Prize of the French National Education System: Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus / Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures – Marcelo Gomes
Award of the City of Rome: Pelé Eterno – Anibal Massaini Neto
Official Competition Jury: Emir Kusturica, president, Fatih Akin, Javier Bardem, Nandita Das, Salma Hayek, Benoît Jacquot, Toni Morrison, Agnès Varda, John Woo
Un Certain Regard Jury: Alexander Payne, president; Betsy Blair; Eduardo Antin (critic); Geneviève Welcomme (journalist); Gilles Marchand; Katia Chapoutier; Sandra den Hamer
Cannes Film Festival 2005 Line-Up
Cannes Film Festival Awards: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Australian Film Institute Awards 2005
Berlin Film Festival Awards 2005
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