Cannes Awards 2009
2009 Cannes Film Festival Awards
2009 Cannes Film Festival: May 13–24
IN COMPETITION – FEATURE FILMS
Palme d’Or DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon) directed by Michael HANEKE
Grand Prix UN PROPHÈTE (A Prophet) directed by Jacques AUDIARD
Jury Prize (tie) FISH TANK directed by Andrea ARNOLD and BAK-JWI (Thirst) directed by PARK Chan-Wook
Best Director Brillante MENDOZA for KINATAY
Best Actor Christoph WALTZ in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS directed by Quentin TARANTINO
Best Actress Charlotte GAINSBOURG in ANTICHRIST directed by Lars von TRIER
Best Screenplay MEI Feng for CHUN FENG CHEN ZUI DE YE WAN (Spring Fever) directed by LOU Ye
Prix Vulcain: Artist-Technician Aitor BERENGUER, sound technician of the movie MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO directed by Isabel COIXET
Lifetime achievement award for his [...]
by Andre Soares | May 24, 2009
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Cannes 2009: Jane Campion, Alain Resnais, Brillante Mendoza, Johnnie To, Lou Ye
Peter Bradshaw on Bright Star (with Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, above) in The Guardian:
"Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d’Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which I think could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the ecstasy of loss which suffuses his love affair with Fanny Brawne – a love thwarted not due to illness, but to a pernicious web of money worries, social scruples and irrelevant male loyalties."
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Maggie Lee on Kinatay in The Hollywood Reporter:
"Festival darling Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay is a long night’s journey into the [...]
by Massimo David | May 20, 2009
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