Cannes Film Festival Awards Articles

Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life Who’ll take home the 2011 Palme d’Or? I wonder if Little Fockers star and Official Competition jury president Robert De Niro, and fellow jury members Martina Gusman, Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To, Jude Law, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Uma Thurman, Linn Ullmann, and Nansun Shi have any idea themselves. [My Cannes 2011 awards predictions.] Strong Palme d’Or possibilities include Terrence Malick’s The [...]

Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Skoonheid / Beauty Oliver Hermanus‘ South African drama Skoonheid / Beauty, reportedly the first Afrikaans-language film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, won the Queer Palm, given to the best Cannes film dealing with what some like to call “queer” — i.e., gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender — issues. Skoonheid was presented in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. In [...]

Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, about an author-turned-shoeshiner (André Wilms) who tries to assist a young African immigrant pursued by France’s immigration police, has won the International Federation of Film Critics’ FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in the Official Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Other FIPRESCI winners were Pierre Schoeller’s L’exercice de l’Etat / The Minister in the Un Certain [...]

Doroteya Droumeva’s The Letter Doroteya Droumeva’s Der Brief / The Letter (Germany), about a pregnant woman’s mysterious letter, was chosen as the winner at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation Awards during a ceremony held at the Buñuel Theatre. The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury — Julie Gayet, Jessica Hausner, Corneliu Porumboiu, João Pedro Rodrigues and President Michel Gondry — awarded the runner-up prize to [...]