64th Cannes Film Festival (2011) Award Winners

It's been a fun couple of weeks but now its all over.  Congratulations to this year's award winners from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes).

Official Competition

  Competition Jury Members: Martina Gusman, Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Johnnie To, Linn Ullmann, Olivier Assayas, Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Jude Law, Nansun Shi

Palme d'Or

• The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
  USA

Grand Prix (tie)

• The Kid With a Bike - Le Gamin au Vélo - Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne
  Belgium, France, Italy
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Grad Prix Winners: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Prix du Jury - Jury Prize

• Polisse - Maïwenn
  France

Jury Prize Winner: Maiwenn Le Besco

 Palme d'Or du court metrage - Best Short Film

• Cross - Cross-Country - Maryna Vroda
France, Ukraine

Short Film Palme d'Or Winner: Maryna Vroda

 Prix de la mise en scene - Best Director

• Nicolas Winding Refn for Drive
  USA

Best Director Winner: Nicolas Winding Refn

 Prix d'interpretation masculine - Best Actor

• Jean Dujardin in The Artist directed by Michel Hazanavicius
  France

Best Actor Winner: Jean Dujardin

Prix d'interpretation feminine - Best Actress

• Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia directed by Lars Von Trier
  Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy

Best Actress Winner: Kirsten Dunst

 Prix du scenario - Best Screenplay

• Footnote - Hearat Shulayim - Joseph Cedar
  Israel

Camera d'Or - Best First Film

• Las Acacias - Pablo Giorgelli
Argentina, Spain

FIPRESCI Award

• Le Havre - Aki Kaurismäki
  Finland, France, Germany

Ecumenical Jury Award

• This Must Be The Place - Paolo Sorrentino
  Italy, France, Ireland

Ecumenical Jury Special Mention

• Le Havre - Aki Kaurismäki
  Finland, France, Germany

Un Certain Regard 

Un Certain Regard jury and prize winners

Un Certain Regard Prize (Tied):

• Halt Auf Freier Strecke - Stopped on Track - Andreas Dresen
  Germany

• Arirang - Kim ki-duk
  South Korea

Jury Prize:

• Elena - Andrei Zvyagintsev
  Russia

Best Director:

• Mohammad Rasoulof for Bé Omid é Didar -  Good Bye
  Iran

FIPRESCI Award:

• L'Exercice de l'Etat - The Minister - Pierre Schoelle
  France

Ecumenical Jury Special Mention

• Wo Hallah La Wen? - Where Do We Go Now? - Nadine Labaki
  Lebanon, France

Un Certain Regard Jury: Emir Kusturica, Elodie Bouchez, Daniela Michel, Peter Bradshaw, Geoffrey Gilmore

Cinefondation

Cinefondation Jury: Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Jessica Hausner, Michel Gondry, Julie Gayet, Corneliu Porumboiu

First Prize:

• Der Brief - The Letter - Doroteya Droumeva
  Germany

Second Prize:

• Drari - Kamal Lazraq
  France

Third Prize:

• Ya-Gan-Bi-Hang - Fly By Night - Son Tae-gyum
  South Korea

Director's Fortnight / Quinzaine des Realisateurs

Label Europa Cinemas:  

• Atmen / Breathing - Karl Markovics, Austria

Art Cinema Award:

• Les Géants - Bouli Lanners, Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Prix SACD:

• Les Géants - Bouli Lanners, Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Séance "Coup de coeur":

• Play - Ruben Östlund, Sweden, France, Denmark

Critic's Week / Semaine de la Critique

Feature Films

Grand Prize:

• Take Shelter - Jeff Nichols, USA

Special Mention:

• Snowtown - Justin Kurzel, Australia

SACD Prize:

• Take Shelter - Jeff Nichols, USA

ACID/CCAS Support:

• Las Acacias - Pablo Giorgelli, Argentina, Spain

OFAJ Young Critic Award:

• Las Acacias - Pablo Giorgelli, Argentina, Spain

FIPRESCI Award:

• Take Shelter - Jeff Nichols, USA

Short Films 

Best Short:

• Blue - Stephan Kang, New Zealand

Discovery Award:  

• Dimanches - Valérie Rosier, Belgium

Special Mention:  

• Alexis Ivanovitch vous êtes mon héros - Guillaume Gouix, France

64th Cannes Film Festival Mistress of Ceremony, Mélanie Laurent