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CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS MICHAEL HANEKE WHITE RIBBON WINS PALME D’OR PROPHET WINS GRAND PRIX

The winners at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival were announced.  Michael Haneke won the Palm d'Or for the White Ribbon and Prophet took the Grand Prix.  The jury comprised of Jury President Isabel Huppert, Asia Argento, Shu Qi, Sharmila Tagore, Robin Wright Penn, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, James Gray, Hanif Kureishi and Lee Chang-dong. explained how they made their decision of the winners at this year's festival.  Congrats to all of the winners! Watch clips and highlights from the festival on the official website.

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“The White Ribbon,” a meticulous examination of patriarchal domination, won the Palme d’Or at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. Directed by the Austrian-born Michael Haneke and shot in black and white, the much-admired film — a foundation story about National Socialism set in a rural pre-World War I German community — turns on a series of violent events that appear to be the work of some children. In 2001 Mr. Haneke won the Grand Prix (effectively second place) for his harrowing drama “The Piano Teacher,” which starred Isabelle Huppert, president of this year’s competition jury.  The Grand Prix, also announced on Sunday, went to “A Prophet,” a pitch-perfect film from the French director Jacques Audiard about a young inmate who becomes a master criminal during a prison stretch. The film was the critical favorite throughout the festival, and Mr. Audiard received a standing ovation from the audience when he mounted the stage. Far more surprising was the Jury Prize (third place), which was split between “Fish Tank,” a slice of Brit-grit realism from Andrea Arnold, and the neo-exploitation vampire flick “Thirst,” from the South Korean director Park Chan-Wook. Both were booed by the press watching the show via live broadcast.

The director Terry Gilliam, here with the noncompetition film “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” delivered some funny onstage shtick by pretending to accept the directing prize, which he was meant to bestow. (“Terry, you don’t receive, you give,” the host explained, promising that Mr. Gilliam could have something next year if he didn’t create a scandal.) The actual winner of the director award was Brillante Mendoza, from the Philippines, whose grisly, widely loathed shocker, “Kinatay” (“Slaughter”), hinges on a man who doesn’t prevent a murder. The screenwriting award went to Mei Feng for “Spring Fever,” a rather baggy if underappreciated drama about young Chinese malaise.

Ms. Huppert handed the prize for best actress to Charlotte Gainsbourg, who delivers a wild, fearless performance as a grieving mother in “Antichrist,” an English-language film from the Danish director Lars von Trier. It’s easy to imagine that Ms. Huppert and her fellow juror, the actress Asia Argento, both ferocious screen performers, were impressed with the intensity of Ms. Gainsbourg’s performance, which involves a fair amount of nudity and some frantic (and graphic) backwoods masturbation.  The best-actor award for the Austrian Christoph Waltz, who plays a Nazi officer in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II movie, “Inglourious Basterds,” made everyone happy. Speaking in French, English and German, Mr. Waltz called the film an “unbelievable experience,” thanked his co-star Brad Pitt, along with the creator of Mr. Waltz’s “unique and inimitable” character, Colonel Landa. His voice colored with emotion, he addressed Mr. Tarantino directly: “You gave me my vocation back.” [NYT]

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BEYONCE, JAY-Z AND DIDDY PARTY AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL| P.DIDDY SCREENWRITING PROJECT

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Newlyweds Beyonce and Jay-Z were having fun partying in France during the weekend at the Cannes Film festival.

Diddy spent the week partying in the French Riviera. Lohan and Naomi Campbell are some of the celebrities who attended his yacht parties. He also attended the AMFAR benefit with Madonna, Natalie Portman and Mary J Blige. Now P.Diddy wants to get more involved in the movies and is planning to write a screenplay.  We're just wondering about his ideas for the female leads in the film. Sounds like Diddy may be planning to get close to his rumored ex-hook up Sienna Miller.  Sienna Miller is now a single gal after her break up with Rhys Ifans. We must also mention that Diddy's  Eddie Murphy casting choice is interesting because he was just rumored to be linked to Eddie's ex-minute wife Tracey Edmonds.

The musician who has tried his luck in acting through movies like Jon Favreau's "Made" and Marc Forster's "Monster's Ball" confessed that he is developing a script for a comedy movie stating, "I'm writing a film, a comedy." Further, the producer of MTV's "Making the Band" revealed that he has thought of about whom he thinks perfect for the roles. "For actresses (who could be cast), I'm thinking Angelina Jolie or Sienna Miller. For actors, Eddie Murphy," so claimed Diddy. source

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED LIST

Awards given Sunday at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, selected by a nine-member jury headed by actor-director Sean Penn:

Palme d'Or (Golden Palm): "The Class," Laurent Cantet (France).

Grand Prize: "Gomorrah," Matteo Garrone (Italy).

Jury Prize: "Il Divo," Paolo Sorrentino (Italy).

Special 61st Anniversary Prizes: Catherine Deneuve (France) and Clint Eastwood (United States).

Best Director: "Three Monkeys," Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey).

Best Actor: Benicio Del Toro, "Che" (United States).

Best Actress: Sandra Corveloni, "Linha de Passe" (Brazil).

Best Screenplay: "Lorna's Silence," Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium).

Golden Camera (first-time director): "Hunger," Steve McQueen (Britain).

Best short film: "Megatron," Marian Crisan (Romania).

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