The 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival came to a close with the customary Palmares ceremony in which awards were handed. The jury headed, for the first time ever by a sibling president team of Joel and Ethan Coen awarded the coveted Palme D’Or to Jacques Audiard for his Paris set immigrant drama Dheepan, a drama charting the experiences of an ex Tamil rebel from Sri Lanka (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) making a new life in France. The top honor marks the second time the French director leaves the Croisette with a prize – he won the Grand Prix here in 2009 for A Prophet.
This time the Prix went to Laszlo Nemes and his widely acclaimed Holocaust drama Son of Saul a remarkable achievement for the Hungarian first-time director. Hou Hsiao-hsien, a festival favorite from Taiwan received the festival’s director prize for The Assassin a visually dazzling revisiting of a period martial-arts epic.
Two actresses tied for the prize in their category: Rooney Mara for her hypnotic performance in Todd Haynes’ 1950s set lesbian love story Carol and Emmanuelle Bercot who plays half of an emotionally co-dependent couple (with Vincent Cassel) in Maiwenn’s Mon Roi. 
Vincent Lindon won the actor prize for his performance as a laid-off factory worker in Stephane Brize’s The Measure of a Man, a social drama set against the current economic crisis.
The Jury Prize, the unofficial “third place” award, was given to Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster a deliciously absurdist “Sci-fi anti-romance” that imagines a society where relationships are mandated by law, starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.
The closing ceremony, which featured a musical performance by John C. Reilly and his band The Flyboys, closed an edition that had a few highpoints but lacked an overwhelming favorite. And the jury’s verdict is sure to provoke as much controversy as consensus. Without it, after all, it wouldn’t be Cannes.
Luca Celada LIST OF WINNERS:

COMPETITION
Palme d’Or: Dheepan Jacques Audiard
Grand Prix: Son of Saul Laszlo Nemes
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien The Assasins
Actor: Vincent Lindon, The Measure of a Man
Actress (tie): Emmanuelle Bercot, Mon Roi,  and Rooney Mara, Carol
Jury Prize: Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster
Screenplay: Michel Franco, Chronic
OTHER PRIZES
Palme d’Honneur:  Agnes Varda
Camera d’Or:  Land and Shade (Cesar Augusto Acevedo, Colombia)
Short Films Palme d’Or:  Waves ’98 (Ely Dagher)
Ecumenical Jury Prize:  My Mother (Nanni Moretti)

UN CERTAIN REGARD
Un Certain Regard Prize: Rams (Grimur Hakonarson, Iceland-Denmark)
Jury prize: The High Sun (Dalibor Matanic, Croatia-Slovenia-Serbia)
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Journey to the Shore (Japan-France)
Un Certain Talent Prize: Corneliu Porumboiu, The Treasure (Romania)
Special Prize for Promising Futures (tie): Nahid (Ida Panahandeh, Iran) and Masaan (Neeraj Ghaywan, France-India)

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
Art Cinema Award: The Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, Colombia)
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
Europa Cinemas Label: Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven, France-Turkey-Germany)

CRITICS’ WEEK
Grand Prize: Paulina (Santiago Mitre, Argentina-Brazil-France)
Visionary Prize: Land and Shade
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Land and Shade

FIPRESCI
Competition: Son of Saul (Laszlo Nemes, Hungary)
Un Certain Regard: Masaan
Critics’ Week: Paulina

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