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Monday, May 25, 2015

Cannes 2015 Winners Announced

Dheepan Cannes 2015 Winner

The 2015 Cannes Film Festival has come to a close and the winners of the prestigious awards have been revealed. The honor of the Palme d'Or was bestowed upon Jacques Audiard's "Dheepan", a crime drama that tells the story of a Sri Lankan Tamil freedom fighter who flees to France and ends up working as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. This year's jury was headed by Joel and Ethan Coen and featured Guillermo del Toro, Jake Gyllenhaal, Xavier Dolan, Sophie Marceau, Rossy de Palma, Rokia Traoré, and Sienna Miller.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Palme d'Or: Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard

Grand Prix: Son of Saul, directed by Laszlo Nemes

Best Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien for The Assassin

Best Actor: Vincent Lindon for The Measure of a Man

Best Screenplay: Chronic, written by Michel Franco

Camera d'Or (Best First Feature): La Tierra y la Sombre, directed by Cesar Acevedo

Best Actress: Rooney Mara for Carol and Emmanuelle Bercot for Mon Roi (Shared Prize)

Palme d'Or (Short Film): Waves ’98, directed by Ely Dagher

Jury Prize: The Lobster, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos




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