2011 Palm D’or Winners

2011 Cannes (Silent “S”)film festival has just wrapped this morning,with Robert DeNiro as head Juror amongst a jury which Included Uma Thurman, Jude Law and Olivier Assayas whose previous work includes last years stellar 5 hour epic, Carlos.  Apart from the typical boo’s the French love to bestow to films at Cannes, the ridiculously anticipated Terrence Malick film The Tree of Life was given the festivals highest honor with The Palm D’or award  which is the equivalent of the Best Picture Oscar. 

This years 2011 Cannes winners:

Palm D’or : The Tree of Life -Terrence Malick

Grand Prix : Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) and The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

Best Director : Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive 

Best Actor : Jean Dujardin (The Artist)

Best Actress : Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia )

Prix Du Scenario *Screenplay* : Joseph Cedar (Footloose)

Prix Du Jury : Poliss 

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