- Source: 2008 Cannes Film Festival
The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2008. American actor and filmmaker Sean Penn served as jury president for the main competition. French filmmaker Laurent Cantet won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film The Class.
The festival opened with Blindness by Fernando Meirelles and closed with What Just Happened by Barry Levinson. Édouard Baer was the master of ceremonies.
The British press reported the list of films in competition this year was notable for its absence of British films for the second successive year.
Juries
= Main competition
=The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2008 Official Selection:
Sean Penn, American actor and director - Jury President
Jeanne Balibar, French actress and singer
Rachid Bouchareb, Franco-Algerian director
Sergio Castellitto, Italian actor and director
Alfonso Cuaron, Mexican filmmaker
Alexandra Maria Lara, German-Romanian actress
Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author and director
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai filmmaker
= Un Certain Regard
=Fatih Akin, Turkish-German director - Jury President
Anupama Chopra, Indian film critic and author
Yasser Moheb, critic
Yekaterina Mtsituridze, Russian journalist
José Maria Prado, Spanish filmoteca manager
= Cinefondation and Short Films Competition
=Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwanese filmmaker - Jury President
Olivier Assayas, French filmmaker
Susanne Bier, Danish filmmaker
Marina Hands, French actress
Laurence Kardish, American curator
= Caméra d'Or
=Bruno Dumont, French filmmaker - Jury President
Isabelle Danel, critic
Jean-Michel Frodon, French critic
Monique Kourdine, French member of the Fédération des Industries Tech
Willy Kurant, Belgian cinematographer
Jean Henri Roger, French director
Official selection
= In Competition
=The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
= Un Certain Regard
=The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:
= Out of Competition
=The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
= Special Screenings
=The following films were selected for the Special Screenings:
= Cinéfondation
=The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:
= Short film competition
=The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
= Cannes Classics
=Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema and restored masterworks from the past.
Tributes
Douro, faina fluvial by Manoel de Oliveira (1931)
Documentaries about Cinema
Restored prints
Parallel sections
= International Critics' Week
=The following films were screened for the 47th International Critics' Week (47e Semaine de la Critique):
Feature film competition
Short film competition
Special screenings
Short films
Prix de la Critique
= Directors' Fortnight
=The following films were screened for the 2008 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
Feature films
Special screenings
Short films
Official Awards
= In Competition
=The following films and people received the 2008 Official selection awards:
Palme d'Or: The Class by Laurent Cantet
Grand Prix: Gomorra by Matteo Garrone
Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Three Monkeys
Best Screenplay: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne for Lorna's Silence
Best Actress: Sandra Corveloni in Linha de Passe
Best Actor: Benicio del Toro in Che
Jury Prize: Paolo Sorrentino for Il Divo
Special Prize of the Festival:
Catherine Deneuve
Clint Eastwood
= Un Certain Regard
=Prix Un Certain Regard: Tulpan by Sergey Dvortsevoy
Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize: Tokyo Sonata by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Heart Throb Jury Prize: Cloud 9 by Andreas Dresen
Knockout Prize: Tyson by James Toback
Prize of Hope: Johnny Mad Dog by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
= Cinéfondation
=First Prize: Himnon by Elad Keidan
Second Prize: Forbach by Claire Burger
Third Prize:
Stop by Park Jae-Ok
Roadmarkers by Juho Kuosmanen
= Caméra d'Or
=Hunger by Steve McQueen
Special mention: Everybody Dies But Me by Valeriya Gai Germanika
= Short Films Competition
=Short Film Palme d'Or: Megatron by Marian Crişan
Jury Prize: Jerrycan by Julius Avery
Independent Awards
= FIPRESCI Prizes
=Hunger by Steve McQueen (Un Certain Regard)
Eldorado by Bouli Lanners (Directors' Fortnight)
Delta by Kornél Mundruczó (In competition)
= Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist
=Luca Bigazzi (cinematographer) and Angelo Raguseo (sound mixer) for Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino
= Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
=Adoration by Atom Egoyan
= International Critics' Week
=Critics Week Grand Prize: Snow by Aida Begić
SACD Award: Moscow, Belgium by Christophe Van Rompaey
ACID/CCAS Award: Moscow, Belgium by Christophe Van Rompaey
OFAJ/TV5MONDE Young Critics Award: Blood Appears by Pablo Fendrik
Canal+ Gran Prix for short film: Next Floor by Denis Villeneuve
Kodak Discovery Award for Best Short Film: Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin
= Regards Jeunes Prize
=Everybody Dies But Me by Valeriya Gai Germanika
= Prix François Chalais
=Wild Blood by Marco Tullio Giordana
References
External links
2008 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 2008
Cannes Film Festival Awards for 2008 at Internet Movie Database
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- List of Cannes Film Festival records
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