Cannes Goes "Blue!" Lesbian Romance Tops Festival!

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 Abdellatif Kechiche's "Blue is the Warmest Color" was the biggest winner of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The coming-of-age lesbian drama starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux was awarded the Palme d'Or by the fantastic jury including Steven Spielberg, Christoph Waltz, Ang Lee, and Nicole Kidman. The esteemed jury also honored the cast of the film. Yay!

The Coen Brothers' 1960s folk music flick, "Inside Llewyn Davis," starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, and Justin Timberlake, took home the Grand Prix award. 

Berenice Bejo (we loved her in "The Artist") won Best Actress for Asghar Farhadi's "The Past" and Bruce Dern took home the Best Actor as an aging, booze-addled father who goes on a trip from Montana to Nebraska to claim a million dollar Mega Sweepstakes prize in Alexander Payne's "Nebraska." 

Here's the complete list of the winners of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Congrats everyone!

The complete list of winners:

Palme d’Or: Blue Is The Warmest Color, director, Abdellatif Kechiche

Grand Prize: Inside Llewyn Davis, Ethan and Joel Coen

Best Director: Amat Escalante, Heli

Jury Prize: Like Father, Like Son, director: Hirokazu Kore-Eda

Best Screenplay: Zhangke Jia, A Touch Of Sin

Best Actress: Bérénice Bejo, The Past

Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Nebraska Camera

d’Or: Ilo Ilo, director: Anthony Chen

Best Short Film: Safe, director: Byoung-Gon Moon

Special mention: 37°4 S, director, Adriano Valerio, Whale Valley director, Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson


 



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