2008 (61st) Cannes Film Festival

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• Film Festival: Cannes Film Festival
• Edition: 61st
• Period: May 14 - May 25, 2008
• Location: Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France

Awards

• Palme d’Or: The Class"
• Grand Prix: "Gomorra"
• Prix de la Mise en Scene - Best Director: Nuri Blige Ceylan (Three Monkeys)
• Prix du Scenario - Best Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Luc Dardenne ("Lorna's Silence")
• Prix d’interpretation feminine - Best Actress: Sandra Corveloni (Linha De Passe)
• Prix d’interpretation masculine - Best Actor: Benicio Del Toro (Che)
• Prix du Jury - Jury Prize: Il Divo
• Vulcain Prize for an artist technician: Il Divo
• Special Prize for the 61st Festival Ex-aequo: Catherine Deneuve/Clint Eastwood
• Palme d'Or - Short Film: Megatron (Marian Chrisan)
• Jury Prize - Short Film: Jerrycan (Julius Avery)

Competition

• "24 City" - Jia Zhangke (China)
• "Blindness" - Fernando Meirelles (Brazil/Japan/Canada)
• "My Magic" - Eric Khoo (Singapore)
• "Service" - Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
• "Adoration" - Atom Egoyan (Canada)
• "Che" - Steven Soderbergh (USA)
• "Delta" - Kornel Mundruczo (Hungary/Germany)
• "The Class" - Laurent Cantet (France)
• "Gomorra" - Matteo Garrone (Italy)
• "Il Divo" - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy/France)
• "Changeling" - Clint Eastwood (USA)
• "Frontier of Dawn" - Phillippe Garrel (Italy/France)
• "The Headless Woman" - Lucrecia Martel (Argentina/Spain/France)
• "Lorna's Silence" - Jean-Pierre Luc Dardenne (Belgium/France/Italy)
• "Leonera" - Pablo Trapero (Argentina/South Korea/Brazil)
• "Linha De Passe" - Walter Salles (Brazil)
• "Palmero Shooting" - Wim Wenders (Germany)
• "Synecdoche, New York" - Charlie Kaufman (USA)
• "Two Lovers" - James Gray (USA)
• "Three Monkeys" - Nuri Blige Ceylan (Turkey/France/Italy)
• "A Christmas Tale" - Arnaud Desplechin (France)
• "Waltz With Bashir" - Ari Folman (Israel/France/Germany)

Un Certain Regard

• "Ocean Flame" - Fendou Liu (Hong Kong)
• "Parking" - Mong-Hong Chung (Taiwan)
• "Soi Cowboy" - Thomas Clay (Thailand/UK)
• "Tokyo!" - Joon-ho Bong/Leos Carax/Michel Gondry (Japan/France)
• "Tokyo Sonata" - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
• "The Dead Girl's Feast" - Matheus Nachtergaele (France)
• "Afterschool" - Antonio Campos (USA)
• "Involuntary" - Ruben Ostlund (Sweden)
• "Hunger" - Steve McQueen (UK/Ireland)
• "I Want to See" - Joana Hadjithomas/Khalil Joreige (France/Lebanon)
• "Johnny Mad Dog" - Jean-Stephane Sauvaire (France/Belgium/Liberia)
• "Country Profiles: Modern Life" - Raymond Depardon (France)
• "The Bastards" - Amat Escalante (Mexico/France/USA)
• "Salt of This Sea" - Annemarie Jacir (Palestine/Belgium/France/Spain/Switzerland)
• "O'Horten" - Bent Hamer (Norway/Germany/France)
• "Tulpan" - Sergei Dvortsevoy (Germany/Kazakhstan/Poland/Russia/Switzerland)
• "Tyson" - James Toback (USA)
• "Versailles" - Pierre Scholler (France)
• "Wendy and Lucy" - Kelly Reichardt (USA)
• "Cloud 9" - Andreas Dresen (Germany)

Out of Competition

• "The Chaser" - Hong-jin Na (South Korea)
• "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" - Ji-woon Kim (South Korea)
• "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" - Steven Spielberg (USA)
• "Kung Fu Panda" - Mark Osborne/John Stevenson (USA)
• "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" - Woody Allen (Spain/USA)
• "What Just Happened" - Barry Levinson (Spain/USA)
• "Maradona by Kusturica" - Emir Kusturica (Spain/France)
• "Surveillance" - Jennifer Chambers Lynch (USA/Germany)

Special Screenings

• "Ashes of Time Redux" - Kar Wai Wong (Hong Kong)

Director's Fortnight

• "Knitting - Lichuan Yin (China)
• "Now Showing" - Raya Martin (Philippines)