Cannes Film Festival 2014: The Big Winners
all the big winners from the Cannes film festival 2014 in Cannes,French Riviera
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Palme d'Or: Winter Sleep
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the festival's biggest prize for the Turkish drama Winter Sleep. This is only the second Turkish Palme d'Or win and comes at a time when Turkish cinema is celebrating its centenary.
The director dedicated his prize to the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives during the last year in the struggle. -
Best Actress: Julianne Moore
American actress Julianne Moore won the Best Actress honour for her performance in David Cronenberg's dark Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars. The actress was unavailable to collect the honour in person and screenwriter Bruce Wagner accepted the award on her behalf. -
Best Actor: Timothy Spall
The Best Actor honour went to veteran actor Timothy Spall for his performance as the British painter J M W Turner in Mike Leigh's biopic Mr. Turner. The actor talked about his long and often overlooked career in an emotional speech. -
Best Director: Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller, who is best known for his films Capote and Moneyball won the Best Director honour for his biographical film Foxcatcher which is based on the life of based on Olympic wrestling gold medalist Mark Schultz. Miller dedicated his award to his film's stars Channing Tatum, Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo. -
Jury Prize: Shared between Xavier Dolan's Mommy and Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language.
This was an interesting turn of events as the Jury Prize was shared between the festival's oldest director and veteran director Jean-Luc Godard, 83, and the youngest director Xavie Dolan, 25.
Godard was not present at the festival this year.
