2008 Cannes Film Festival


2008 Cannes Film Festival


The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2008. The President of the Official Jury was American actor and director Sean Penn. Twenty two films from fourteen countries were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or. The awards were announced on 24 May, French film The Class, directed by Laurent Cantet, was awarded with the Palme.

The festival opened with Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles and closed with What Just Happened, directed by Barry Levinson. Édouard Baer was the master of ceremonies. Hunger, directed by Steve McQueen, opened the Un Certain Regard section.

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. In addition to films selected for competition this year, major Hollywood productions such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Kung Fu Panda had their world premieres at the festival.

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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