Official Competition FilmsPalme D'Or Entre Les Murs (The Class) by Laurence Cantet who previously won international acclaim for the film Human Resources [France]
Grand Prize (Runner Up) Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone (First Love, The Embalmer) which looks at the Italian mafia not from the perspective of the wealthy leaders but from the working class underlings. AO Scott called it "furious and brilliant" [Italy]
Jury Prize Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino, an inventive biopic on Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti (played by Toni Servillo) [Italy]
Best Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan for The Three Monkeys [Turkey]
Special Prize "Prix de 61st Festival de Cannes" awarded to both Catherine Deneuve for her participation in Un Conte de Noel (A Christmas Tale) (by Arnaud Depleschin) AND Clint Eastwood for ChangelingScreenplay The Dardenne Brothers (who never leave Cannes without some sort of prize) for Lorna's Silence [Belgium]
Actor Benicio Del Toro who plays Che Guevera in Che [USA]
Actress Sandra Corveloni who plays the struggling tough mother of four boys in Linha de Passe [Brazil]
Prizes from other Cannes Juries
(outside the main competition)
Camera D'Or (awarded to first time filmmakers) Steve McQueen for Hunger which is about the Maze Prison during the IRA's hunger strike in the 80s.
Camera D'Or Special Mention Everybody Dies But Me by Valeria Gaï Guermanika
Best Short Megatron by Marian Crisan about a Romanian boy on his birthday
Short Special Mention Jerrycan by Julius Avery about a kid suffering from bullying
Un Certain Regard Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan
Ecumenical Jury Prize Atom Egoyan for Adoration
