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71th Festival de Cannes Award Winners

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Watching red carpet, soon the top prizes of Cannes 2018. Saturday May 19th Morning Update :  Un Certain Regard winners,  Queer Palm winners and more ... Today AFP gives us the most interesting news as this year will be the first time in 71 years of the festival where those Cannes main awards that used to receive diplomas will receive a mini-palmes d'or! Main Competition Palme d'Or: 万引き家族 Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters), Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan Grand Prix: BlacKkKlansman , Spike Lee, USA Jury Award : كفرناحوم Capharnaüm (Capernaum), Nadine Labaki, Lebanon and France Palme d'Or Special : Le Livre d'image (The Image Book), Jean-Luc Godard,  France Best Director : Pawel Pawlikowski for Zimna wojna (Cold War), Poland, France and UK Best Screenplay : (tie) Alice Rohrwacher for Lazzaro Felice (My Bitter Land), Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany Nader Saelvar for Three Faces , Jafar Panahi, Iran Best Actress : Samal Yeslyamova in Айка Ayka (My Little...

57th Semaine de la Critique Award Winners

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Yesterday, the Cannes parallel section had their award ceremony with top award going to a Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama. Check winners below in GREEN and at official press release here . Most interesting is the availability of 500 FREE tickets to watch the 2018 short films selection via Festival Scope.   Starting today, May 17th and until May 27th IF you hurry, will be able to watch the shorts; but act fast as there are only 500 tickets and yes, they're sold out quite quickly.  Festival Scope site is here . ---///--- 4/19/18 A few days back organizers released the video with Charles Tesson, Semaine de la Critique Artistic Director and Charlotte Lipinska, journalist and film critic announcing the selection for the 2018 edition of the Critics' Week and there is no surprise when we find that -as always- selection is eclectic (and strange) but having high-profile actors in the selection, is quite unusual and yes, surprising. Paul Dano's directing debut film has J...