2008 (61st) Cannes Film Festival Contents 1 Profile 2 Awards 3 Competition 4 Un Certain Regard 5 Out of Competition 6 Special Screenings 7 Director's Fortnight Profile 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" - Chung Mong-Hong (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" - Wong Kar-Wai (Hong Kong) Director's Fortnight "Knitting - Lichuan Yin (China) "Now Showing" - Raya Martin (Philippines) Page Discussion View View source History