2008 (61st) Cannes Film Festival
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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
Director's Fortnight
