Thailand's "Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat" wins Palme d'Or at 2010 Festival de Cannes
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A film from Thailand entitled "Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat" or "UncleBoomee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" won the highest prize Palme d'Or
in the Festival de Cannes 2010 awarded Sunday, May 23, in France.
It's directed by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and features
Thai actors, but is actually a co-production of Thailand with UK,
France, Germany and Spain.
It took 13 years for Asia to win the Golden Palm award of Cannes. The
last time was in 1997 when Japan and Iran tied for the award.
Other Asian winners this 2010 are Korea's "Poetry" as Best Screenplay
and "Ha Ha Ha" as Un Certain Regard Grand Prize winner.
Hollywood stars Javier Bardem and Juliette Binoche won the acting
honors. Both were already Oscar winners. Barden was 2007 Oscar Best
Supporting Actor for the movie "No Country for Old Men" while Binoche
won Oscar Best Supporting Actress for "The English Patient" in 1996.
The Best Director trophy this year went to Mathieu Amalric of France.
Last year, Philippines' Brillante Mendoza won the award.
Here's the full list of winners for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival:
Palme d'Or (Golden Palm): Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat [UK, Thailand,
France, Germany, Spain]
Grand Prix (Grand Prize): Des Hommes Et Des Dieux (Of God and Men) [France]
Jury Prize: A Screaming Man [France, Belgium]
Best Director: Mathieu Amalric for Tournée (On Tour) [France]
Best Actors: Javier Bardem for Biutiful [Spain] and Elio Germano for
La Nostra Vita [Italy, France] - It's a tie!
Best Actress: Juliette Binoche for Certified Copy [France, Italy, Iran]
Best Screenplay: Lee Chang-dong for Poetry [Korea]
Palme d'Or Short Film: Chienne d'Histoire (Barking Island) [France]
Jury Prize Short Film: Micky Bader (Bathing Mickey) [Sweden, Denmark]
Prix of Un Certain Regard: Ha Ha Ha [South Korea]
Jury Prize Un Certain Regard: Octubre [Peru, Venezuela, Spain]
Special Award for Best Actresses Un Certain Regard: Victoria Raposo,
Eva Bianco and Adela Sanchez for Los Labios (The Life) [Argentina]
Complete winners at festival-cannes.fr
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