The Cannes Jury has voted.
Winter Sleep, a three hour Turkish film, won the Palme D’or. Julianne Moore was Best actress for Maps to the Stars. Timothy Spall is best actor for Mr. Turner. Bennett Miller is Best Director for Foxcatcher.
Very interesting choices. First of all, “Foxcatcher” is now the “12 Years a Slave” of 2014. Miller will win or be nominated for a lot of awards this winter. The actors– Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo– will be too.
Timothy Spall will be a Best Actor nominee for “Mr. Turner” this winter. Watch what happens. Sony Pictures Classics has both of these movies, as well as “Whiplash,” which I predict will be a big deal also this fall.
Julianne Moore– “Maps to the Stars” directed by David Cronenberg suddenly gets a huge boost. E One will release it; hopefully they will put some real money into a campaign for Moore, who is just tremendous. She should know that people were cheering for her in the Lumiere Theater tonight. Bravo!
COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS
Palme d’Or
Winter Sleep, dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prize
Le Meraviglie (The Wonders), dir: Alice Rohrwacher
Best Director
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Jury Prize – Tie
Mommy, dir: Xavier Dolan
Goodbye To Language, dir: Jean-Luc Godard
Best Screenplay
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin, Leviathan
Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Maps To The Stars
Best Actor
Timothy Spall, Mr Turner
Camera d’Or
Party Girl, dirs: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis
Short Film
Leidi, dir: Simón Mesa Soto
Special Mention: Aïssa, dir: Clément Trehin-Lalanne
Ja Vi Elsker, dir: Hallvar Witzo
