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Ken Loach film takes the top prize at Cannes '06!!!

Hey folks, Harry here with the winners of this year's Cannes Film Festival. These are some of the films you should take note of to see this year. Here ya go...

The complete list the 2006 Festival de Cannes are being announced tonight in France.

Palme d'Or: "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" by Ken Loach

Grand Prix (runner-up): "Flanders" by Bruno Dumont

Prix de la Mise en Scene (Best Director): Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for "Babel"

Prix du Scenario (Best Screenplay Award):Pedro Almodovar for "Volver"

Camera d'Or (For best first feature): "A Fost sau n-a fost?" (12:08 East of Bucharest) by Corneliu Porumbolu

Prix du Jury (Jury Prize): "Red Road" by Andrea Arnold

Prix d'interpretation feminine (Best Actress): Ensemble female cast of "Volver" by Pedro Almodovar (Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave)

Prix d'interpretation masculine (Best Actor): Ensemble male cast of "Indigenes" by Rachid Bouchareb (Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Bernard Blancan)

Court-Metrage (Short Film): Palme d'Or (short film): "Sniffer" by Bobby Peers

Prix Du Jury: "Premiera Nieve" by Pablo Aguero

Special Mention: "Conte de quartier" by Florence Miaihe



UN CERTAIN REGARD

Prix Un Certain Regard - Fondation Gan Pour le Cinema: "Luxury Car" by Wang Chao

Prix Special du Jury Un Certain Regard: "Ten Canoes" by Rolf De Heer

Prix d'Interpretation Un Certain Regard (acting award): Dorotheea Petre for "The Way I Spent the End of the World" (Cum Mi-Am Petrecut Sfarsitul Lumii) by Catalin Mitulescu

Prix d'Interpretation Un Certain Regard (acting award): Don Angel Tavira for "El Violin" by Francisco Vargas

Prix du President du Jury Un Certain Regard: Patrick Grandperret for "Meurtrieres"



CINEFONDATION

Premier Prix: "Ge & Zeta" by Gustavo Riet

Second Prize: "Mr Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker" by Stefan Mueller

Third Prize (shared): "Mother" by Sian Heder and "A Virus" by Agnes Kocsis

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thats right, a twopher
by flamingrunt
May 28th, 2006
04:00:20 PM
hmmm
by TheLastBystander
May 28th, 2006
04:13:39 PM
easiest way to win at Cannes: bash America
by Silver Shamrock
May 28th, 2006
04:24:35 PM
At least in Cannes they...
by Koola_Norway
May 28th, 2006
04:34:13 PM
Irish politics usually makes for muddled cinema
by Cuchulain
May 28th, 2006
04:37:40 PM

by CRanapia
May 28th, 2006
04:40:26 PM
Any film festival...
by Gilkuliehe
May 28th, 2006
04:56:29 PM
terrorism
by TheLastBystander
May 28th, 2006
05:03:23 PM
Terrorism?
by irishfella
May 28th, 2006
05:26:45 PM
"Host" didn't win best picture?
by CrispyOne
May 28th, 2006
06:35:32 PM
KEN LOACH! Awesome!
by zikade zarathos
May 28th, 2006
06:39:18 PM
iraq war needs a new marketing strategy
by JackRabbitSlim
May 28th, 2006
06:42:33 PM
Ken Loach? Wow, I thought it would be Volver for sure.
by Cameron1
May 28th, 2006
07:12:22 PM
Irishfella
by StrangeCo
May 28th, 2006
07:46:19 PM
It's a real shame that Lynch's Inland Empire...
by DanielKurland
May 28th, 2006
08:08:15 PM
raise your glass, boys, for auld lang syne
by thebearovingian
May 28th, 2006
08:19:26 PM
Odd...
by chaplinatemyshoe
May 28th, 2006
08:25:37 PM
Please don't let...
by dcooph
May 28th, 2006
09:05:58 PM
Is 'KES' the greatest film ever made..?
by workshed
May 28th, 2006
09:35:10 PM
One day a Troma film will win Palme d'Or
by chickychow
May 28th, 2006
09:36:42 PM
Paul Gleason died.
by Osmosis Jones
May 28th, 2006
09:40:31 PM
Wow, I can't pronounce any of those films...
by Booji Boy
May 28th, 2006
10:05:49 PM

by Amadeus Zero
May 28th, 2006
10:56:24 PM
I can't believe they sneaked by that Simpsons movie,
by seppukudkurosawa
May 28th, 2006
11:26:19 PM
The frenchs hates the spanish
by chien_sale
May 28th, 2006
11:38:59 PM
RE: workshed
by chaplinatemyshoe
May 28th, 2006
11:52:43 PM
10 Canoes!!
by Monkey Butler
May 29th, 2006
12:17:41 AM
"Don't mess with the bull sony, you'll get the horns!"
by pokadoo
May 29th, 2006
04:17:31 AM
Irishfella I bet is not even from Ireland but
by Spike fan
May 29th, 2006
04:36:04 AM
Yeah, these all look like classics
by WillowFan2001
May 29th, 2006
04:55:06 AM
Why are you morons going on about Terrorism?
by Splinter
May 29th, 2006
04:57:52 AM
Splinter
by irishfella
May 29th, 2006
05:25:19 AM
So basically you lot in the US endorsing murder...
by Floyd_Dylan
May 29th, 2006
05:34:46 AM
It's a period piece people
by irishfella
May 29th, 2006
05:41:24 AM
Floyd Dyan, you truly are an astounding imbecile.
by Splinter
May 29th, 2006
05:55:14 AM
Etcetera
by irishfella
May 29th, 2006
06:17:02 AM
Splinter you just don't get it.
by Floyd_Dylan
May 29th, 2006
07:47:47 AM
Oh dear, sweet, keening Christ.
by Splinter
May 29th, 2006
07:58:27 AM
"You Mess With The Bull..." RIP PAUL GLEASON.
by ripper t. jones
May 29th, 2006
08:02:52 AM
X box?
by irishfella
May 29th, 2006
08:27:45 AM
Hurrah for Ken...
by brycemonkey
May 29th, 2006
08:35:27 AM
YEAH
by gravitasone
May 29th, 2006
10:01:01 AM
Splinter I know our history and we've learn't
by Floyd_Dylan
May 29th, 2006
10:40:34 AM
MR. BEAKS DIES AT AGE 67
by Darth Pestilence
May 29th, 2006
10:56:35 AM
Go go UK!!
by tehDude
May 29th, 2006
10:59:18 AM
They forgot a category...
by tehDude
May 29th, 2006
11:00:37 AM
European niggers
by Colin_Ireland
May 29th, 2006
11:12:10 AM
Irish History and its complexities
by Wild At Heart
May 29th, 2006
11:23:19 AM
I am irish, too and from dublin, too and
by emeraldboy
May 29th, 2006
11:24:56 AM
Paul Gleason is dead!!!
by Drworm2002
May 29th, 2006
11:26:20 AM
Is 'KES' the greatest film ever made..? - Answer - NO
by DavidCamp
May 29th, 2006
11:40:40 AM
Ireland has changed
by emeraldboy
May 29th, 2006
11:44:08 AM
"can you describe the ruckus...?"
by havocSchultz
May 29th, 2006
12:36:55 PM
Butt out Havoc, you half deutschebag
by seppukudkurosawa
May 29th, 2006
12:49:04 PM
Stupid Flanders
by Big Bad Clone
May 29th, 2006
01:08:46 PM
go Eire go
by ajudas torch
May 29th, 2006
01:41:12 PM
Uh, who in the HELL in America calls the IRA Heroes?
by Durendal
May 29th, 2006
02:05:13 PM
Floyd
by irishfella
May 29th, 2006
02:11:10 PM
terrorism?
by s0nicdeathmonkey
May 29th, 2006
02:26:09 PM
I heard Southland Tales was absolutely horrible.
by Barry Egan
May 29th, 2006
02:26:15 PM
yea, everything ive read said SLT is unwatchable
by s0nicdeathmonkey
May 29th, 2006
02:39:52 PM
Man - guess SLT and MARIE ANTOINETTE were bad
by LilOgre
May 29th, 2006
04:30:16 PM
Wong Kar-Wai! Wong Kar-Wai!
by StrangeCo
May 29th, 2006
04:30:57 PM
Great. All those films combined will
by veritasses
May 29th, 2006
05:58:59 PM
RE: Host didn't win Best Picture
by Harry Weinstein
May 29th, 2006
06:01:23 PM
Big Irish Question
by RichJohnston
May 29th, 2006
06:36:44 PM
Of course what Loach may get in trouble for...
by RichJohnston
May 29th, 2006
06:49:01 PM
irishfella
by Floyd_Dylan
May 29th, 2006
11:57:54 PM
what's the difference between the palm d'or
by Gay Jesus Christ
May 29th, 2006
11:59:51 PM
i believe...
by havocSchultz
May 30th, 2006
12:09:49 AM
Still no Obit for the late, great Paul Gleason?
by LeiaDown&FuckHer
May 30th, 2006
03:18:59 AM
DavidCamp... I had to laugh
by workshed
May 30th, 2006
08:59:37 PM

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