WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Jury of the 67th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Jane Campion awarded WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan the winner of the Palme d’or award.The award was presented to director Nuri Bilge Ceylan by actress Uma Thurman and director Quentin Tarantino.
In WINTER SLEEP, Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce.In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities…
Nuri Bilge Ceylan said: “This is a huge surprise for me, I wasn’t expecting it. I don’t know what to say. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema, which is a happy coincidence. I would like to thank the Festival de Cannes for supporting this long project. Thank you to the Jury, to Thierry Frémaux and Gilles Jacob. I would like to dedicate this Palme d’or to the young people of Turkey and to those who lost their lives during the year. Thank you very much”.
The complete list of winners of the 67th Cannes Film Festival Awards
Palme d’or
WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix
LE MERAVIGLIE (The Wonders) by Alice Rohrwacher
Best Director Award
Bennett Miller for FOXCATCHER
Jury Prize ex-aequo
MOMMY by Xavier Dolan
ADIEU AU LANGAGE (Goodbye to language) by Jean-Luc GODARD
Best Screenplay Award
Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for LEVIATHAN
Best Actress Award
Julianne Moore in MAPS TO THE STARS by David Cronenberg
Best Actor Award
Timothy SPALL in MR. TURNER by Mike LEIGH
SHORT FILMS
Palme d’or
LEIDI by Simón Mesa Soto
Special Mention – Ex-aequo
AÏSSA by Clément Trehin-Lalanne
JA VI ELSKER (Yes We Love) by Hallvar Witzø
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Un Certain Regard Prize
FEHÉR ISTEN by Kornél Mundruczó
Jury Prize
TURIST by Ruben Östlund
Un Certain Regard Special Prize
THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Ensemble Prize
PARTY GIRL by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis
Best Actor Award
David Gulpilil in CHARLIE’S COUNTRY by Rolf de Heer
CAMÉRA D’OR
PARTY GIRL by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis presented in the Un Certain Regard Selection
CINÉFONDATION
First Prize
SKUNK by Annie Silverstein
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Second Prize
OH LUCY! by Atsuko Hirayanagi
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia, Singapore
Joint Third Prize
LIEVITO MADRE by Fulvio Risuleo
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy
THE BIGGER PICTURE by Daisy Jacobs
National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
The Jury of the CST has awarded the VULCAN AWARD OF THE TECHNICAL ARTIST to:
Dick POPE, director of photography, for bringing to light the works of Turner in the movie MR. TURNER by Mike LEIGH