After two weeks of fabulous frocks, awards and accolades and more celebrities than in Kim and Kanye’s phonebook – the Cannes Film Festival has drawn to a close. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights of the most glamourous event in the showbiz calendar.
Things Can Get VERY Emotional
Whether it’s from the continual partying or simply being overwhelmed by the grandeur of the whole event, it seems that the stars can’t help shedding a tear when they come to Cannes. At the Wonderstruck press conference, everyone cried. Seriously, everyone. The screening of Noah Baumbach starring Dustin Hoffman also ended with the entire audience turning on the waterworks. Finally, we’re not quite sure why but Kirsten Dunst burst into tears on the red carpet.However, it’s not all doom and gloom. Will Smith and Emma Thompson kept spirits high when they appeared at the festival’s opening press conference and on the red carpet for The Meyerowitz Stories respectively.
Celebrities Do Weird Things
1.Ben Stiller admitting that he didn’t know how to pronounce the name to his own film.
2.Elisabeth Moss and Gwendoline Christie holding hands and announcing that they want to release a shoe range together.
3.Terry Notary pretending to be an ape on the red carpet while being watched by his fellow celebrities.
Nicole Kidman
Australian actress Nicole Kidman made a stand against the lack of women behind the camera in Hollywood. Speaking at the festival she said that it was a given that female actors should be supportive of women behind the scenes. Nicole, who was at the festival promoting her new film The Beguiled, told reporters the shocking statistics about female directors. ‘Only 4.2% of women directed the major motion pictures of 2016. That’s a statistic from the Women in Film group. There were 4,000 episodic TV series and only 183 women directed them.’
The Big Winner
The Square won this year’s highest accolade the Palme d’Or. Despite winning the top prize the Swedish film received mixed reviews from the critics. Actress Jessica Chastain, who sat on the judging panel this year, said she was concerned about the portrayal of women in the films this year. ‘The one thing I really took away from this experience was how the world views women. There are some exceptions, but for the most part, I was surprised with the representation of female characters on the screen in these films.’
The Other Winners
Grand Prix: BPM (Beats per Minute)
Jury prize: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Loveless
70th-anniversary award: Nicole Kidman
Best Director: Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled
Best Actress: Diane Kruger, In the Fade
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Best Screenplay: Joint winners Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Lynne Ramsay for You Were Never Really Here
Camera d’Or (best debut film): Leonor Serraille, Jeune Femme
Short film prize: A Gentle Night, Qiu Yang