Cannes Film Festival: La Vie d’Adèle Wins Palme d’Or

Cannes Film Festival 2013

French film La Vie d’Adèle, Blue is the Warmest Colour, a sexually graphic and intimate lesbian love story about two young French women, has won the Palme d’Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival. The film has attracted acclaim for the performances of its co-stars Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, as well as controversy for the explicit sex scenes.

The full list of winners, picked from the 20 films in competition, were named at the festival’s closing ceremony on Sunday.

The Winners

Palme d’Or

La Vie d’Adèle (Blue Is the Warmest Color) – Abdellatif Kechiche with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, France

Grand Prix

Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel and Ethan Coen, US

Prix du Jury

Like Father, Like Son – Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan

Prix du Scénario (Best Screenplay)

Jia Zhangke – A Touch of Sin, China

Prix de la Mise en Scène (Best Director)

Amat Escalante – Heli, Mexico

Prix d’interprétation masculine (Best Actor)

Bruce Dern – Nebraska, U.S.

Prix d’interprétation feminine (Best Actress)

Bérénice Bejo – The Past, France

The Nominees

Un Chateau en Italie (A Chateau in Italy) – Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Inside Llewyn Davis – Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Michael Kohlhaas – Arnaud Despallieres
Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) – Arnaud Desplechin
Heli – Amat Escalante
Le Passe” (The Past) – Asghar Farhadi
The Immigrant – James Gray
Grigris – Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Tian Zhu Ding (A Touch of Sin) – Jia Zhangke
Soshite Chichi Ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son) – Kore-Eda Hirokazu
La Vie d’Adele (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) – Abdellatif Kechiche
Wara No Tate (Shield of Straw) – Takashi Miike
Jeune et Jolie (Young and Pretty) – Francois Ozon
Nebraska – Alexander Payne
La Venus a la Forrure – Roman Polanski
Behind the Candelabra – Steven Soderbergh
La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) – Paolo Sorrentino
Borgman – Alex van Warmerdam
Only God Forgives – Nicolas Winding Refn