2010 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2010 Official Selection:

• Tim Burton, American filmmaker - Jury President
• Alberto Barbera, Italian film critic
• Kate Beckinsale, English actress
• Emmanuel Carrère, French author, screenwriter and director
• Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
• Alexandre Desplat, French composer
• Víctor Erice, Spanish filmmaker
• Shekhar Kapur, Indian director
• Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress

Un Certain Regard

• Claire Denis, French filmmaker - Jury President
• Patrick Ferla, Swiss journalist
• Kim Dong-ho, South Korean director of Busan Film Festival
• Helena Lindblad, Swedish critic
• Serge Toubiana, French General Director of the Cinémathèque Française

Camera d'Or

• Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor and director - Jury President
• Stéphane Brizé, French director
• Gérard de Battista, French cinematographer
• Didier Diaz, FICAM
• Charlotte Lipinska, French critic and member of the French Union of Critics

Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition

• Atom Egoyan, Canadian director - Jury President
• Emmanuelle Devos, French actress
• Carlos Diegues, Brazilian filmmaker
• Dinara Droukarova, Russian actress
• Marc Recha, Spanish Director

Official Selection

In Competition

Two days before the beginning of the festival, the just finished film Route Irish by Ken Loach, was added to the main competition. The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:

''Un Certain Regard''

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Special Screenings

The following films were selected to be screened:

''Cinéfondation''

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:

Cannes Classics

The following films were selected to be screened:

''Cinéma de la Plage''

The Cinéma de la Plage section line-up includes classics films, commemorations and world premieres of new productions at the Cannes' Plage Macé. The following films were selected to be screened:

Parallel sections

Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 49th Critics' Week (49e Semaine de la Critique):

Directors' Fortnight

The documentary film Benda Bilili! about disabled Kinshasa street musicians Staff Benda Bilili had its world premiere at the festival, with the group in attendance and performing at the Director's Fortnight opening party. The following films were screened for the 2010 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):

Official Awards

The following films and people received the 2010 Official selection awards:

In Competition

• Palme d'Or: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Grand Prix: * Of Gods and Men* by Xavier Beauvois
• Best Director: Mathieu Amalric for On Tour
• Best Screenplay: Poetry by Lee Chang-dong
• Best Actress: Juliette Binoche for Certified Copy
• Best Actor:
  • Javier Bardem for Biutiful
  • Elio Germano for Our Life
• Prix du Jury: A Screaming Man by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Un Certain Regard

• Prix Un Certain Regard: Hahaha by Hong Sang-soo
• Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: October by Daniel Vega, Diego Vega
• Un Certain Regard Best Actress Award: Adela Sanchez, Eva Bianco, Victoria Raposo for The Lips

Cinéfondation

• First Prize: The Painting Sellers by Juho Kuosmanen
• 2nd Prize: Anywhere Out of the World by Vincent Cardona
• 3rd Prize:
  • The Fifth Column by Vatche Boulghourjian
  • I Already Am Everything I Want to Have by Dane Komljen

Golden Camera

• Caméra d'Or: Año Bisiesto by Michael Rowe

Short films

• Short Film Palme d'Or: Barking Island by Serge Avédikian
• Short Film Jury Prize: Bathing Micky by Frida Kempff

Independent awards

[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prizes]]

• On Tour by Mathieu Amalric (In Competition)
• Adrienn Pál by Ágnes Kocsis (Un Certain Regard)
• You All Are Captains by Oliver Laxe (Directors' Fortnight)

Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist

• Vulcan Award: Leslie Shatz, Bob Beemer, Jon Taylor (Sound Department) for Biutiful

Ecumenical Jury

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Of Gods and Men by Xavier Beauvois
  • Special Mention:
  • Another Year by Mike Leigh
  • Poetry by Lee Chang-dong

Critics' Week

• Critics' Week Grand Prize: Armadillo by Janus Metz Pedersen
• SACD Award: Bi, Don't Be Afraid by Di Dang Phan
• ACID Award: Bi, Don't Be Afraid by Di Dang Phan
• Young Critics Award: Sound of Noise by Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
• Canal+ Gran Prix for short film: Berik by Daniel Joseph Borgman
• Kodak Discovery Award for Best Short Film: Deeper Than Yesterday by Ariel Kleiman

Regards Jeunes Prize

• Heartbeats by Xavier Dolan

[[François Chalais Prize|Prix François Chalais]]

• Life, Above All by Oliver Schmitz

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