2008 Cannes Film Festival Closes As Palme d'Or Is Given To The Class

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The glamour, the parties, and all those premieres and press conferences are over for another year, as the Palme d'Or was given out at the award ceremony to mark the end of the Cannes Film Festival 2008. A French film called The Class got the Palme d'Or this year, and its young stars were full of smiles and excitement at their win, Benicio del Toro and Catherine Deneuve also received awards at the ceremony, and jurors Natalie Portman and Sean Penn and actor Robert De Niro were among those giving them out.

But before the awards there was one more premiere, this time for Synecdoche and a photocall with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener and Samantha Morton, as well as a fabulous Dior party hosted by Sharon Stone.

If you've missed any of our coverage on the Sugar network, check it all out here, as we wave goodbye to another fun fortnight in France... sob. For a list of Cannes winners and an extensive gallery of the last few days of the festival, just read more

Cannes Awards 2008

Palme d'Or - The Class

Grand Prix - Gomorrah

Special prizes - Clint Eastwood and Catherine Deneuve

Best director - Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Three Monkeys

Jury prize - Il Divo directed by Paolo Sorrentino

Best actor - Benicio del Toro in Che

Best actress - Sandra Corveloni in Line of Passage

Best screenplay - Lorna's Silence by Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Camera d'Or - Hunger

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