US painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel won the best director prize Sunday at Cannes for his French-language tragedy "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
Russian actor Konstantin Lavronenko won the Cannes film festival's Best Actor prize Sunday for his role in "The Banishment" by Andrei Zviagintsev.
A harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Ethan and Joel Coen, and Wong Kar-wai to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday.
It's the story line in a movie that counts first and foremost, Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese told a crowd of wannabe film-makers at Cannes on Thursday.
"All the world's a stage" wrote Shakespeare, and this year at Cannes, India, Lebanon, Poland, Africa, Colombia and Slovenia are spotlighted at the festival event "All The World's Films".
Three year has passed since the last time he showed up at Cannes Festival. Brad Pitt looks so different, because of the different woman standing beside him.
Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Shirley Temple, Charlie Chaplin, Abraham Lincoln, James Dean and Queen Elizabeth II stopped by Cannes Tuesday -- or at least their fictional counterparts did, on the big screen.
The men of "Ocean's Thirteen" -- Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and the rest -- rolled into Cannes this week betting its notoriously tough film critics would declare their movie a winner.
The king of pop cinema, Quentin Tarantino, paid homage to 1970s car action flicks at the Cannes film festival Tuesday with "Death Proof", in which gears and girls grind for his camera in an exercise heavy on style but light on substance.
There have been enough show-stopping, jaw-dropping moments in Cannes this year to make the film festival's 60th anniversary memorable, even if the tone of many movies has been somber.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt spoke emotionally about love and family as they premiered their new film Monday about the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl by Islamic extremists.
Hollywood star and long-time environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has a message for the world: go green now, before it's too late.