Lanthimos picks up Prix du Jury award at Cannes for ‘The Lobster’
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Up-and-coming Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos won the third-place Prix du Jury (jury prize) at the Cannes Film Festival for the “The Lobster”, his first English-language film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.
The top Palme d’Or award went to Jacques Audiard’s immigrant drama Dheepan in what international media described as a “shocker”.
The runner-up prize was Son of Saul, a grim Hungarian Holocaust drama by first-time director László Nemes.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, a Taiwanese filmmaker, won best director for The Assassin, a martial arts tale.
The best actress prize was split between Rooney Mara of Todd Haynes’ 1950s … lesbian drama Carol, and Emmanuelle Bercot, the French star of the roller coaster marriage drama My King.
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