61st annual Cannes Film Festival (2008)
Palme d'Or:
24 City / 二十四城记/二十四城記 (Jia Zhangke - China)
Adoration (Atom Egoyan - Canada)
Blindness (opening film) (Fernando Meirelles - Brazil, Canada, Japan)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood - United States)
Che (part I: The Argentine and part II: Guerilla) (Steven Soderbergh - Spain, Germany, France, United States)
A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël (Arnaud Desplechin - France)
The Class / Entre les murs (Laurent Cantet - France)
Delta (Kornél Mundruczó - Hungary)
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino - Italy)
Frontier of the Dawn / La frontière de l'aube (Philippe Garrel - France)
Gomorrah / Gomorra (Matteo Garrone - Italy)
The Headless Woman / La mujer sin cabeza (Lucrecia Martel - Argentina, Spain, France, Italy)
Lion's Den / Leonera (Pablo Trapero - Argentina, South Korea, Brazil, Spain)
Linha de Passe (Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas - Brazil)
My Magic (Eric Khoo - Singapore)
Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders - Germany, France, Italy)
Service / Serbis (Brillante Mendoza - Philippines, France)
Lorna's Silence / Le silence de Lorna (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - Belgium, Italy, Germany)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman - United States)
Three Monkeys / Üç Maymun (Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Turkey)
Two Lovers (James Gray - United States)
Waltz with Bashir / ואלס עם באשיר (Ari Folman - France)
Grand Prix:
Gomorra by Matteo Garrone
Jury Prize:
Paolo Sorrentino for Il Divo
Best Director:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Three Monkeys
Best Actor:
Benicio del Toro in Che
Best Actress:
Sandra Corveloni in Linha de Passe
Best Screenplay:
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne for Lorna's Silence
Special Prize of the Festival:
Catherine Deneuve
Clint Eastwood