'Winter Sleep', by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, wins the Palme d'Or at Cannes

The award for best director goes to Bennet Miller, for 'Foxcatcher' while Julianne Moorey and Timothy Spall win the award for acting.

At the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has won the Palme d'Or with his film Winter Sleep. Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman were in charge of presenting him with the precious award.

Winter Sleep (in Turkish, Kis uykusu) is a co-production from Türkiye, France and Germany with a script by the director himself, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and by Ebru Ceylan. It tells the story of Aydin, a retired actor who runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with the help of his young wife and sister. He is emotionally distant from the first, and the second is sad because she has just gotten divorced. As winter snow covers the steppe, the hotel becomes the scene of their woes.

For his part, actor Adrien Brody presented the best director award to Bennet Miller, for Foxcatcher.

In acting, Julianne Moore won the award for best actress; and the popular British secondary Timothy Spall won the award for best actor for his work in Maps to the stars y Mr Turner, respectively.

Complete honors

• Palme d'Or: “Winter Sleep”, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Türkiye, France and Germany)
• Grand Jury Prize: “Le meraviglie”, by Alice Rohrwacher (Italy, Switzerland and Germany)
• Best Director: Bennett Miller for “Foxcatcher” (USA)
• Best female performance: Julianne Moore, for “Maps to the stars” (Canada and Germany)
• Best Male Performance: Timothy Spall for “Mr Turner” (UK)
• Mejor guión: Andrey Zvyagintsev, por “Leviathan” (Rusia)
• Premio del Jurado: ex aequo a “Mommy”, de Xavier Dolan, (Canadá) y a “Adieu au langage”, de Jean-Luc Godard. (Francia)
• Cámara de Oro a la mejor ópera prima: “Party Girl”, dirigida por Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger y Samuel Theis. (Francia)
• Palma de Oro al mejor cortometraje: “Leidi”, de Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia y Reino Unido)
• Menciones especiales de cortometrajes: “Aissa”, de Clément Trehin-Lalanne (Francia); y “Ja vi elsker” (“Yes we love”), de Hallvar Witzo. (Noruega)