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Sunday was the final day of the Cannes Film Festival. I’m including some assorted photos from the final ceremony at the end of the post. I was reading through some last-day coverage, final thoughts and reviews of this year’s festival and I have to say… it sounds like this year’s Cannes was super-depressing. Like, the films were really, really sad. It must have been a tough year to be a judge. Anyway, here are some of the big winners (via THR):

The Palme d’Or. It was awarded to Dheepan, which is the biggest prize at Cannes. The film is about “a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl who pose as a family in order to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka.”

The runner-up (grand-prize) award went to Son of Saul. It’s a Holocaust movie about a man trying to bury his son in a concentration camp.

Best actress: a tie between Rooney Mara for Carol and Emmanuelle Bercot for Mon Roi. Many thought Cate Blanchett would win for Carol, since it’s more her movie than Rooney’s. The other thought was that Cate and Rooney would tie for Best Actress. But that didn’t happen.

Best actor: Vincent Lindon for The Measure of a Man.

Best Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien for The Assassin.

Jury prize: The Lobster, which is the romantic, dystopian drama starring Colin Farrell & Rachel Weisz.

Best screenplay: Michel Franco for Chronic.

Joel and Ethan Coen, Sienna Miller, Jake Gyllenaal and Guillermo del Toro were on this year’s jury, so they are responsible for all of this. A lot of people have mixed feelings about Deepan in particular – like, they think it was a solid film, but not really a Palme d’Or winner.

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