The Cannes Film Festival sometimes foretells the winners of the next awards season. The prestigious Palme D’or prize has predicted success for The Third Man, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, The Pianist and The Tree of Life but neither of the two previous winners managed to match the same standard as both Blue is the Warmest Colour and Winter Sleep went Oscar-less. The winners of this years festival have been announced and at the 2016 Oscars we should be looking out for Dheepan, Chronic, Son of Saul, The Assassin and Carol. The jury included The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading), Guillermo Del Toro (Pacific Rim, Pan’s Labyrinth), Sienna Miller (America Sniper, Layer Cake) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain).
Palme D’or:
Dheepan
Grand Prix:
Son of Saul
Best Director:
Hou Hsiao-hsien – The Assassin
Best Screenplay:
Michel Franco – Chronic
Jury Prize:
The Lobster
Best Actress:
Rooney Mara – Carol
Emmanuelle Bercot – Mon Roi
Best Actor:
Vincent Lindon – The Measure of a Man
Alicia Vikander is one of the biggest rising stars of the moment. The Swedish star has been acclaimed in period drama A Royal Affair and sci-fi thriller Ex Machina and is seen in this summer’s spy action The Man From UNCLE. She’s now in talks for two more upcoming blockbusters. Firstly, she’s in talks for the fifth Bourne film which is directed by Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, United 93, Green Zone) and stars Matt Damon (The Departed, Good Will Hunting, Ocean’s Eleven) and Jeremy Renner (The Avengers, The Hurt Locker, The Town). She’s also set to join the cast of video game adaptation Assassin’s Creed with Macbeth director Justin Kurzel and stars Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave, X-Men: First Class, Prometheus) and Marion Cotillard (Inception, Rust and Bone, Two Days One Night).
Some of Ridley Scott’s recent work has failed to hit the mark: The Counsellor flopped while Prometheus and Exodus remain extremely divisive. His upcoming sci-fi epic The Martian is looking significantly more promising from the first still from the film. Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner, American Gangster, Alien) directs the cast of Matt Damon (Saving Private Ryan, The Departed), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Children of Men), Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty, Interstellar), Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Black Swan), Kate Mara (House of Cards, Transcendence), Jeff Daniels (Looper, The Newsroom) and Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones).
The Martian – November 27th
Bourne 5 – July 29th 2016
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