Salma Hayek poses after the awards ceremony at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Actress Diane Kruger attends the Closing Ceremony held at the Palais des Festivals during the 63rd Annual Cannes International Film Festival on Sunday, May 23, 2010 in Cannes, France.
Actress Salma Hayek arrives for the awards ceremony at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Actress Emmanuelle Beart arrives for the awards ceremony in Cannes, Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz arrive during the awards ceremony Sunday.
Actress Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress award for her performance in Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's "Certified Copy."
In her speech accepting the Best Actress award, Binoche attacked the Iranian government for imprisoning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. "There is a man who is in Iran today. His fault is to be an artist, to be independent and I'm thinking of him specially this evening," she told the packed Grand Theatre Lumiere.
Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul receives the Palme d'Or award from actress Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Antichrist") during the awards ceremony at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France, Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film, "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," won the top honor, the Palme d'Or. The film traces the dreamlike final days of a man dying of kidney failure as the ghost of his dead wife returns to tend him and his long-lost son comes home in the form of a furry jungle spirit.
French director Xavier Beauvois, winner of the Grand Prix award, and actress Salma Hayek are seen during the awards ceremony. Beauvois' solemn drama "Of Gods and Men," based on the true story of seven French monks beheaded during Algeria's civil war in 1996, won the festival's second prize.
Javier Bardem and Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu embrace during the awards ceremony Sunday, May 23, 2010. Bardem shared the top acting prize for the film "Biutiful."
Actress Diane Kruger ("Inglorious Basterds") presents the award for Best Actor to Javier Bardem and Elio Germano during the awards ceremony at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France, Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Actor Javier Bardem blows a kiss during the awards ceremony Sunday.
Javier Bardem poses with his award Sunday.
Elio Germano poses with his Best Actor award following the awards ceremony Sunday.
Winner of the award for Best Director award, Mathieu Amalric, poses with actresses Evie Lovelle, Mimi Le Meux, Dirty Martini and Kitten on the Keys, following the awards ceremony Sunday. Amalric won for "On Tour," in which he plays the manager of a troupe of American burlesque strippers performing around France.
Actress Juliette Binoche, winner of the award for Best Performance By An Actress, poses after the awards ceremony in Cannes Sunday.
The screenplay honor was presented to South Korean director Lee
Chang-dong (right, with actor Lee Joondong and actress Yun Junghee) for "Poetry," his gentle portrait of a grandmother struggling to write a poem as she copes with the onset of Alzheimer's and her troublesome grandson.
Actress Salma Hayek poses after the awards ceremony Sunday.
Winner of the Jury Prize award, Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun poses after the awards ceremony Sunday. Haroun's stark film, "A Screaming Man," chronicles the tragic consequences for a father after he loses his cherished job as a swimming pool attendant to his son amid his country's civil war.
Kate Beckinsale and Benicio Del Toro arrive at the premiere of "The Tree" at the Palais de Festival in Cannes, France.
Actress Kirsten Dunst arrives at the premiere of "The Tree" at the Palais de Festival in Cannes, France on Sunday.
Actress Kristin Scott Thomas poses after the awards ceremony Sunday.
Actress Fan Bing Bing arrives at the premiere of "The Tree," the closing night selection of the festival, on Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Actress Fan Bing Bing arrives at the premiere of "The Tree," the festival's closing night film, at the Palais de Festival in Cannes, France. Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Director and Jury President Tim Burton arrives for the awards ceremony at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival Sunday, May 23, 2010.