The Cannes Film Festival Blog

Palme d'Or: "Amour" Grand Prix: "Reality" Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director): Carlos Reygadas, "Post Tenebras Lux" Prix du Scenario (best screenplay): "Beyond The Hills" Camera d'Or (best first feature): "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Prix du Jury (jury prize): "The Angel's Share" Prix d'interpretation feminine (best actress): Cosmina Stratan and Christina Flutor, "Beyond The Hills" Prix d'interpretation masculine (best actor): Mads Mikkelsen, "The Hunt"

A hidden, but pretty key gem on the sometimes a little hard to navigate official Cannes Festival site are the trailers of all films in the 2012 Festival  (added link to top menu to make it easier to find). All is there - competition films, side programs, even "Cannes Classics". Here are some straight links to some of the most highly anticipated films by the "general public": Cosmopolis starring the "rob" part of robsten - Robert Pattinson. Trailer looks promisingly gruesome, dangling rats (or is it mice? does it matter?) included, in line with Director Cronenberg's past oeuvre. On the Road  - on to the "sten" part, Kristen Stewart. Based on Jack Kerouacs famous novel. Madagascar 3  - which suitably starts out in nearby Monaco The "most mysterious trailer" award, though, goes to "Holy Motors" - see for yourself why .

The Cannes Film Festival is one of the best-covered media events each year. Thousands of journalists from all around the world write even more articles every day covering film screenings, a little scandal here and a celebrity sighting there.. The number of journalists attending the Cannes Film Festival is approaching or even exceeding the number of journalists at the Olympic games. But journalism is so ... yesterday in these times of the "real-time Web". Is it possible to get some news straight from the source? Are there Cannes key players using their twitter accounts to give first hand impressions on what's going on at the Cannes Film Festival? Here's a shortlist of the most interesting or prominent Cannes Film Festival tweeters and non-tweeters we came across for now (later updates not precluded), what they write about, and whether they are worth following. Hiam Abbass - the Palestinian actress and jury member is not on twitter  Andrea Arnold - well there...

Walking along the Croisette after midnite, ran into Alec Baldwin walking slowly along the Croisette towards the Carlton Hotel and being filmed chatting to a corpulent, very hollywood-looking companion. It seems this is part of the work on Baldwin's Cannes Film festival documentary called "Seduced and Abandoned" which is following Baldwin and his partner looking for funding for a movie during the festival, interviewing several director's along the way to determine the current state of cinema - deadline.com has all the details .