Winter Sleep wins Palme d'Or at Cannes 2014
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's drama wins big
Winter Sleep has been awarded the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2014.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's three hours plus super-talky Turkish film about a Hotel in the Cappadocian mountain region, and the community that surrounds it, scooped top honours at the festival.
Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders scored the Grand Prix, and Timothy Spall and Julianne Moore took home the Actor and Actor prizes.
The full list of winners is as follows:
FEATURE FILMS
Palme d'Or
Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix
The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher
Award for Best Director
Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher
Jury Prize
Mommy by Xavier Dolan AND Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Godard
Award for Best Screenplay
Andrei Zvyagintsev for Leviathan
Award for Best Actress
Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg
Award for Best Actor
Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner by Mike Leigh.
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