The Palme d'Or, the top honour at the Cannes Film Festival, has been awarded to French movie The Class. Director Laurent Cantet filmed real students and teachers to give a "documentary-like" feel to his depiction of a year at a school in a Paris suburb. The Cannes best actor award went to Benicio Del Toro for his role in (more)...
- 5/27/2008
- by By Dave West
- Digital Spy
Steven Spielberg has been given France's highest honour for his work documenting the Holocaust.
The moviemaker was made an officer in the French Legion of Honor by President Nicolas Sarkozy during a ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.
Spielberg made the trip to the French capital from the Cannes Film Festival, where the director screened the world premiere of his new blockbuster Indiana Jones + The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull on Sunday.
The moviemaker was made an officer in the French Legion of Honor by President Nicolas Sarkozy during a ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.
Spielberg made the trip to the French capital from the Cannes Film Festival, where the director screened the world premiere of his new blockbuster Indiana Jones + The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull on Sunday.
- 5/21/2008
- WENN
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