Showing posts with label Winners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winners. Show all posts

Monday, May 23, 2011

Winners of the prize of the Festival de Cannes

CANNES, France - awards presented at the 64th Festival de Cannes, selected by a jury chaired by American actor Robert De Niro. :

_Palme gold (Palme d'Or): "the tree of life" of Terrence Malick (United States)

_Grand price: shared between "The Kid with the bike" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)

_Jury Prize: "Poliss" by Ma?wenn (France)

_Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn for "Drive" (Denmark)

_Best actor: Jean Dujardin, "The artist" (France)

_Best actress: Kirsten Dunst, "Melancholy" (from the United States film, the Denmark, actress)

_Best scenario: Joseph Cedar, "Reference" (Israel)

_Camera gold (Director): "Las Acacias" by Pablo Giorgelli (Argentina)

_Best short film: "Country" by Maryna Vroda (Ukraine)

Cannes Film Festival award winners

 64Th Festival de Cannes Awards, selected by a jury chaired by American actor Robert De Niro. :

-The Palme d'Or of the (Palme d'Or): "the tree of life" of Terrence Malick (United States)


-Grand prize: shared between "The Kid with the bike" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)


-Jury prize: "Poliss" by Ma?wenn (France)


-Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn for "Drive" (Denmark)


-Best actor: Jean Dujardin, "The artist" (France)


-Best actress: Kirsten Dunst, "Melancholy" (from the United States film, the Denmark, actress)


-Best screenplay: Joseph Cedar, "Reference" (Israel)


-Camera (Director) Gold: "Las Acacias" by Pablo Giorgelli (Argentina)


-Best short film: "Country" by Maryna Vroda (Ukraine)

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Winners crossing the finish line of "the amazing Race" (AP)


LOS ANGELES - LaKisha Hoffman and Jennifer Hoffman rode past the Harlem Globetrotters to win "amazing Race".


The sisters, the two coaches originally from Chicago, crossed the finish line first to win the grand prize of $ 1 million reality series. Despite never landing on the carpet first any stage of the 18th Edition of the race around the world, the sisters overcame his teammates Globetrotter Nathaniel "Big Easy" Lofton and Herbert "Flight time" Lang to win the final stage which was broadcast on Sunday.


"The only time where it is important to winning a leg is this last step," said LaKisha Hoffman.


Sports teams battled for first place after that the displacement of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazil, in Miami, FLA duo. father-daughter, Gary and Mallory Erwin persisted in the third place after their taxi driver lost the way to a dry dock boat challenge.


Outcome of the race was clear in the last task: establishment of a trailer in a trailer park.


"I'm gonna be Livin' in one of these if I do win,"Mallory Erwin teasing.""


In case of wind visibly, the Hoffmans built their first trailer and charged past the Globetrotters on tricycles in the line across the seven Mile Bridge. Lofton and Lang, who came in all of first in the previous two legs of the competition, on the bridge that they would be able to capture the Hoffmans.


"We beat out by two girls, but it's OK," Lang joked on the finish line.


Marks the victory of Hoffmans the second time in the history of the race that a female has taken the top spot.


The 18th Edition of "The Amazing Race featured 11 teams of competing veteran who had never won a grand prize of the show. The race began a wind park in Palm Springs, California and included stops in Australia, Japan, China, India, Austria and the Liechtenstein.