Javier Bardem is 'Biutiful' best actor at Cannes Festival
Javier Bardem won the big prize for best actor at the Cannes Festival.
He earned his honor for Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Biutiful," a grim portrait of a dying father. Also playing a father in crisis, Elio Germano shared the best-actor award for Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti's "Our Life," a drama about a widower with three sons. (The trailer of the movie 'Biutiful' is below).
You've seen the movie, right? It's intense. So the process has been very intense, but it's been also very rewarding in the sense of going to places where an actor has to grow up as a professional."
He added: "This is ... intense, but there is hope in every gesture that he does toward the human beings that surround him, the kids, the immigrants the wife.
Javier was supported by lover Penelope Cruz. Check the photos below.
Juliette Binoche won best actress for her role in “Certified Copy” by the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
Other awards handed out include:
- Grand Prize: Of Gods and Men by Xavier Beauvois (France).
- Jury Prize: A Screaming Man by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad)
- Best director: Mathieu Amalric for On Tour (France).
- Best actor: Javier Bardem, Biutiful (Mexico) and Elio Germano, La Nostra Vita (Italy).
- Best actress: Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy (Iran).
- Best screenplay: Lee Chang-Dong, Poetry (Korea).
- Best short film: Chienne d'Histoire, by Serge Avedikian (France).
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