The Palme d'Or

At the 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu's taut, gritty "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," in which a college girl pursues an illegal abortion in communist Romania, won the Palme d'Or. "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" furthers the theory of an emergence of a "Romanian New Wave" in postmodern cinema, with Romanian Cristi Puiu’s fantastic "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" (2006) in similar company. As for the remainder of the winners at the Cannes Film Festival, read below.

Grand Prix: Naomi Kawase's "The Mourning Forest" (Japan)
Special Jury Prize: Carlos Reygadas' "Stelle Licht" (Mexico) and Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's "Persepolis" (France)
Best Director: Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (France)
Best Actor: Konstantin Lavronenko, "The Banishment" (Russia)
Best Actress: Jeon do-yeong, "Secret Sunshine" (South Korea)
Best Screenplay: Fatih Akin, "The Edge of Heaven" (Germany)
Special 60th Anniversary Award: Gus Van Sant, "Paranoid Park" (United States)