2011 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner and Nominees

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick

The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents’ conflicting teachings.

Drive

Nicolas Winding Refn

Footnote

Joseph Cedar

Hanezu

Naomi Kawase

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Takashi Miike

House of Tolerance

Bertrand Bonello

Le Havre

Aki Kaurismäki

Melancholia

Lars von Trier

Michael

Markus Schleinzer

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Pater

Alain Cavalier

Polisse

Maïwenn

Sleeping Beauty

Julia Leigh

The Artist

Michel Hazanavicius

The Kid with a Bike

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

The Skin I Live In

Pedro Almodóvar

The Source

Radu Mihaileanu

This Must Be the Place

Paolo Sorrentino

We Have a Pope

Nanni Moretti

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lynne Ramsay