Laurent Cantet's "Entre Les Murs" won the Palme d'Or as the Cannes Film Festival came to a close tonight in France. The award for best director went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan for "Three Monkeys," while Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the award for best screenplay for "Le Silence de Lorna" and the Jury Prize went to "Il Divo," directed by Paolo Sorrentino.

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Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne tonight in Cannes.
[Photo by Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE]

8:05 p.m. (local time), indieWIRE: Cannes | The awards have been presented.

Palme d'Or:
"L'Enfant", directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Grand Prix (runner-up):
"Broken Flowers," directed by Jim Jarmusch

Prix de la Mise en Scene (Best Director):
Michael Haneke for "Cache"

Prix du Scenario (Best Screenplay Award):
Guillermo Arriaga for "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"

Camera d'Or (For best first feature) - shared:
Vimukthi Jayasundara for "Sulanga Enu Pinisa" (The Forsaken Land)
Miranda July for "Me and You and Everyone We Know"

Prix du Jury (Jury Prize):
"Shanghai Dreams," directed by Wang Xiaoshuai

Prix d'interpretation feminine (Best Actress):
Hanna Laslo for "Free Zone"

Prix d'interpretation masculine (Best Actor):
Tommy Lee Jones for "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"

Court-Metrage (Short Film):
Palme d'Or (short film): "Podorozhini" (Wayfarers) directed by Igor Strembitskyy
Prix Du Jury: "Clara," directed by Van Sowerwine

"Me And You And Everyone We Know", directed by Miranda July, has been awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique.

The Prix SACD screenwriting prize was shared by Uchida Kenji for "Unmei Janai Hito" (A Stranger of Mine) and Karin Albou for "La Petite Jerusalem".

The Prix ACID to support distribution was awarded to Zhang Lu for "Mang Zhong" (Grain in Ear).

Michael Haneke's "Caché" won the 31st Ecumenical Jury award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

The jury gave a special commendation to S. Pierre Yameogo "Delwende".

Michael Haneke's "Cache" was awarded the FIPRESCI Critics Prize for a film in or out of competition at the 58th Cannes Film Festival.

In the Un Certain Regard Section the award went to Amat Escalante's "Sangre" and Ryoo Seung-wan's "Crying Fist" was selected from the parallel Directors Fortnight or Critics' Week section.

Cristi Puiu's "Moartea Domnului Lazarescu" (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) from Romania has won the Prix Un Certain Regard for best film in the festival's Un Certain Regard section. The jury included president Alexander Payne along with Betsy Blari, Gilles Marchand, Eduardo "Quintin" Antin, Sandra Den Hamer, Katia Chapoutier, and Genevieve Welcomme."

Alain Cavalier won the Prix L'Intimite for "Le Filmeur" while S. Pierre Yameogo won the Prix de L'Espoir for "Delwende".

In Cannes, Sergio Machado's "Cidade Baixa" (Lower City) was awarded the 24th Prix de la Jeunesse, the youth prize of the Festival de Cannes. The first feature from Brazilian director Sergio Machado was selected by a jury of nine young film buffs.

In a statement the film was described as following "the stormy course of a love triangle: Deco and Naldinho have been buddies since childhood. Now they own a motorboat, which they use for their illicit dealings and their career as petty criminals. One day, they meet the stripper Karinna, and, of course, both fall in love with her."

Antonio Campos from NYU won the 1st Prize in the Cinendation competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festiva for his film, "Buy It Now". 18 films were in competition this year for the award, judged by jurors Edward Yang, Chantal Akerman, Sylvie Testud, Colin MacCabe, and Yousry Nasrallah.

The 2nd Prize was shared by Nikolay Khomeriki for "Vdvoyom" (A Deux) from La fes in France and Maya Dreifuss for "Bikur Holim" from Tel Aviv University in Israel. The 3rd Prize was shared by Roland Edzard for "La Plaine" from Le Fresnoy in France and Sameh Zoabi for "Be Quiet" from Columbia University.