The winners   Awards given Saturday at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, selected by a nine-member jury headed by American director Quentin Tarantino:   Palme d'Or (Golden Palm): "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore (United States).   Grand Prize: "Old Boy," Park Chan-wook (South Korea).   Jury Prize: Actress Irma P. Hall, "The Ladykillers," (United States), and "Tropical Malady," Apichatpong Weerasethakul, (Thailand).   Best Director: "Exiles," Tony Gatlif (France).   Best Actor: Yagira Yuuya (Japan), "Nobody Knows."   Best Actress: Maggie Cheung (China), "Clean."   Best Screenplay: "Look at Me," Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri (France).   Golden Camera (first-time director): "Or," Keren Yedaya, (France/Israel).   Best short film: "Traffic," Catalin Mitulescu (Romania).   Jury Prize for short film: "Flatlife," Jonas Geirnaert (Belgium).   SOURCE: The Associated Press

CANNES, France - American filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," a scathing indictment of White House actions after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, won the top prize Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. "Fahrenheit 9/11" was the first documentary to win Cannes' prestigious Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's and Louis Malle's "The Silent World" in 1956. "What have you done? I'm completely overwhelmed by this. Merci," Moore said after getting a standing ovation from the Cannes crowd. The grand prize, the festival's second-place honor, went to South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook's "Old Boy," a blood-soaked thriller about a man out for revenge after years of inexplicable imprisonment. Moore was momentarily flabbergasted when he took the stage to accept the award, a big difference from his fiery speech against President Bush after winning the best-documentary Academy Award for 2002's "Bowling for Columbine." "You have to understand, the last time I was on an awards stage, in Hollywood, all hell broke loose," Moore said. "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the top award at a festival that sharply divided Cannes moviegoers, who found a solid crop of good movies among the 19 entries in the festival's main competition but no great ones that rose to front-runner status. While "Fahrenheit 9/11" was well-received by Cannes audiences, many critics felt it was inferior to Moore's Academy Award-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine," which earned him a special prize at Cannes in 2002. Some critics speculated that if "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the top prize, it would be more for the film's politics than its cinematic value. With Moore's customary blend of humor and horror, "Fahrenheit 9/11" accuses the Bush camp of stealing the 2000 election, overlooking terrorism warnings before Sept. 11 and fanning fears of more attacks to secure Americans' support for the Iraq war. Moore appears on-screen far less in "Fahrenheit 9/11" than in "Bowling for Columbine" or his other documentaries. The film relies largely on interviews, footage of U.S. soldiers and war victims in Iraq, and archival footage of Bush. "Fahrenheit 9/11" made waves in the weeks leading up to Cannes after the Walt Disney Co. refused to let subsidiary Miramax release the film in the United States because of its political content. Miramax bosses Harvey and Bob Weinstein are negotiating to buy back the film and find another distributor. The winners

 

Awards given Saturday at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, selected by a nine-member jury headed by American director Quentin Tarantino: Palme d'Or (Golden Palm): "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore (United States). Grand Prize: "Old Boy," Park Chan-wook (South Korea). Jury Prize: Actress Irma P. Hall, "The Ladykillers," (United States), and "Tropical Malady," Apichatpong Weerasethakul, (Thailand). Best Director: "Exiles," Tony Gatlif (France). Best Actor: Yagira Yuuya (Japan), "Nobody Knows." Best Actress: Maggie Cheung (China), "Clean." Best Screenplay: "Look at Me," Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri (France). Golden Camera (first-time director): "Or," Keren Yedaya, (France/Israel). Best short film: "Traffic," Catalin Mitulescu (Romania). Jury Prize for short film: "Flatlife," Jonas Geirnaert (Belgium). SOURCE: The Associated Press