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- Festival: May 13-May 24, 2009
- Where: Cannes, France
- Top Prizes: Palme d'Or, Grand Prix Award
- 2009: Clint Eastwood was honored with a lifetime achievement Palme d'Or, only the second person to ever receive that awardGuardian: Cannes Film Festival Honours Clint Eastwood (February 26, 2009)
- 2007: 60th Anniversary
- 15 awards categories honor various aspects of filmmaking, including acting, directing, and screenwriting
- The Palme d'Or is presented to the jury's selection of the best film
- Isabelle Huppert has had sixteen of her films screened in competition at Cannes, won two Best Actress Awards, and was previously a Cannes jury member in 1984E: Huppert to Head Cannes Jury (April 23, 2009)
- Quentin Tarantino is the only American director screening a film in the Palme d'Or competitionE online: Tarantino, Almodovar, Lee Do Cannes-Cannes (April 23, 2009)
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the last film Heath Ledger worked on prior to his death, will be screened out of competitionE online: Tarantino, Almodovar, Lee Do Cannes-Cannes (April 23, 2009)
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The 2009 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced on April 23, 2009. The 62nd Cannes Film Festival will be held May 13 - 24, 2009 and will open with Up. The closing film of the festival will be Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
French actress Isabelle Huppert has been selected as the head of the Cannes Film Festival jury for 2009.E: Huppert to Head Cannes Jury (April 23, 2009)
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Feature Film Jury
- Jury President: Isabelle Huppert actress (France)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Asia Argento, actress, director, screenwriter (Italy)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor (Turkey)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter (South Korea)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- James Gray, director, screenwriter (U.S.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter (U.K.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Shu Qi, actress (Taiwan)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Robin Wright Penn, actress (U.S.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
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Cinefondation and Short Film Jury
- Jury President: John Boorman, director, author, producer (U.K.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Bertrand Bonello, director (France)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Ferid Boughedir, director (Tunisia)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Leonor Silveira, actress (Portugal)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Zhang Ziyi, actress (China)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
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Films in Competition
- Bright Star, Director: Jane Campion (Australia, U.K., France)
- Spring Fever, Director: Lou Ye (China, France)
- Antichrist, Director: Lars von Trier (Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy)
- Enter the Void, Director: Gaspar Noe (France)
- Face, Director: Tsai Ming-liang (France, Taiwan, Netherlands, Belgium)
- Les herbes folles, Director: Alain Resnais (France, Italy)
- In the Beginning, Director: Xavier Giannoli (France)
- A Prophet, Director: Jacques Audiard (France)
- The White Ribbon, Director: Michael Haneke (Germany, Austria, France)
- Vengeance, Director: Johnnie To (Hong Kong, France, U.S.)
- The Time That Remains, Director: Elia Suleiman (Israel, France, Belgium, Italy)
- Vincere, Director: Marco Bellocchio (Italy, France)
- Kinatay, Director: Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
- Thirst, Director: Park Chan-wook (South Korea, U.S.)
- Broken Embraces, Director: Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
- Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Director: Isabel Coixet (Spain)
- Fish Tank, Director: Andrea Arnold (U.K., Netherlands)
- Looking for Eric, Director: Ken Loach (U.K., France, Belgium, Italy)
- Inglourious Basterds, Director: Quentin Tarantino (U.S.)
- Taking Woodstock, Director: Ang Lee (U.S.)
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Special Screenings
- Petition, Director: Zhao Liang (China)
- L'epine dans le coeur, Director: Michel Gondry (France)
- Min ye, Director: Souleyumane Cisse (France, Mali)
- Jaffa, Director: Keren Yedaya (Israel, France, Germany)
- Manila, Director: Adolfo Alix Jr., Raya Martin (Philippines)
- My Neighbor, My Killer, Director: Anne Aghion (U.S.)
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Un Certain Regard
- Samson and Delilah, Director: Warwick Thornton (Australia)
- Adrift, Director: Heitor Dhalia (Brazil)
- The Wind Journeys, Director: Ciro Guerra (Colombia)
- Demain des l'aube, Director: Denis Dercourt (France)
- Irene, Director: Alain Cavalier (France)
- Independance, Director: Raya Martin (Philippines, France, Germany)
- Le Pere de mes enfants, Director: Mia Hansen-Love (France-Germany)
- Dogtooth, Director: Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
- Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats, Director: Bahman Ghobadi (Iran)
- Eyes Wide Open, Director: Haim Tabakman (Israel)
- Mother, Director: Bong Joon-ho (South Korea)
- The Silent Army, Director: Jean van de Velde (Netherlands)
- To Die Like a Man, Director: Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal)
- Police, Adjective, Director: Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania)
- Tales from the Golden Age, Directors: Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru (Romania)
- Tale in the Darkness, Director: Nikolay Khomeriki (Russia)
- Tzar, Director: Pavel Lounguine (Russia, France)
- Nymph, Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thailand)
- Precious, Lee Daniels (U.S.)
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