Prior to the beginning of each event, the Festival's board of directors appoints the juries who hold sole responsibility for choosing which films will receive a Cannes award.

And Mr. Bertolucci, who won his first Cannes award in 1964 for "Before the Revolution," has seen them all.

She has won an Academy Award, Golden Globe awards, Emmy awards and a Cannes award.

Akın, on the other hand, has never denied his Turkish roots and even accepted the Cannes award in the name of Turkish cinema.

A word about Mr. Turturro: The Cannes best-actor award does not automatically make the recipient a star, especially in the United States.

He is famous by the Happydent White advertisement in 2006 which got Cannes award for Best Ad.

He won another Cannes award for his performance in Missing (which received the Palme d'Or).

"Naked" is the dark, harrowing English film for which Mike Leigh won the Cannes award as best director and David Thewlis, its star, the best-actor prize.

He received the 1986 Cannes award as best director for the earlier film.

The actor is honest enough to admit that he got a kick out of rushing to the airport in a limo in time to pick up the Cannes award.