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Michael Moore became the first documentary maker since Jacques Cousteau to win the top prize at Cannes.

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The best actress award went to Maggie Cheung from Hong Kong for her performance as a junkie in the film Clean.

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Israeli director Keren Yedeya's Or, the story of a prostitute mother and her daughter living in Tel Aviv, won her the Camera d'Or prize for best film-making debut.

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Yagira Yuuya, a 14-year-old Japanese boy, was named best actor for his role in the film Nobody Knows, but the award was collected in his absence by director Hirokazu Koreeda.

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Algerian-born French film-maker Tony Gatlif won the director's award for Exiles, his road-trip movie about a couple on a journey from France to Algeria.

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Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino fulfilled a long-held dream of chairing the jury at the Cannes film festival.

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The Jury Prize went to the Thai film Tropical Malady, accepted by director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and actor Sakda Kaewbuadee.