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CANNES, France (AFP) - Tales of love, mobsters, an exorcism gone wrong and a wacky shape-shifter were hot favourites for the Palme d'Or as the Cannes festival jury hunkered down ahead of Sunday night's award ceremony.

CANNES, France (AFP) - Tales of love, mobsters, an exorcism gone wrong and a wacky shape-shifter were hot favourites for the Palme d'Or as the Cannes festival jury hunkered down ahead of Sunday night's award ceremony.

CANNES, France, May 28 (UPI) -- Austrian director Michael Haneke's film "Amour" won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, officials said.

CANNES, France - The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favourite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, "Amour."

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Critics lauded the Cannes film festival jury on Monday for awarding director Michael Haneke's "Love" (Amour) the coveted Palme d'Or for best picture, justifying its status as favorite going into Sunday night's awards ceremony. The Austrian has now won the top prize at the world's biggest cinema showcase twice, joining a small elite of multiple winners and cementing his ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Critics lauded the Cannes film festival jury on Monday for awarding director Michael Haneke's "Love" (Amour) the coveted Palme d'Or for best picture, justifying its status as favourite going into Sunday night's awards ceremony. The Austrian has now won the top prize at the world's biggest cinema showcase twice, joining a small elite of multiple winners and cementing ...

CANNES, France - Love is in the air at the Cannes Film Festival, as the jury sits down Sunday to choose its prizewinners.

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Austrian director Michael Haneke was the popular winner of the Cannes film festival's top honor on Sunday with "Love" (Amour), an elegiac tale of an elderly couple facing the inescapable, yet no less tragic march of death. Haneke joins an elite group of two-time winners of the coveted Palme d'Or at the world's biggest film festival after his "The White Ribbon" won in ...

Actors Audrey Tautou and Emmanuelle Riva join director Michael Haneke with the Palme d'Or award for “Amour,” and actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Adrien Brody on Sunday during the awards ceremony at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France.

The Austrian director Michael Haneke won the Palme d’Or at the 65th Cannes Film Festival on Sunday for “Amour,” a story of love and death focusing on an elderly Parisian couple.