2009 Cannes Film Festival

62nd Cannes Film Festival
The poster shows a still from the film L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni.[1]
Opening filmUp
Closing filmCoco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or:
The White Ribbon
Hosted byÉdouard Baer
No. of films20 (Main Competition
Festival date13–24 May 2009
Websitefestival-cannes.com
Cannes Film Festival

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 May to 24 May 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert served as jury president for the main competition. Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film The White Ribbon.[2]

The festival opened with Up by Pete Docter,[3][4] marking the first time that an animated film opened the festival, and closed with Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky by Jan Kounen.[5]

American filmmaker Clint Eastwood became the second recipient of the Honorary Palme d'Or.[6]

  1. ^ "The Official 62nd Cannes Film Festival Poster". Cannes Film Festival. festival-cannes.com. 23 May 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  2. ^ "62ème Festival de Cannes". cinema-francais.fr. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Out of Competition - Opening Film - Up". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Up To Open Festival". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  5. ^ "Out of Competition - Closing Film - Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  6. ^ "A Honorary Palme at the opening ceremony of the Festival de Cannes". Archived from the original on 24 January 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2015.