First let me say to the esteemed jury of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, picking Ken Loach's moving and vital I, Daniel Blake, about a carpenter fighting to retain his benefits after losing his livelihood because of a debilitating health crisis, was an ...

BBC Films head Christine Langan calls it a "stunning tribute to one of our most humane filmmakers." A year after the British film industry bemoaned its absence from the Cannes film festival's official selection, one of its most celebrated directors ...

Trying to predict the winners of the annual Cannes Film Festival is a bit of a fool's errand. After all, the awards are decided upon by a small group of artists and industry professionals with their own tastes and priorities; it's anyone's guess what ...

Two years ago he suggested he would be retiring from film-making, but instead 79-year-old director Ken Loach has won the coveted Palme D'Or award for the second time at the Cannes Film Festival. The winning film, I Daniel Blake, marks the 13th time ...

When Mel Gibson presented the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or to director Ken Loach on Sunday for “I, Daniel Blake,” some insiders bristled. In 2006, after Loach won the same award for “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” the director called for a ...

With the Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'or award being handed to director Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, there has been a bit of an uproar over the film's surprise upset over what some have called a weak field. Though we really have to ask ourselves, how ...

In a “Feel the Bern” upset more befitting the American election cycle, Ken Loach's health-care melodrama I, Daniel Blake won the Palme d'Or, the second time the socialist director has won Cannes' top prize after nabbing it ten years ago for The Wind ...

Stars descended on Cannes, France for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival this month, breaking out their red-carpet finest for the glam celebration. While some looks were chic perfection, others fell short, taking fashion a step too far or missing the memo ...

The 69th annual Cannes Film Festival just wrapped up overseas with Ken Loach's film I, Daniel Blake taking home the coveted Palme d'Or, the top prize from the French cinema exhibition. However, there have been plenty of other films from Cannes that ...

Director Ken Loach, centre, actor Mel Gibson, left and President of the Jury George Miller react after Roach is awarded the Palme d'or for the film I, Daniel Blake, during the awards ceremony at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern ...

Ken Loach has directed over 50 movies and his most recent one, I, Daniel Blake, was recently recognized at the Cannes Film Festival with the Palme d'Or award. This isn't Loach's first time winning the coveted award, however. Exactly 10 years ago, he ...

La fin! Cannes Film Festival 2016 jury members Kirsten Dunst and Vanessa Paradis were French Riviera–fabulous throughout the two-week event, and they both ended their couture carpet parade with a bang on Sunday, May 22. Watch today's Red Carpet ...

Ken Loach's new film I, Daniel Blake, which has just earned him his second Palme d'Or at Cannes, tells the story of a middle-aged man and a single mother struggling with Britain's modern welfare system. Like many of his other films it's a story of ...

Over the course of the Cannes Film Festival's two weeks, the biggest movie stars from across the globe descended on the red carpet, competing for the spotlight. Hundreds of looks, including those from designers like Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, ...

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In this Aug. 30, 2015, file photo, Justin Bieber arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. Comments; aAFont Size. Director Ken Loach poses for photographers with the Palme d'Or for his film I, Daniel Blake during the photo call following ...

British Ken Loach poses after he was awarded the Palme d'Or for the film "I, Daniel Blake". Photo: AFP/Getty Cannes Film Festival jury members and actors Vanessa Paradis, Donald Sutherland, and Kirsten Dunst on the red carpet ahead of the closing ...

George Miller, president of the Cannes Film Festival jury, fourth from right, poses with jury members, from left, Arnaud Desplechin, Kirsten Dunst, Laszio Nemes, Vanessa Paradis, Donald Sutherland, Katayoon Shahabi, Mads Mikkelsen and Valeria Golino.

Director Ken Loach, Palme dOr award winner for his film "I, Daniel Blake", reacts during the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 22, 2016. (Reuters). 26; 0; 0; 26. alt Meena Karnik | Mon, 23 May 2016-05:57pm , dna ...

Several films with strong social messages won award at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. After receiving his Golden Palm trophy UK director Ken Loach said “the world we live in is a danger point of despair.” Loach lashed out against neoliberalism and said ...

CANNES, France — The Cannes International Film Festival presented its gala awards Sunday, with British director Ken Loach taking the top honors, the Palme d'Or, for his film I, Daniel Blake. But the Sunday celebration was more than a victory for Loach ...

She's modelled for Chanel and Miu Miu and graced the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. And on Sunday evening actress and singer Vanessa Paradis reminded the world why when she took to the stage at the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film ...

Ken Loach won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his latest film I, Daniel Blake. It is the second time the veteran British filmmaker has clinched the prestigious prize, but the subject of his film is a world away from the glitzy red ...

CANNES, France British veteran director Ken Loach won his second Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival when "I, Daniel Blake", his latest social-realist drama, took the Best Picture award on Sunday. Loach, 79, is one of only nine directors to have won ...