Up-and-coming Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos won the third-place Prix du Jury (jury prize) at the Cannes Film Festival for the “The Lobster”, his first English-language film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.

The top Palme d’Or award went to Jacques Audiard’s immigrant drama Dheepan in what international media described as a “shocker”.

The runner-up prize was Son of Saul, a grim Hungarian Holocaust drama by first-time director László Nemes.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, a Taiwanese filmmaker, won best director for The Assassin, a martial arts tale.

The best actress prize was split between Rooney Mara of Todd Haynes’ 1950s … lesbian drama Carol, and Emmanuelle Bercot, the French star of the roller coaster marriage drama My King.