Britain's Timothy Spall claimed the best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival Saturday for his role in a lush historical portrait of painter JMW Turner, by director Mike Leigh.

The 57-year-old portrayed the man credited with blazing a trail for modern art in the early 19th century in a grunting, snorting, spitting, womanizing, warts-and-all performance that critics hailed as riveting.

Bennett Miller scooped up the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival Saturday for "Foxcatcher", a film based on the real-life murder of an Olympic wrestler by multi-millionaire John du Pont.

The 47-year-old's third feature film had critics raving and viewers were left particularly stunned by Steve Carell, whose performance as the deranged, sinister du Pont marked a complete turnaround from his previous funny man roles.

Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the Palme d'Or top prize at the Cannes Film Festival Saturday for "Winter Sleep", a slow-burn domestic drama that mesmerized audiences despite its more than three-hour length.

Jury president Jane Campion, the New Zealand filmmaker, handed over the trophy to Ceylan, who beat out 17 other contenders including David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc Godard and the Oscar-winning director of "The Artist", Michel Hazanavicius, to claim top honors.

Julianne Moore won the best actress prize at the 67th Cannes Film Festival Saturday for her role as a shallow starlet in Canadian director David Cronenberg's biting Hollywood satire "Maps to the Stars".

In the film, the 53-year-old redhead plays an ageing actress feeling increasingly sidelined by an industry obsessed with youth.

The Associated Press is all over the Cannes Film Festival — from its glitzy premieres to the celeb parties and quirky moments in between. Here's what reporters have seen and heard:

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Miley Cyrus obtained a temporary restraining order Friday against an Arizona man who was recently detained by police while trying to meet the singer-actress.

A Los Angeles judge granted Cyrus the stay-away order against Devon Meek after Cyrus' lawyers filed court documents stating that Meek, 24, believes the singer is communicating to him through her songs.

The prince and princess of celebrity, Kanye West and his bride-to-be Kim Kardashian, on Friday kicked off their marathon wedding celebrations with a period costume party in Versailles before flying on to Florence.

With her hair pulled back in a bun and sporting a white dress with a plunging neckline, the 33-year-old reality TV star pulled up at the chateau that was once home to the "Sun King" Louis XIV and his queen Marie Antoinette, accompanied by her rapper beau.

The 67th Cannes Film Festival awards its top prizes Saturday with a Canadian prodigy, a Russian corruption critic, Belgian brothers, a Turkish husband-and-wife team and a British veteran tipped for glory.

Eighteen contenders are in the running for the coveted Palme d'Or gong for best picture, but unlike previous races, no obvious winner emerged during the 12-day event in this French Riviera resort.

Canadian federal police said Thursday they hope to investigate actress Pamela Anderson's recent allegations of childhood rape, and have reached out to her for details.

Anderson alleged at a press conference in Cannes, France last Friday that she had been sexually abused while growing up on Vancouver Island in westernmost Canada from the age of six until her teens at the hands of a babysitter, a boyfriend and others.

Disgraced British fashion designer John Galliano, little-seen since being sacked by Dior in 2011 for making drunken racist tirades, reappeared in Moscow Thursday as creative director of a Russian cosmetics chain.

The L'Etoile chain, which has some 850 branches in more than 250 Russian towns, did not skimp on the event which took place in one of the most exclusive Moscow suburbs.