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CANNES, author (AFP) – 1755 GMT: AND THE PALME D'OR ... goes to "The histrion of Life".

1747 GMT: AND THE BEST DIRECTOR honor goes to ... Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn for his high-octane flick noir "Drive" starring Ryan Gosling as a stuntman who moonlights as a getaway automobile driver.

1746 GMT: AND THE BEST ACTOR honor goes to... Jean Dujardin for his role as a silent flick grapheme struggling to deal with the transition to the talkies in "The Artist."

So the digit top performing awards go to land thesps. Not unexpected.

1745 GMT: They are reaching thick and alacritous now. Best Screenplay? It goes to Asiatic film-maker Joseph Cedar for "Footnote" most the rivalry between a father-son unify of Talmudic scholars.

Cedar, 42, who won an Oscar oratory for his 2007 flick "Beaufort" most the Asiatic army's withdrawal from gray Lebanon, is not in municipality to accept the accolade today.

1740 GMT: AND IT'S KIRSTEN DUNST - the US actress being worthy for her acting of a depressed woman at the modify of the concern in Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia'.

Von Trier is obviously not in the auditorium to wager this, mass the disceptation over his earlier advise word jokes most Hitler.

1735 GMT: Now the prizewinning actress award...

1730 GMT: POLISSE, a gritty flick from land actress-director Maiwenn most a tightly-bound but highly-strung female protection organisation in Paris, gets the primary Jury Prize.

"I promised my girl not to scream when I received the prize," a swimming Maiwenn says, appearing a lowercase discover of breath and very emotional, as she invites the patch and shaper on stage.

In the auditorium, it's a favourite award.

1726 GMT: De Niro starts soured in French, telling the audience it was a "grande et belle experience". "Nous avons essaye le prizewinning we could," he adds, his sortie into land chase off.

1725 GMT: Jury President parliamentarian De Niro arrives on the initiate and presents the jury, digit by one. Cue standing ovation from the auditorium, with Uma Thurman and Jude Law success most applause.

Do they undergo when to applaud, these guys?

1720 GMT: And the prototypal honor - and it goes to Maryna Vroda for her short: Cross Country.

1715 GMT: THE CEREMONY BEGINS.

1714 GMT: Meanwhile, some more directors hit arrived. They include Michel Hazanavicius ("The Artist"), Maiwenn who I mentioned before ("Poliss") and Nicolas Winding Refn ("Drive").

Not seen of instruction was Lars Von Trier ("Melancholia"), famously declared persona non grata, and Terrence Malick ("The histrion of Life"), famously enigmatic.

1712 GMT: One of those who is not here - I am told - is Tilda Swinton, appointed for her awful performance in "We need to talk most Kevin". What does she know?

1710 GMT: Inside the auditorium, the serendipitous invitees to the approaching start are milling around. A colossus concealment has been set up to ready them up to date, showing the stylish arrivals, who include Kirsten Dunst, among others.

1659 GMT: And after them, the Dardenne brothers arrive, attended by the European actress Cecile de France, and the young grapheme Thomas Doret, mounting the steps on the red carpet.

1649 GMT: Also arrived today is Maiwenn whose prototypal flick Poliss was much talked most here.

Right today she is mingling blithely with the gathering of onlookers, language authographs, resplendid in a redness red off-the-shoulder gown

1646 GMT: The commission has arrived, led by a bleary-eyed parliamentarian De Niro.

"I conceive we did the prizewinning that we could do," said the commission president on the way into the awards ceremony. "It's arduous when there are so some choices... We had to conceive our way finished them."

1645 GMT: One of those who has arrived: European producer Luc Dardenne arrived with his brother Jean-Pierre and the stars of their film, "The Kid on a Bike".

He said he got a call this farewell asking them to movement pronto to Cannes -- usually a sign that a accolade is imminent.

1643 GMT: There's a bounteous gathering discover on a warm summer-like daytime in front of the Palais, where rumours hit been swirling every day.

One of the questions is the suspense close Terrence Malick, the uncomprehensible administrator of "The histrion of Life". He's a very publicity-shy gentleman. Win or lose, module he turn up tonight?

1635 GMT: At the moment, the stars are starting to arrive, with a lowercase more than half an distance to go before the Gala gets under way. It is just past 6.30 in the daytime here, and the ceremonies begin at 7.15 p.m.

WELCOME TO CANNES, and AFP's springy report on the test period of the flick festival. The awards start starts in inferior than an hour, with no country favourite to win the top accolade - the Palme d'Or.

With perhaps fivesome or sextet films still intellection in with a chance, the invented films include the much-anticipated stylish impact of uncomprehensible US administrator Terrence Malick, a coming-of-age tale "The histrion of Life" starring, for the prototypal time together, Brad playwright and Sean Penn.

But European brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are also hoping for a record third Palme d'Or for "The Kid With a Bike," an uplifting semblance of an forsaken 11-year-old boy and the woman unerect on action him.

And still in the running, despite a disturbance over agitating remarks most Hitler, is Danish contender Lars von Trier's prophetic psychodrama "Melancholia".

All told, an engrossing daytime awaits for flick lovers. Stay with us as the start gets under way in a while.

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