Cannes 2012: the awards – in pictures

SHOCK: newlyweds Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Kylie Minogue (in fact he was president of the short film jury and she awarded the prize). The award itself went to Turkey's L Rezan Yesilbas for Sessiz-Be Deng (NOT A SHOCK) Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

NOT: Benh Zeitlin poses with the Camera d'Or award for first feature. Why no gasps? Beasts of the Southern Wild has already won the Grand Prix at Sundance, so not honouring it here would have been a major slap in the face Photograph: Lionel Cironneau/AP

NOT: Mads Mikkelsen with his best actor award for The Hunt. Mikkelsen picks up extra points for sensitive thesping in a difficult part (a man falsely accused of paedophilia) and for being in Thomas Vinterberg's first film at Cannes (The Hunt) since Festen Photograph: ERIC GAILLARD/Reuters

SHOCK: Best actress award joint winners Cosmina Stratan and Cristina Flutur for Beyond the Hills. A surprise just because it was an absolutely rammed playing field, but because sharing prizes is unusual, they're newcomers, the film divided critics, and … Photograph: ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS

… director Cristian Mungiu had already picked up the best screenplay prize. Cannes generally frowns on lavishing gongs on one film, ever since Haneke's The Piano Teacher swept the board at the start of the noughties Photograph: VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images

HAPPY SHOCK: Ken Loach won Jury (ie third) prize for The Angels's Share. Cannes loves Loach, and the film apparently had jurors in stitches but, still, this was not predicted Photograph: VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images

SHOCK: Matteo Garrone's reality TV satire Reality went down lukewarm. Yet the jury still gave it the Grand Prix (ie second prize) Photograph: Francois Mori/AP

SHOCK: Much as one might have a soft spot for Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas, he was not expected to win best director for experimental family drama Post Tenebras Lux Photograph: VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images

NOT: Frock aside, the presence on the Cannes carpet Diane Kruger is small surprise. This year, she's on the jury; three back and she hosted the awards (in 2012, Artist star Bérénice Bejo was MC) Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

NOT: Michael Haneke, Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant with Amour's Palme d'Or. The lady on the right sums up critical response to Haneke's film Photograph: YVES HERMAN/REUTERS