Cannes film festival: The winners and the losers

Michael Haneke has won the Palme d'Or at the 62nd Cannes film festival for The White Ribbon. Though much acclaimed, there had been a feeling it might fall victim to Haneke's close association with jury president Isabelle Huppert, who has starred in two of his most recent films. But accusations of favouritism were evidently felt to be less pressing than the need to reward the film's clinical brilliance, and a director who many felt was unfairly passed over for the top prize in 2005, with fraught thriller Hidden Photograph: Antonin Thuillier/AFP/Getty Images

The White Ribbon is a fascism parable set in a small German town just before the outbreak of the first world war. It features extreme acts of physical and psychological cruelty to animals, children and adults – business as usual for Haneke, then Photograph: PR

French director Jacques Audiard delivers what appears to be a dramatic acceptance speech after winning the Grand Prix award for his prison drama A Prophet. Antichrist star Willem Dafoe is perhaps mulling over losing out on the best actor prize to ... Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images

Austrian actor Christoph Waltz – in perhaps the biggest shock of the ceremony. Though many agreed he stole the show as sadistic SS Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, few would have imagined the jury would garland a film that many felt to be the biggest disappointment Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images

But Antichrist did not leave empty handed: Dafoe's co-star Charlotte Gainsbourg won best actress for her role as a grieving mother. The scene in which she performs a clitoridectomy on herself was for many the enduring image of this year's festival Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters

There was homegrown success, too, as Andrea Arnold scooped the Jury prize for Fish Tank, a dark drama starring man of the moment Michael Fassbender and new discovery Katie Jarvis, as illicit lovers. It's the same award Arnold won back in 2006, for CCTV thriller Red Road Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images

She shared the award with South Korean director Park Chan-Wook, whose film Thirst is an erotic horror about a priest who becomes a vampire after a botched medical experiment. He too has form at the festival, scooping the Grand Prix in 2003 for Oldboy Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images

Best director went to Brillante Mendoza, whose hitman movie Kinatay led what was this year touted as a new wave of Filipino cinema Photograph: Francois Durand/Getty Images

A rare Exceptional award went the way of New Wave director Alain Resnais, who at 86 delivered what many consider one of the best films of his career, Wild Grass Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images

But there was nothing for Britain's Ken Loach, whose Looking For Eric was the feelgood hit of the festival - for the audience, at least Photograph: Regis Duvignau/Reuters

Nor Jane Campion, whose Bright Star, about the relationship between John Keats and Fanny Brawne was an early front-runner Photograph: David Gadd/Sportsphoto/Allstar

And here she is, head judge Isabelle Huppert, footloose and carefree now her duties have been dispatched. Two seconds after this photo was taken she did the hokey-cokey Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP