2011 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Tree of Life and Le Havre Tied for Palme D’Or Predictions

With 14 of 16 members in our 2011 Critics’ Panel voting, we naturally had to come to a gridlock. We have a two way tie with four votes apiece for The Tree of Life and Le Havre winning the Palme D’Or and in second place we have Pedro with three votes apiece for The Skin I Live In. We have one vote for The Artist, one for The Kid With a Bike and one person voted for Drive — which must have crazy Vegas odds. I asked our 2011 panel to submit their winner predictions for the top three prizes and if they wanted to add anything further then we’d mention them as well. We’ll have this on a grid shortly, but here is how we voted.

Christophe Beney
Palme d’Or: The Kid with the Bike
Grand Prix: This Must Be the Place
Jury Prize: The Tree Of Life

David Calhoun
Palme d’Or: Le Havre
Grand Prix: The Artist
Jury Prize: Drive

Per Juul Carlsen (Did not vote)

Paola Casella
Palme d’Or: La piel que habito*
Grand Prix: No Vote
Jury Prize: Le Havre*
Best Director: The Tree of Life
Best Screenplay: Footnote
Best Actor: Tie Sean Penn and Michel Dujardin
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton

Andrei Cretulescu
Palme d’Or: La Piel Que Habito
Grand Prix: The Tree of Life
Jury Prize: Le Havre
Best Director: The Artist
Best Screenplay: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Best Actor: This Must Be The Place
Best Actress: The Kid With The Bike

Carlos F. Heredero
Palme d’Or: The Tree of Life
Grand Prix: Le Havre
Jury Prize: The Kid With The Bike

Eric Lavallee
Palme d’Or: The Tree of Life
Grand Prix: The Kid with the Bike
Jury Prize: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Best Director: Drive 
Best Screenplay: Maïwenn (Polisse)
Best Actor: Andre Wilms 
Best Actress: Kirsten Dunst

Fabien Lemercier
Palme d’Or: The Tree of Life
Grand Prix: La Piel que habito
Jury Prize: Drive
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Best Screenplay: Maïwenn (Polisse)
Best Actor: Sean Penn (This Must Be the Place)
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

Guy Lodge
Palme d’Or: Drive
Grand Prix: Le Havre
Jury Prize: This Must be the Place

Elisabeth Quin
Palme d’Or: Le Havre
Grand Prix: Melancholia
Jury Prize: No Mention
Best Director: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Best Screenplay: La Piel que habito
Best Actor: Sean Penn
Best Actress: Kirsten Dunst
Special Jury Prize: Alain Cavalier and Vincent Lindon

Isabelle Regnier
Palme d’Or: The Tree of Life
Grand Prix: The Artist
Jury Prize: La Piel que habito
Best Director: Drive
Best Screenplay: The Kid with a Bike
Best Actor: Habemus Papam
Best Actress: We Need to Talk About Kevin

James Rocchi (Did not vote)

Cedric Succivalli
Palme d’Or: La Piel que habito
Grand Prix: Drive
Jury Prize: (Tie) Le Havre and The Artist
Best Director: The Tree of Life
Best Screenplay: The Kid with a Bike
Best Actor: Habemus Papam
Best Actress: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Special 64th Anniversary Prize: Pater

Anne Thompson
Palme d’Or: Le Havre
Grand Prix: The Tree of Life
Jury Prize: Drive
Best Director: No Mention
Best Screenplay: Footnote
Best Actor: The Artist
Best Actress: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Clarence Tsui
Palme d’Or: The Artist
Grand Prix: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Jury Prize: Le Havre
Best Director: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Best Screenplay: No mention
Best Actor: The Kid with a Bike
Best Actress: Female cast from The Source

Eduardo Valente
Palme d’Or: Le Havre
Grand Prix: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Jury Prize: The Artist
Best Director: Drive
Best Screenplay: The Kid With a Bike
Best Actor: Michael
Best Actress: Female cast of L’apollonide