Spike Lee Transfixed by Soccer and Salma Hayek Honored at Kering Women in Motion Dinner in Cannes

Spike Lee has apologized after slipping up and announcing the top winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival. On Saturday, the director announced that had won the 2021 Palme d'Or, but he was supposed to reveal a different prize winner instead. «I have no excuses.

The awards ceremony for the 74th Cannes Film Festival has started where it should have ended, with jury president Spike Lee mistakenly announcing that the serial killer odyssey Titane has won the festival's top honour, the Palme d'Or. If confirmed at the end of the show, it would make French director Julia Ducournau only the second female filmmaker to win the accolade.

by announcing the Palme d’Or winner early.The Da 5 Bloods director, who was head of this year’s jury, accidentally revealed Titane as the winner of the festival’s top prize midway through the ceremony last night (July 17) instead of at the end.He said in a press conference [via Deadline] that he “was very specific to speak to the people of Cannes and tell them that I apologise” but they told him to “forget about it”.“I have no excuses. I messed up.

Julia Ducournau's "Titane," a wild body-horror thriller featuring sex with a car and a surprisingly tender heart, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making Ducournau just the second female filmmaker to win the festival’s top honor in its 74 year history. The win on Saturday was mistakenly announced by jury president Spike Lee at the top of the closing ceremony, broadcast in France on Canal+, unleashing a few moments of confusion.

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It’s a wrap for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but the closing ceremony did not go as planned thanks to jury president Spike Lee.

Cannes jury president Spike Lee said he “messed up, simple as that” after accidentally revealing the Palme d’Or winner, Titane, early during tonight’s awards ceremony.

It’s a wrap for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but the closing ceremony did not go as planned thanks to jury president Spike Lee.

The 74th Cannes Film Festival came to an end on Saturday night. It was a sweaty fest full of tourists more interested in the beach than the world premieres and lots of spitting in testing vials for non-Europeans, but it proved that a major festival could return at full capacity during the age of COVID.

Cannes Film Fesitval’s jury president Spike Lee appeared to inadvertently lift the lid on this year’s Palme d’Or winner – naming Julia Ducournau’s Titane – after a mix-up early in tonight’s closing awards ceremony. Watch the moment further down this page.

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Academy Awards, too. Only one female filmmaker has ever won Cannes top award (Jane Campion for “The Piano”), so a win for Ducournau or Mia Hansen-Løve ("Berman Island") would be history making.

Spike Lee has never been one to shy away from directing and appearing in a commercial. Back in the ‘80s, you had Lee show up with Michael Jordan to direct the iconic black and white commercials for Nike.

Naman Ramachandran Two days after Italy defeated England on penalties in the Euro 2020 soccer championship final, followed by England fans heaping racist online abuse on Black players from the team, the topic continues to reverberate at the Cannes Film Festival.Cannes virtually shut down on Sunday evening while the final was on, with even Spike Lee getting in on the action at the Kering Women in Motion dinner.

Salma Hayek has hit the Cannes Film Festival and left fans laughing as she shared a silly candid snap.In the picture posted on Instagram the wind had caught her hair and left it lying across her face."Mustache courtesy of the wind in Cannes," she joked, and fans were quick to share their love, with many leaving emojis of the laughing-crying face.MORE: Salma Hayek's tattooed body in tight white vest leaves fans stunnedVIDEO: Salma Hayek reveals exciting news in plunging pink outfitOthers added to

Salma Hayek has never looked better! The 54-year-old actress appeared in a sweet snapshot shared on Instagram this week as she attended a major fashion event – and her flawless appearance had fans doing a double-take.Mom Salma posed alongside her beloved husband Francois-Henri Pinault for a photo captured by Suzy Menkes.

Spike Lee has hit out at world leaders at the Cannes film festival.The director, who is the president of the jury that will pick the winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, criticised former US President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro when asked about anti-LGBT laws in Georgia at a press conference (via The Guardian).“This world is run by gangsters: Agent Orange [Donald Trump], there’s a guy in Brazil and Putin,” he said.“That’s it: they’re gangsters.

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CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for the first time in more than two years on Tuesday, launching the French Riviera spectacular with the introduction of Spike Lee's jury, the premiere of Leos Carax's “Annette” and high hopes of shrugging off the pandemic and a punishing year for movies. The 74th Cannes opened Tuesday with as much glitz as it could summon.

The 74th Cannes Film Festival kicked off in earnest this evening as big names came out to support the event that’s just getting back to business after last year’s cancellation and this year’s delays. Assembled together, 2019 Oscar and Palme d’Or winner Bong Joon-ho, Cannes veteran Pedro Almodovar, Jury President Spike Lee and tonight’s honorary Palme d’Or recipient Jodie Foster paid tribute to the event and officially opened the 2021 proceedings in a mix of Korean, Spanish, English and French.