Winter Sleep, a film by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, has been named the winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Julianne Moore won a Best Actress prize for Maps to the Stars, while Mr. Turner star Timothy Spall was named Best Actor.

Bennett Miller won Best Director for his film Foxcatcher starring Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, and Steve Carell.

Mommy by Xavier Dolan and Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Goddard both won the jury prize.

Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, who were on hand the celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pulp Fiction, were among the stars at the festival's awards ceremony.

This year's Cannes jury was headed by Jane Campion and included Willem Dafoe, Gael Garcia Bernal, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Sofia Coppola.