The 63rd annual
Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 2010, in
Cannes, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the festival; films screened in competition compete for the
Palme d'Or award. The award in 2010 was won by
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a
Thai film directed by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This was determined by the festival's jury members who reviewed films screened in competition. American
film director Tim Burton was the president of the jury for the international competition, and other members of the jury for that competition included actors, screenwriters and composers, such as
Kate Beckinsale,
Emmanuel Carrère,
Benicio del Toro, and
Alexandre Desplat. Other categories for films screened in competition that have their own separate juries for other awards are for
Short Films and the
Un Certain Regard category.
Ridley Scott's
Robin Hood opened the festival and Julie Bertuccelli's
The Tree was the closing film. The full film lineup for the festival was announced on 15 April 2010.