Picture gallery: Palme d'Or night

BBC News Online captures the 54th Cannes award ceremony in pictures. .

Always a red carpet for the Cannes glitterati

Nanni Moretti receives the Palme d'Or from Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith

Nanni Moretti also stars as Giovanni in The Son's Room with actress Laura Morante

Austrian Michael Haneke won the Grand Jury Prize for The Piano Teacher

French pair Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel took best actress and actor for the same film

Inuit director Zacharias Kunuk, centre, took the Golden Camera Prize for his film The Fast Runner

While US director David Lynch shared the best director prize for Mulholland Drive with Joel Coen