Ken Loach became only the eighth filmmaker to picked up the Palme d'Or for the second time on Sunday (22.05.16).
Ken Loach
Loach picked up the Cannes Film Festival's highest honour for his movie 'I, Daniel Blake', 10 years after he scooped the accolade for 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley'.
The film stars comedian Dave Johns and is a drama about a middle-aged widower in northern England who is left unable to work or get government assistance after suffering a heart attack.
Cannes' judges praised the depictions of the characters who "find themselves in no-man's land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of 'striver and skiver' in modern day Britain".
When he took to the stage, Ken slammed the "dangerous project of austerity" as he accepted the honour from Mel Gibson.
He said: "We must give a message of hope, we must say another world is possible..
"The world we live in is at a dangerous point right now. We are in the grip of a dangerous project of austerity driven by ideas that we call neo-liberalism that have brought us to near catastrophe."
The event's second biggest prize, the Grand Prix, went to Xavier Dolan's 'It's Only the End of the World', a melodrama given some of the worst reviews at this year's festival.
Other winners included 'American Honey' by Andrea Arnold, which won the Jury Prize, and Jaclyn Jose, who was named Best Actress for her role in corruption drama 'Ma' Rosa'.
Asghar Farhadi's 'The Salesman' scooped a rare double, picking up Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini.
The best director prize was shared between 'Graduation' director Christian Mungiu and Olivier Assayas for 'Personal Shopper'.
Cannes Film Festival 2016 list of winners:
Palme d'Or - 'I, Daniel Blake', dir. Ken Loach
Grand Prix - Xavier Dolan, 'It's Only The End Of The World'
Best Director - Cristian Mungiu, 'Graduation', and Olivier Assayas, 'Personal Shopper'
Best Screenplay - Asghar Farhadi, 'The Salesman'
Best Actress - Jaclyn Jose, 'Ma'Rosa'
Jury Prize - 'American Honey', dir. Andrea Arnold
Best Actor - Shahab Hosseini, 'The Salesman'
Palme d'Honneur - Jean-Pierre Léaud
Caméra d'Or - 'Divines', dir. Uda Benyamina
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