50 Never-Before-Seen Portraits From Cannes (Exclusive Photos)

Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin

The director of The Great Gatsby and his wife of 16 years (who served as production designer and costume designer on the film) were photographed at the Carlton hotel. The Great Gatsby served as the opening film for the fest.

VIDEO: Live from Cannes: Baz Luhrmann on 'Gatsby's' Festival Opening

'Fruitvale Station'

From left: Director Ryan Coogler and castmembers Octavia Spencer, Michael B. Jordan and Melonie Diaz were photographed at the Gray d’Albion Residences. The film, which looks at the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant (Jordan) by Oakland, Calif., police, won the Avenir Prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Says Spencer of the film’s message: “You want to be the impetus of a much-needed discourse about our humanity and how we interact with each other.”

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: 'Fruitvale Station' Cast at the Fest

Melonie Diaz

Melonie Diaz plays Sophina, Oscar Grant's (Michael B. Jordan) girlfriend in Fruitvale Station.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: 'Fruitvale Station' Cast at the Fest

Octavia Spencer

“I wanted people to see that she was a mom who lost her son, and her son mattered,” Octavia Spencer tells THR about her role in Fruitvale Station.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: 'Fruitvale Station' Cast at the Fest

Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan plays Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who was shot and killed by a BART police officer.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: 'Fruitvale Station' Cast at the Fest

Ryan Coogler

Ryan Coogler, 26, wrote and directed Fruitvale Station, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at Sundance.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: 'Fruitvale Station' Cast at the Fest

Lars Ulrich

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich spoke to THR from a yacht at the Cannes Film Festival. "It's primarily a film, it's not about a tour," he said about his 3D film.

VIDEO: Live from Cannes: Lars Ulrich on Metallica: Through the Never’

Robin Wright

Robin Wright plays herself in The Congress, a film about show business and actors and how the shelf-life of performers could be made unlimited.

Tahar Rahim

Tahar Rahim plays a a 31-year-old man who is struggling to make ends meet in Rebecca Zlotowski's drama Grand Central.

Jasmine Trinca

Italian actress Jasmine Trinca stars in Honey (Miele), which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the fest.

Marine Vacth

The 23-year-old French actress, photographed at Terrasse Mouton Cadet, turned heads and tricks in Francois Ozon’s competition entry Young & Beautiful, as a schoolgirl who becomes a prostitute.

Berenice Bejo

The French-Argentinian actress won this year’s best actress Palme d’Or for her role in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past (his follow-up to the Oscar-winning A Separation). Bejo was photographed at JW Marriott’s Bulgari Terrace.

Asghar Farhadi

When asked by THR about his film, The Past, possibly becoming an Oscar contender, Asghar Farhadi said, "I try to avoid thinking about it. Not that it is not important. I think every human being in the world appreciates being encouraged and acknowledged. But I try not to have any expectations."

VIDEO: Cannes: 'The Past' Director Asghar Farhadi on Censorship in Iran, Future Projects

Francis Lawrence

Francis Lawrence was in Cannes to promote The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to international buyers. The sequel to The Hunger Games will see the return of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, the strong-willed girl who won the deadly games in the first installment.

Fan Bingbing

Chinese actress Fan Bingbing didn't let wet weather dampen her spirits at a cocktail party in her honor hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, Jimmy Choo and Mouton Cadet at the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez where the star and global style icon was presented with THR's first-ever International Artist of the Year award.  "It's every girl's dream to wear these designer clothes," she added. "But even though I love fashion, the most important thing to me is my acting career."

VIDEO: Cannes: THR and Jimmy Choo Honor Fan Bingbing at Martinez Fete

'Ain't Them Bodies Saints'

From left: Director David Lowery and his stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck were photographed at the Carlton. Their atmospheric crime drama screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, David Lowery on ‘Ain't Them Bodies Saints’

Jerry Weintraub

Behind the Candelabra executive producer Jerry Weintraub tells THR: "I think TV is far better than it's ever been." The film, which premiered at Cannes in competition, played on HBO.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Jerry Weintraub 'Behind the Candelabra'

Behind the Candelabra

From left: Matt Damon, Michael Douglas and Jerry Weintraub. The stars and producer of competition entry Behind the Candelabra, directed by Steven Soderbergh, were photographed at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Jerry Weintraub 'Behind the Candelabra'

Matt Damon

Matt Damon tells THR: "Everybody took their jobs so seriously. We respected the lives that we were portraying."

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Jerry Weintraub 'Behind the Candelabra'

Olivia Williams

Olivia Williams, who stars in sci-fi psychological thriller The Last Days on Mars, says of her character: "She's as unpopular as most women in history who turn out to be right."

VIDEO: Cannes: 'Last Days on Mars' Director and Olivia Williams on Making the Mars Sci-Fi Thriller

Julia Garner

Julia Garner, who stars in We are What We Are, spoke to THR about having to eat turkey with corn syrup during the filming of Jim Mickle's chiller.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: The Stars and Director of Cannibal Movie 'We Are What We Are'

Alain Fabien Delon

Alain Fabien Delon stars in You and the Night (Les Rencontres d’apres minuit), which premiered in Critics' Week.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: The Cast and Crew of 'You and the Night'

Eric Cantona

Eric Cantona stars in You and the Night,  Yann Gonzalez's film about a young couple who prepare for an orgy

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: The Cast and Crew of 'You and the Night'

Johnnie To

Director and producer Johnnie To spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his film, Blind Detective, featuring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng. He calls the film "a love story."

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Johnnie To on 'Blind Detective'

Dita Von Teese

The burlesque star (in Dolce & Gabbana) was photographed at the Club Les Marches at the Palais des Festivals. Von Teese attended the festival as a Cointreau ambassador and performed May 20 at Nikki Beach.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Dita Von Teese on the Festival Experience

Adam Bakri

Adam Bakri stars in Omar, a film with a strong storyline about the West Bank and its endless cycle of violence.

Waleed Zuaiter

Waleed Zuaiter plays prison warden Rami in Omar, which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize.

Hany Abu-Assad

The Dutch-Palestinian director of Omar, which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, was photographed at Majestic Beach. “I don’t think it’s our job as filmmakers to bring people together,” he says. “You just try to make people more open to other situations.”

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: 'Omar' Director Hany Abu-Assad

Beatrice Dalle

Beatrice Dalle stars in You and the Night (Les Rencontres d’apres minuit).

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: The Cast and Crew of 'You and the Night'

Yann Gonzalez

French filmmaker Yann Gonzalez's debut premiered out of competition in Cannes' Critics' Week sidebar.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: The Cast and Crew of 'You and the Night'

James Franco

James Franco spoke to THR about his adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel about an impoverished Mississippi family. "Its essence is something that was relevant 80 years ago and is relevant today and was relevant 2,000 years ago," he said. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: James Franco on 'As I Lay Dying'

James Toback, Alec Baldwin

Seduced and Abandoned director Toback and the film’s producer and star, Baldwin, were photographed at the Terrasse du Palais des Festivals. “It definitely wasn’t the plan to premiere at Cannes,” says Baldwin. “It was a hope!”

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Alec Baldwin and James Toback on 'Seduced and Abandoned'

Alec Baldwin

Baldwin and Toback filmed their movie at the 2012 fest, and returned to screen it out of competition at the 2013 festival.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Alec Baldwin and James Toback on 'Seduced and Abandoned'

Stephen Frears

Stephen Frears' film Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight premiered at Cannes and is being released via cable television.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Stephen Frears on 'Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight'

Juno Temple

In Magic Magic, Juno Temple plays a young woman who becomes increasingly disturbed after traveling to a remote part of Chile with some people she does not know.

VIDEO: Cannes: 'Magic Magic' Stars Juno Temple, Michael Cera on Culture Shock in Chile

Michael Cera

Michael Cera, who co-stars with Temple in Magic Magic, learned Chilean Spanish for his role. "I went and lived with Sebastian's family for a few months, which was a pleasure," Cera tells THR, "just studying there and practicing with them, and getting weirder and weirder."

VIDEO: Cannes: 'Magic Magic' Stars Juno Temple, Michael Cera on Culture Shock in Chile

Kristin Scott Thomas

“The physical transformation was such a blast,” says the actress of her “out there, blond” character, Crystal, in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives. Scott Thomas was photographed at the JW Marriott’s Bulgari Terrace.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Kristin Scott Thomas 'Only God Forgives'

Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn's dark thriller Only God Forgives premiered in competition. "In a way I found pure evil through the womb of a woman," he told THR.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Kristin Scott Thomas 'Only God Forgives'

Hiner Saleem

Director Hiner Saleem's drama My Sweet Pepper Land centers on the police commissioner in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region in Iraq.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: My Sweet Pepperland

Korkmaz Arslan

In My Sweet Pepper Land, Korkmaz Arslan plays a Kurdish independence war hero who becomes a sheriff in Erbil, the capital city.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: My Sweet Pepperland

Golshifteh Farahani

The female lead in My Sweet Pepper Land, Golshifteh Farahani, is an Iranian actress who lives in France. "I always play rebel women, strong women," she told THR.

ViDEO: Live From Cannes: My Sweet Pepperland

J.C. Chandor

J.C. Chandor, a best original screenplay Oscar nominee for Margin Call (2011), presented his film out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival. All Is Lost, which received a massive standing ovation at the Palais, stars Robert Redford as a man lost at sea. Chandor tells THR, "I wrote this script from an idea that was in my head. And that movie, almost frame by frame by frame, was the one that I made."

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: 'All Is Lost' Writer/Director J.C. Chandor

Bruce Dern

Actor Bruce Dern was awarded the best actor prize for his work in competition film Nebraska. In the black-and-white film, Dern plays a man who believes he has won $1 million from a lottery. He convinces his son (Will Forte) to drive him to the sweepstakes office to claim his prize.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: The Cast of Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska'

Will Forte

Will Forte takes on a dramatic role in Nebraska. "I thought I would never get to experience Cannes in my lifetime, so to be able to be part of this -- this movie and this whole experience -- every part of it is pretty magical," Forte told THR.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: The Cast of Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska'

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne's Nebraska received a warm standing ovation after it premiered in competition at Cannes. "Alexander is such a great director that he really was able to guide me along when I was being too big or too small, kind of put me in the right zone," said Forte of his director.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: The Cast of Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska'

James Gray

James Gray's The Immigrant, starring Jeremy Renner, Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix, premiered in competition at the fest. “The movie was written for Marion Cotillard, even though Marion Cotillard is French and not Polish, obviously,” the director told THR.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: James Gray on ‘The Immigrant’ and Working with Marion Cotillard

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton stars in Jim Jarmusch's vampire love story, Only Lovers Left Alive. "I suppose the thing about vampires is they're immortal, and what's not fascinating about immortality?" she said.

VIDEO: Live From Cannes: Tilda Swinton on 'Only Lovers Left Alive'

Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen starred in Michael Kohlhaas, a French-language adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's novella, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Zhang Ziyi

The Chinese actress, who served on the Un Certain Regard jury, was photographed at the Hotel Majestic Barriere before the premiere of Roman Polanski’s competition entry Venus in Fur.