French actor Jean Dujardin was crowned Best Actor at the 64th Cannes Film festival 2011 for his performance in The Artist directed by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius.
Cannes 2011 Best Actor Award
The Artist is a silent feature in black and white that recounts the declining destiny of a male silent film star and the rising popularity of an actress from the new wave of movies in Hollywood between 1927 and 1931 in the context of silent movies going out of fashion and talkies dominating the scene. In the romance film, Dujardin starred alongside young French talent Bérénice Bejo.
