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 CANNES, France (AP) - It was a big year for male actors at the Cannes Film Festival, where the plum roles included Peter Pans and Don Juans, cowboys and Jedi masters, doting dads and menacing mobsters.
On Saturday, the festival honored Tommy Lee Jones as best actor for "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," his feature-film directing debut in which he plays a Texas ranch hand who forces his best friend's killer (Barry Pepper) to dig up the body and haul it for reburial in Mexico. The film also won the screenplay award for Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga.
Belgian film "The Child," about a young petty crook suddenly faced with the responsibilities of fatherhood, won top honors. It was the second time a movie by sibling filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the prestigious Palme d'Or. Their teen drama "Rosetta" took the main Cannes prize six years ago.
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