FIRST POSITION Aspiring ballet dancers compete in the Youth American Grand Prix in a documentary directed by Bess Kargman.
Ecclestone also suggested the British government should back the grand prix with direct financial assistance.
Grand Prix: "120 Beats Per Minute," an AIDS drama directed by Robin Campillo.
"The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," directed by Cristi Puiu, won the Prix un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, a watershed moment in the current renaissance of Romanian cinema.
His production of George Mackay Brown's Andrina, directed by Bill Forsyth, won the Grand Prix at the Celtic Film and Television festival (now the Celtic Media festival).
His play, The Firm - a seminal exploration of football violence - was turned into a 1988 film starring Gary Oldman and directed by Alan Clarke, and won the 1990 Prix Europa (he was working on a sequel to it shortly before he died).
Directed by Jim Jarmusch, the film won the Grand Prix at the Cannes film festival.
And don't forget Alex's family have always been steeped in cinema – his mother, Carol Reid, directed The Third Man, which of course took the Grand Prix in 1949.
The Wonders, one of the two films in competition directed by a woman - Alice Rohrwacher, 33 - won the Grand Prix (or, runner's up award).
In 1964, Mr. Oppenheim wrote, produced and directed "Casals at 88," about the Spanish cellist Pablo Casals, which received the Prix Italia.
