This years nominations for the much sought after Palme D'Or are:

• L'Amico di famiglia - Paolo Sorrentino
• Babel - Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Il Caimano - Nanni Moretti
• Les Climats - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Fast Food Nation - Richard Linklater
• Flandres - Bruno Dumont
• Indigènes - Rachid Bouchareb
• Juventude Em Marcha - Pedro Costa
• El Laberinto del Fauno - Guillermo del Toro
• Laitakaupungin valot - Aki Kaurismäki
• Marie-Antoinette - Sofia Coppola
• Quand j'étais chanteur - Xavier Giannoli
• La Raison du plus faible - Lucas Belvaux
• Red Road - Andrea Arnold
• Selon Charlie - Nicole Garcia
• Southland Tales - Richard Kelly
• Summer Palace - Lou Ye
• Volver - Pedro Almodóvar
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Ken Loach
• Cronica de una fuga - Adrian Caetano

Films out of the Competition:

• The Da Vinci Code - Ron Howard
• X-Men 3: The Last Stand - Brett Ratner
• United 93" - Paul Greengrass
• Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait - Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno