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Nominees to watch, Cannes 2010

The Cannes film festival is such a glamorous affair that the stars, their outfits and the red carpet photographs end up dominating the festival coverage, sometimes even more than the films.

Yet this is one of the world's premiere competitions of cinema, and here's our presumptuous pick of the nominees to watch as they gun for the big award, the Palme d'Or.

Another Year

Veteran British director Mike Leigh's latest film is garnering massive, unanimous acclaim.

The story revolves around an old couple, played by Ruth Sheen and Jim Broadbent, a warm and affectionate pair with several miserable friends.

Biutiful

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's latest film is the director's first Spanish feature since his groundbreaking debut, Amores Perros. The film, starring Javier Bardem, is about a crook meeting a childhood friend, who now happens to be a cop.

Certified Copy

Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's latest film is a French-Italian drama, with British singer William Shimell playing a writer travelling to Italy, where he meets and is smitten by the owner of an art gallery, a French woman played by Juliette Binoche.

Outrage

Ultraviolent director Takeshi Kitano's latest film is a crime drama starring himself.

The film has had massive buzz, with advance buzz indicating that the film marks Kitano's return to his Yakuza film roots, an organised crime thriller.

Route Irish

British director Ken Loach is best known for his social realism, the director winning the Palme D'Or in 2006 for The Wind That Shakes The Barley, about the Irish Civil War.

Much is obviously expected from his latest effort, set in Liverpool and looking at private security contractors in Iraq.