Brad Pitt movie wins Cannes Palm d'Or

Cannes - Terrence Malick's expansive drama The Tree of Life has won the top honour at the Cannes Film Festival, while Kirsten Dunst took the best actress prize for the apocalyptic saga Melancholia.

The prize was accepted on Sunday by two Tree of Life producers for the press-shy Malick, who skipped all public events at the glamorous Cannes festival.

Dunst won for her role in the end-of-the-world tale Melancholia, whose director, Denmark's Lars von Trier, was banned from the festival after sympathetic remarks for Adolf Hitler at a press conference.

Jean Dujardin claimed the best-actor prize for the silent film The Artist, in which he plays a 1920s Hollywood star whose career crumbles as talking pictures gain.

Full list of 2011 Cannes Film Festival winners:

Palme d'Or: The Tree Of Life (director: Terrence Malick)
Grand Prix: (tie) The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne brothers) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Prix du Jury: Polisse
Prix de la Mise en Scene (Best Director): Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Prix du Scenario (Best Screenplay): Joseph Cedar, Footnote
Camera d'Or (Best First Feature): Las Acacias
Prix d'interpretation masculine (Best Actor): Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Prix d'interpretation feminine (Best Actress): Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia
Palme d'Or (short film): Cross Country