Best festival dance act went to The Prodigy and Dizzee Rascal was awarded best urban act.
For most music fans, even the best festival may not justify three days in the desert sun and dust.
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Biffy Clyro also picked up the best festival rock act ahead of Bloc Party, Elbow, The Raconteurs and Bullet For My Valentine.
Kings Of Leon beat off competition from The Verve, Metallica, Muse and Rage Against The Machine to win the best festival headline act.
The duo won the vote for best festival pop act, best live newcomer and anthem of the summer for That's Not My Name.
The Tiree Music Festival was named Best Small Festival by Event Scotland in 2012.
The three-day event won best major festival as well as most memorable moment for Jay-Z's mocking of the Oasis classic Wonderwall.
The event, which takes place on the Hebridean island on 20 and 21 July, was previously named "Scotland's best small festival".
In 1994, Banfield earned two IRIS awards for the "Best News Documentary" and "Best of Festival" categories, where she chronicled the life of a homeless man.
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He may run the country's best-loved festival and be one of the most respected figures in British music, but Michael Eavis is still a 69-year-old Somerset dairy farmer first, music mogul second.
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The Palme d'Or wasn't involved in the theft and is still set to be awarded on May 26 at the end of the festival to the winner of the Best Film prize, according to a spokeswoman for the festival organizers.
Among other honors for the film, Ms. Mulloy was named the festival's best new director.
The jury awards the coveted Palme d'Or - or best film - at the festival which runs from 15-26 May.
Because it was only the third film in Sundance history to win both the jury prize and the audience prize for best drama at the January festival, a rare Sundance feat.
It is a well-known secret among the locals that January's Sundance Film Festival is the best time to hit the slopes - all of Hollywood is down in the village schmoozing and the trails are deserted.
The video judged the best at last year's festival featured a cat called Henri, described on his own website as "the world's first and foremost feline philosopher".
Joseph Wairimu, who plays Mwas, won best actor at the Durban International Film Festival, in July.
British actor Jim Broadbent has won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival.
The veteran film-maker, 68, won the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 for Chihwaseon.
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The movie won the Golden Lion (Best Picture) at the Venice Film Festival.
The Romanian film Child's Pose has picked up the coveted Golden Bear prize for best film at the 63rd Berlin film festival.
Oshima's companion film, the more restrained Empire of Passion, won him the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978.
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Director Nicolas Winding Refn won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and critics lauded the film with a 93 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.
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For young talent, it's "the best chance of getting yourself noticed at a festival where people are putting films together and producers are around, " said Hubbard.
It was the highlight of the WOMEX festival, which reminded me how the best art can assert cultural pride while promoting cross-cultural unity.
"This means we can continue to bring the best of music and biggest stars to the Faenol Festival and our little corner of the planet, " he added.
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Up, which opened last summer's Cannes Film Festival, has also been nominated for best animation and is up against Coraline, 9, Fantastic Mr Fox and Disney's forthcoming Princess and the Frog.
As the directors of Edinburgh's festivals returned to their day jobs, it was the turn of Children's laureate Julia Donaldson and three of her best-known illustrators to take to the Book Festival spotlight.
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