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Posted: Sunday 22 May, 2011 at 1:49 PM

Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn wins Cannes best director

CANNES, France (AFP)

(cannes, FRA) - Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn won the best director prize at Cannes Sunday for his high-octane film noir "Drive" about a stuntman who moonlights as a getaway car driver.

Refn, 40, the son of Anders Refn who edited fellow Dane Lars von Trier's "Breaking the Waves", thanked his star, "supercool" Canadian actor Ryan Gosling.