CANNES, France, May 26 (UPI) -- "Blue Is the Warmest Color" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes festival in France and its two stars were awarded a share of the prize with their director .
Jury President Steven Spielberg announced the prize would go -- in a first for the festival -- not only to the director of the lesbian love story, Abdellatiff Kechiche, but also to its costars Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, the Los Angeles Times reported.