CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes Film Festival pulled it off in its 60th year, picking a popular winner from an eclectic competition line-up that had many more hits than misses.

The annual movie extravaganza also attracted a string of big Hollywood stars to its red carpet, always key to a festival's success, and reports of a healthy crop of new film deals signed on the margins meant 2007 would go down as a vintage Cannes.