Jessica Chastain has hit out at the portrayal of women in film, saying how the female characters in movies she watched at the Cannes film festival were represented was "disturbing".
"I'm overcome", Kruger said.
The Golden Camera (Camera d'Or) award, which is given to first-time directors competing at the festival, also went to France and Leonor Serraille for her movie "Young Woman".
"There are some exceptions, but for the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters on film".
Her speech, in full below, received nods of agreement from fellow jury members including Pedro Almodovar and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing.
Gender equality in the film industry has always been dogged by issues such has pay disparity, representation on screen and behind the camera, and how women are portrayed in movies. "Ones that are proactive, that have their own agencies, don't just react to the men around them".
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Jane Campion is the only woman in the festival's 70-year history to ever win a Palme d'Or, and only this year did the festival crown it's second ever female director, Sofia Coppola, for her movie The Beguiled.
Chastain's comments reverberated around the Internet, with some of Hollywood's biggest female stars endorsing her statement. Of the 19 filmmakers up for Cannes' coveted Palme d'Or, only three were women, including Coppola, Japan's Naomi Kawase and Scotland's Lynne Ramsay. Though it which adapts the same book by Thomas P. Cullinan focused on the soldier, Coppola offers to see at this life story from the women's point of view.
All of this clearly resonated, as many, including director Ava DuVernay, shared the clip across social media.
She said: "I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid".
German-American Diane Kruger won the best actress award for her role in Turkish-German director Fatih Akin's film In the Fade, a thriller set within Turkish community in Germany.
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