Cannes 2017: Robert Pattinson tipped for Oscar after receiving six-minute standing ovation at Good Time screening

Robert Pattinson is being tipped for an Oscar after receiving a six-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.

The British actor’s performance as a criminal in the Safdie brothers’ new film, Good Time, is being lauded as a career best.

In what is being described as the best reaction of this year’s festival, assembled critics and press stood and applauded for six full minutes as the credits rolled after Thursday’s screening.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the crowd went “wild” after the screening, with cries of “bravo” and “good job” heard all over the auditorium.

Critic David Rooney said that Pattinson had a “can't-look-away intensity” in his performance, while Variety’s Guy Lodge described it as a “career high”.

The film unfolds over the course of a single night in New York City, as a man tries to come up with a large amount of cash following a botched robbery.

During a press conference for the film, Pattinson revealed that he likes to ditch his British accent for auditions, adopting an American one instead.

“You were telling me that story about how you'd go to auditions with your Denver accent, because you just did not want anyone to know that you were British-born,” said director Josh Safdie.

Pattinson replied: “'I would do an impression. I would have another character to go to an audition to play a different character.”

Good Time is just one of the films screening in competition at the 70th Cannes Film Festival , going up against Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer.