After an 11-day celebration of cinema, the 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded with the prestigious awards ceremony.
Chaired by acclaimed American filmmaker Greta Gerwig, the jury included notable figures such as Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, and French actor and producer Omar Sy.
They presented the coveted awards among the 22 films in competition:
Feature Films
Palme d’Or
ANORA
Directed by Sean Baker
Grand Prix
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
Directed by Payal Kapadia
Jury Prize
EMILIA PÉREZ
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Best Director
Miguel Gomes
GRAND TOUR
Special Award
Mohammad Rasoulof
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
Best Actor
Jesse Plemons
KINDS OF KINDNESS directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Best Actress
Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez
EMILIA PÉREZ directed by Jacques Audiard
Best Screenplay
Coralie Fargeat
THE SUBSTANCE
Short Films
Palme d’Or
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT
Directed by Nebojša Slijepčević
Special Mention
BAD FOR A MOMENT
Directed by Daniel Soares
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Prize
BLACK DOG
Directed by Guan Hu
Jury Prize
L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE
Directed by Boris Lojkine
Best Director ex-aequo
Roberto Minervini
The Damned
Rungano Nyoni
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Best Actress
Anasuya Sengupta
The Shameless
Best Actor
Abou Sangaré
L’Histoire de Souleymane
Youth Award
HOLY COW
Directed by Louise Courvoisier (1st film)
REELated:
Special Mention
NORAH
Directed by Tawfik Alzaidi (1st film)
Caméra d’Or
Caméra d’Or Prize
ARMAND
Directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (Un Certain Regard)
Special Mention
MONGREL
Directed by Wei Liang Chiang & You Qiao Yin (Quinzaine des Cinéastes)
La Cinef
First Prize
SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW…
Directed by Chidananda S Naik (FTII, Pune, India)
Joint Second Prize
OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL
Directed by Asya Segalovich (Columbia University, United States)
THE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND
Directed by Nikos Kolioukos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Third Prize
BUNNYHOOD
Directed by Mansi Maheshwari (NFTS, United Kingdom)
Superior Technical Commission
CST Award for Best Artist-Technician
Daria D’Antonio, Director of Photography
PARTHENOPE by Paolo Sorrentino
Daria’s images offer perfect cinematography to Parthenope with grace and beauty.
CST Award for Best Young Female Film Technician
Evgenia Alexandrova, Director of Photography
THE BALCONETTES by Noémie Merlant
For the quality of her saturated colours and assertive management of lighting which transports us from comedy to genre.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival once again highlighted the brilliance and diversity of global cinema, celebrating outstanding achievements in filmmaking with its prestigious accolades.
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