The 78th Festival de Cannes winners’ list

Winners and Jury of the 78th Festival de Cannes © Jean_Louis_Hupe/FDC

The Jury of the 78th Festival de Cannes, chaired by French actress Juliette Binoche, surrounded by American actress and filmmaker Halle Berry, Indian director and screenwriter Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, Congolese director, documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer Carlos Reygadas and American actor Jeremy Strong, presented its winners’ list among the 22 films presented in Competition this year.


Feature Films


Palme d’or

UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT

Jafar PANAHI



Grand Prix

AFFEKSJONSVERDI

(SENTIMENTAL VALUE)

Joachim TRIER



Joint Jury Prize

SIRÂT

Oliver LAXE



SOUND OF FALLING

Mascha SCHILINSKI



Best Director

Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO for O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT)



Best Screenplay

Jean-Pierre DARDENNE & Luc DARDENNE for JEUNES MÈRES



Best performance by an actress

Nadia MELLITI in LA PETITE DERNIÈRE directed by Hafsia HERZI



Best performance by an actor

Wagner MOURA in O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT) directed by Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO



Special Award

KUANG YE SHI DAI (RESURRECTION)

Bi GAN


Short Films


Palme d’or

I’M GLAD YOU’RE DEAD NOW

Tawfeek BARHOM


 


Special Mention

ALI

Adnan AL RAJEEV



Un Certain Regard

 


Un Certain Regard Prize

LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO (THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO)

Diego CÉSPEDES

1st film


 


Jury Prize

UN POETA (A POET)

Simón MESA SOTO


 


Best Directing

Arab & Tarzan NASSER

for Once Upon a Time in Gaza


 


Best Actor

Frank DILLANE

in Urchin directed by Harris Dickinson


 


Best Actress

Cleo DIÁRA

in O Riso e a Faca (I Only Rest in the Storm) directed by Pedro Pinho


 


Best Screenplay

PILLION

Harry LIGHTON

1st film



Caméra d’or


Caméra d’or Prize

THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE

Hasan HADI

Directors’ Fortnight


 


Special Mention

MY FATHER’S SHADOW

Akinola DAVIES JR

Un Certain Regard


La Cinef

First Prize

FIRST SUMMER

Heo GAYOUNG

KAFA, South Korea


 


Second Prize

12 MOMENTS BEFORE THE FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY

QU Zhizheng

Beijing Film Academy, China


 


Joint Third Prize

GINGER BOY

Miki TANAKA

ENBU Seminar, Japan


 


WINTER IN MARCH

Natalia MIRZOYAN

Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia



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