Joey Magidson
The 75th Cannes Film Festival has come to a close! In true Cannes fashion, the predictions that Robert and I made here a few days ago weren’t too accurate, but followed a different logic than the Jury. Now, we did get a few right, as you can see (we both nailed Song Kang-ho taking the Actor prize for Broker, while I got actress right with Zar Amir Ebrahimi for Holy Spider), and came close on others. As for the actual winners, the Palme d’Or went to Ruben Östlund for his film Triangle of Sadness, making him a two-time winner. Other prize winners this afternoon include the aforementioned Song Kang-ho for Broker, as well as a special citation for Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, but you’ll be able to see the full results below…
Here now are all of the winners from the 75th Cannes Film Festival:
COMPETITION
Palme d’Or: “Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Östlund
Grand Prix — TIE: “Stars at Noon,” Claire Denis AND “Close,” Lukas Dhont
Director: Park Chan-wook, “Decision to Leave”
75th Anniversary Special Award: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, “Tori & Lokita”
Actor: Song Kang-ho, “Broker”
Actress: Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, “Holy Spider”
Jury Prize — TIE: “The Eight Mountains,” Félix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch AND “EO,” Jerzy Skolimowski
Screenplay: Tarik Saleh, “Boy From Heaven”
OTHER PRIZES
Camera d’Or: “War Horse,” Gina Gammell and Riley Keough
Camera d’Or Special Mention: “Plan 75,” Hayakawa Chie
Short Films Palme d’Or:“The Water Murmurs,” Jianying Chen
Short Films Special Mention:“Lori,” Abinash Bikram Shah
Golden Eye Documentary Prize: “All That Breathes,” Shaunak Sen
Queer Palm: “Joyland”
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Un Certain Regard Award: “The Worst Ones,” Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Jury Prize: “Joyland,” Saim Sadiq
Best Director Prize: Alexandru Belc, “Metronom”
Best Performance Prize — TIE: Vicky Krieps, “Corsage” and Adam Bessa, “Harka”
Best Screenplay Prize: Maha Haj, “Mediterranean Fever”
Coup de Coeur Award: “Rodeo,” Lola Quivoron
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
Europa Cinemas Label: “One Fine Morning,” Mia Hansen-Løve
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: “The Mountain,” Thomas Salvador
CRITICS’ WEEK
Nespresso Grand Prize: “La Jauria,” Andres Ramirez Pulido
French Touch Prize: “Aftersun,” Charlotte Wells
GAN Foundation Award for Distribution: Urban Distribution, “The Woodcutter Story”
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Zelda Samson, “Love According to Dalva”
CINÉFONDATION
First Prize: A Conspiracy Man,” Valerio Ferrara
Second Prize: “Somewhere,” Li Jiahe
Third Prize — TIE: “Glorious Revolution,” Masha Novikova AND “Humans Are Dumber When Crammed Up Together,” Laurène Fernandez
Source: Variety
I am… fascinated by that special award they gave to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. It’s the one decision they made that really throws me. I almost wonder if they low-key wanted to give Tori and Lokita the top award but didn’t feel comfortable with awarding the brothers an unprecedented third Palme d’Or (although if anyone is going to do it eventually…).
It sort of reminds me of when the Academy believed Harold Russell was going to lose Best Supporting Actor for The Best Years of Our Lives so they gave him a Special Achievement Award, and then he won Best Supporting Actor anyway.
That is kind of how I felt as well…
One other interesting thing: Sweden is now the first and so far only country to have produced two filmmakers who won this award twice. Denmark, Yugoslavia, Japan, Belgium, Austria, the U.K., and we in the United States have filmmakers who have accomplished a two-fer at the festival, but only Sweden needs both hands to hold up Alf Sjöberg and Ruben Östlund.
I do wonder if Östlund might be their new “guy”, which I wouldn’t hate.