Joey Magidson
This afternoon, the 77th Cannes Film Festival came to a close. Taking the coveted top prize, the Palme d’Or, was Sean Baker‘s latest sex-positive comedy, Anora. Emilia Pérez took two categories, the Jury Prize, as well as Best Actress for its central female cast, consisting of Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Selena Gomez. Best Actor went to Jesse Plemons for Kinds of Kindness. The rest of the categories can be seen below, but Anora may well be a bigger awards contender than we thought. Plus, that’s another year where NEON has the Palme winner. Go figure!
Here are all of the Cannes winners:
Palme d’Or
Sean Baker, Anora
Grand Prix
All We Imagine As Light
Jury Prize
Emilia Pérez
Best Director
Miguel Gomez, Grand Tour
Best Screenplay
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best Actress
Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Best Actor
Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Honorary Palme d’Or
George Lucas
Special Award
Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Camera d’Or for Best First Film
Halfdan Ullman Tondel, Armand
Palme d’Or for Best Short Film
Nebojsa Slijepcevic, The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Incredible. Absolutely gob-smacking. I predicted my own blunder this time around. I said, in my prediction article, that there was I very real likelihood that I would wrongly predict the Palme d’Or winner would take the Best Actress prize for the second year in a row… and it happened!
Ah, well, at least my instincts about Grand Tour weren’t totally unwarranted…
At least we’re consistent! I told you earlier how I initially had Plemmons winning Actor and Anora taking the Palme, but then I had to think about it some more. Oops…