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Which film won the Palme d'Or Award at Cannes? And who's buzzing the news with their Grand Prix and Special Prix wins? The films were screened and the jury ruled! Cannes Film Festival was concluded this past weekend on a high note with groundbreaking wins for 2024!
The Palme d’or is a timeless symbol of the Festival de Cannes and has been awarded to the best film in this globally-renowned competition for over 60 years. Over 40 hours of work is put into the making of this jewellery marvel - and so it goes without saying whoever's wins has got to earn it. Let's take a look at the Top Prize winner of Cannes 2024 and the competitors who scored the high-ranking awards that follow! Behold the members of the Cannes jury, ladies & gents:
From left to right: Pierfrancesco Favino, Nadine Labaki, Lily Gladstone, President of the Jury Greta Gerwig, members Juan Antonio Bayona, Eva Green, Omar Sy, Ebru Ceylan and Hirokazu Kore-eda attending the ending ceremony of Cannes 2024.
"Anora" by American Sean Baker wins Palme d'Or!
Baker is the first American filmmaker to cinch the festival’s top prize since Terrence Malick earned the Palme for “The Tree of Life” in 2011. “Anora” is Baker’s third film to debut at Cannes, following “The Florida Project” and “Red Rocket.” and finally, he snatched a winner - third time's a charm, they say!
Strong competitors: Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light and Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig secured the Grand Prix and Special Prix awards respectively.
Kapadia’s film was the first Indian production in 30 years to compete in the main competition at Cannes and this year Payal Kapadia accepted the Grand Prix - which is the festival’s second-highest award, for “All We Imagine as Light". Her movie focuses on the connections between three Mumbai women of different ages and classes.
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof caused quite the media controversy as he attended the Cannes Film Festival at great personal risk...fleeing an eight-year prison sentence for making political drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” The jury created a special award and greeted him with an enthusiastic standing ovation. His 3-hour long film tackles the country’s recent Women, Life, Freedom movement through a middle-class family whose two daughters question their father’s role in the regime.
Here’s the complete list of winners of the Cannes Competition:
PALME d’OR
Anora, Sean Baker
GRAND PRIX
All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
JURY PRIZE
Emilia Perez
SPECIAL PRIZE
Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
BEST ACTOR
Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
BEST ACTRESS
Ensemble of Emilia Perez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz
BEST DIRECTOR
Miguel Gomes, Grand Tour
BEST SCREENPLAY
Coralie Fargeat,The Substance
BEST FIRST FEATURE (Camera d’Or)
Armand, Halfdan Ullman Tondel
Until next year, Cannes!
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