79th Cannes International Film Festival Winners - Cristian Mungiu's Fjord Takes the Palme d'Or

The 79th Cannes International Film Festival has concluded with the announcement of the competition awards, where Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord was announced as this year’s Palme d’Or winner. This is the second Palme win for the Romanian director, who previously won for 2007’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur won the Grand Prix, the second-highest honour of the festival.

Fjord was the most-awarded film at the festival, with wins from FIPRESCI, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, the Prix François Chalais, and the Prix de la Citoyenneté. Valeska Grisebach’s The Dreamed Adventure scored the Jury Prize, while Emmanuel Marre’s A Man of His Time won Best Screenplay

Led by director Park Chan-wook, the jury awarded three categories as ties or double wins. Both acting categories went to the co-leads of their films, with Best Actor for Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne in Lukas Dhont’s Coward, and Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto sharing Best Actress for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden.

The award for Best Director was a tie with Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for La bola negra and Paweł Pawlikowski for Fatherland as the joint winners.

Full list of winners below.

COMPETITION

Palme d’Or: Fjord by Cristian Mungiu

Grand Prix: Minotaur by Andrey Zvyagintsyev

Jury Prize: The Dreamed Adventure by Valeska Grisebach

Best Director (tie): Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for La bola negra; Paweł Pawlikowski for Fatherland

Best Actress: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto for All of a Sudden

Best Actor: Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne for Coward

Best Screenplay: A Man of His Time

OTHER PRIZES

Camera d’Or: Ben’Imana, Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo

Short Film Palme d’Or: For the Opponents, Federico Luis

HONORARY PALMES D’OR

Peter Jackson
Barbra Streisand
John Travolta

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Un Certain Regard Award: Everytime, Sandra Wollner

Jury Prize: Elephants in the Fog, Abinash Bikram Shah

Special Jury Prize: Iron Boy, Louis Clichy

Best Actress: Daniela Marín Navarro, Marina de Tavira and Mariangel Villegas, Forever Your Maternal Animal

Best Actor: Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset, Congo Boy

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT

Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film: Too Many Beasts, Sarah Arnold

SACD Prize for Best French Film: Shana, Shana Pinell

Audience Choice Award: I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, Clio Barnard

Carrosse d’Or: Claire Denis

CRITICS’ WEEK

Grand Prize: La Gradiva, Marine Atlan

GAN Foundation Award for Distribution: A Girl Unknown, Zou Jing (Pyramide Distribution)

Rising Star Award: Aina Clotet, Alive

SACD Prize: Blerta Basholli and Nicole Borgeat, Dua

Canal+ Short Film Award: Vaterland or a Bule Named Yanto, Berthold Wahjudi

Discovery Prize for Short Film: Skinny Boots, Romain F. Dubois

IMMERSIVE COMPETITION

Best Immersive Work Award: Katábasis, Ugo Arsac

Special Mention: The Black Mirror Experience, David Bardos and Damià Ferràndiz

CINÉFONDATION AWARDS

First Prize: Laser-Cat, by Lucas Acher (NYC, United States)

Second Prize: Silent Voices, Nadine Misong Jin (Columbia University, United States)

Third Prize: (TIE) Never Enough, Julius Lagoutte Larsen (La Fémis, France); Growing Stones, Flying Papers, Roozbeh Gezerseh and Soraya Shamsi (Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, Germany)

OTHER AWARDS

L’Oeil d’Or Documentary Prize: Rehearsals for a Revolution, Pegah Ahangarani

Golden Eye Special Jury Prize: Tin Castle, Alexander Murphy

Queer Palm: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun

Queer Palm Discovery Prize: Flesh and Fuel, Pierre Le Gall

Queer Palm for Short Film: Silent Voice, Nadine Misong Jin

FIPRESCI Award (Competition): Fjord, Cristian Mungiu

FIPRESCI Award (Un Certain Regard): Ben’Imana, Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo

FIPRESCI Award (Parallel Sections): A Girl Unknown, Jing Zou

Ecumenical Jury Award: Fjord, Cristian Mungiu