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
Cannes Soundtrack Award: Evgueni and Sacha Galperine, Minotaur
François Chalais Prize: Fjord, Cristian Mungiu
Citizenship Prize: Fjord, Cristian Mungiu
AFCAE Art House Cinema Award: A Man of His Time, Emmanuel Marre
Prix du Cinéma Positif: Coward, Lukas Dhont
Palm Dog: Yuri, La Perra
Palm Dog Special Mention: Lola, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Trophée Chopard for Female Revelation of the Year: Odessa A’zion
Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year: Connor Swindells