The morning of the final day of the Cannes Film Festival is when the rumors start: fast-spreading whispers about which directors and stars have been invited back to attend that evening’s Palmarès awards ceremony. There, the Competition jury — this year presided over by South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, with Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård and Chloé Zhao among his jurors — will soon present their picks for the best of the fest, culminating in the coveted Palme d’Or.
As for the names and films alleged to be in the mix, they largely coincide with the established critical favorites. (See our own critics’ picks here.) They include Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland,” Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden,” and a late-breaking wild card: Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s sprawling queer melodrama “The Black Ball,” which wasn’t much buzzed-about at the start of the festival, but premiered two days ago to ecstatic audience reactions, a 16-minute standing ovation and a heated bidding war that Netflix is winning. But hearsay can be misleading, and which prizes will go to which films is still anyone’s guess.
The ceremony will also see the presentation of the short film awards, the Camera d’Or for best first feature (a highly competitive prize this year, with 29 debuts in the running), and an Honorary Palme d’Or for showbiz legend Barbra Streisand, though she’s unable to attend in person due to injury. We’ll be updating this article live as the awards are announced, with full commentary to follow.
COMPETITION
Palme d’Or:
Grand Prix:
Jury Prize:
Best Director:
Best Actress:
Best Actor:
Best Screenplay:
OTHER PRIZES
Camera d’Or: “Ben’Imana,” Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo
Short Film Palme d’Or: “For the Opponents,” Federico Luis
Prior to tonight’s ceremony, the festival has also seen the following awards announced:
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
