🌴 Cannes Film Festival crowns its winners
The 79th Cannes International Film Festival has come to a close. The festival's highest honor—the Palme d'Or—was awarded to Romanian director Cristian Mungiu for his film Fjord. The feature marks the director’s English-language debut and stars Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan.
With this victory, Mungiu enters the elite club of two-time Cannes winners, having secured his first top prize in 2007 for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
The Grand Prix—the festival’s second most prestigious award—went to Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev for Minotaur, a psychological thriller set against the backdrop of modern-day Russia.
Main Laureates of the Cannes Film Festival:
- Best Director: Shared by Spanish filmmaking duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for The Black Ball (La Bola Negra), and Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski for Fatherland.
- Best Actor: Awarded jointly to debutants Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Compagn for their roles in Lukas Dhont’s wartime drama Coward.
- Best Actress: Also shared by two performers—French actress Virginie Efira and Japanese actress Tao Okamoto, who starred in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s emotionally charged drama All of a Sudden.
- Best Screenplay: Emmanuel Marre for the historical drama A Man of His Time.
- Jury Prize: German director Valeska Grisebach for the thriller The Dreamed Adventure.
- Caméra d’Or (Best First Feature): Clémentine Dusabejambo for Ben’Imana, marking the first-ever entry from Rwanda in the Cannes official selection.
The closing ceremony commenced with the presentation of the Honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement to the legendary Barbra Streisand.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
