Cannes 2024: The Awards

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VERDICT: Sean Baker's fizzy Cinderella tale about a Brooklyn lap dancer who falls for a Russian playboy won this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes.

77th CANNES FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS 2024 

FEATURE FILM COMPETITION

PALME D’OR for Best Film to:
Anora
by Sean Baker (U.S.A.)

GRAND PRIX to:
All We Imagine as Light
by Payal Kapadia (India)

JURY PRIZE to:
Emilia Pérez
by Jacques Audiard (France)

BEST DIRECTOR to:
Miguel Gomes  (Portugal)
for the film Grand Tour

SPECIAL AWARD to:
Mohammad Rasoulof  (Iran)
for the film The Seed of the Sacred Fig

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR to:
Jesse Plemons  (U.S.A.)
for the film Kinds of Kindness directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS to:
Adriana Paz
Zoe Saldana
Karla Sofia Gascon
Selena Gomez
for the film Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard

BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Coralie Fargeat
for the film The Substance

SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

PALME D’OR
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
by Nebojsa Slijepcevic

SPECIAL MENTION to:
Bad for a Moment
by Daniel Soares

 

UN CERTAIN REGARD

UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE to:
Black Dog
by Guan Hu

JURY PRIZE to:
L’histoire de Souleymane
by Boris Lojkine

BEST DIRECTOR ex-aequo to:
Roberto Minervini
for the film The Damned

Rungano Nyoni
for the film On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

BEST ACTRESS
Anasuya Sengupta
for the film The Shameless

BEST ACTOR
Abou Sangaré
for the film L’Histoire de Souleymane

YOUTH AWARD
Holy Cow
by Louise Courvoisier
First Film

SPECIAL MENTION
Norah
Tawfik Alzaidi
First Film

CAMERA D’OR PRIZE
Armand
by Halfdan Ullmann Tondel

SPECIAL MENTION
Mongrel
by Weil Liang Chiang and You Qiao Yin

 

FIPRESCI AWARDS

MAIN COMPETITION
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
by Mohammad Rasoulof

UN CERTAIN REGARD
The Story of Souleymane
by Boris Lojkine

FIRST OR SECOND FILM IN DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT OR CRITICS WEEK
Desert of Namibia
by Yoko Yamanaka