Twelve days of cinephile heaven are over as the Cannes Film Festival wraps up for another year. This evening in the south of France, the George Miller-led jury have made their selection of the winners. And as per usual, there were some major curveballs.
Ashgar Farhadi‘s well-received but not particularly wildly acclaimed “The Salesman” landed two awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Andrea Arnold continued her terrific run on the Croisette, earning her third Jury Prize for “American Honey.” In a rare tie, Olivier Assayas and Cristian Mungiu shared Best Director for “Personal Shopper” and “Graduation.” In the “Suck It Haters” category, Xavier Dolan landed the Grand Prix for his divisive “It’s Only The End Of The World.”
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Taking the Palme d’Or for the second time in his career was Ken Loach for what is reported to be his final film, “I, Daniel Blake.” So, sorry Jim Jarmusch, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Park Chan-wook fans: They walked away with nothing.
See the full list of winners below, including those awarded in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and Cannes Critics’ Week.
Cannes Film Festival Awards
Caméra d’Or (best first feature): “Divines” directed by Uda Benyamina
Best screenplay: Asghar Farhadi for “The Salesman”
Best actress: Jaclyn Jose in Brillante Mendoza’s “Ma’ Rosa”
Jury prize: “American Honey” directed by Andrea Arnold
Best actor: Shahab Hosseini in Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman”
Best director TIE: Olivier Assayas for “Personal Shopper” and Cristian Mungiu for “Graduation”
Grand Prix: “It’s Only The End Of The World” directed by Xavier Dolan
Palme d’Or: “I, Daniel Blake” directed by Ken Loach
Honorary Palme d’Or: Jean-Pierre Leaud
Prize of Un Certain Regard
HYMYILEVÄ MIES
(The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki)
by Juho Kuosmanen
Jury Prize
FUCHI NI TATSU
(Harmonium)
by Fukada Kôji
Prize for Best Director
Matt Ross
for CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
Prize for Best Screenplay
Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin
for VOIR DU PAYS (The Stopover)
Un Certain Regard Special Prize
LA TORTUE ROUGE
(The Red Turtle)
by Michael Dudok de Wit
Sponsors Awards at the 2016 edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight / Quinzaine des Realisateurs
Art Cinema Award to a feature film
“Wolf & Sheep,” dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat
SACD Award to a French-language feature film
“The Together Project” (aka “L’Effet Aquatique”) dir. Sólveig Anspach
SACD special mention
“Divines” dir. Uda Benyamina
The Europa Cinemas Label to a European feature film
“Mercenary” (aka “Mercenaire”) dir. Sacha Wolff
Illy Prize to a short film
“Chasse Royale” dirs. Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Illy special mention
“The Beast” (aka “Zvir”) dir. Miroslav Sikavica
Cannes Critics’ Week Awards
Nespresso
Grand Prize
Mimosas by Oliver Laxe
France 4
Visionary Award
Albüm by Mehmet Can Mertoglu
Leica Cine Discovery Prize for short films
Prenjak by Wregas Bhanuteja
PARTNER AWARDS
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
Sophie Dulac, French distributor for One Week and a Day (Shavua Ve Yom) by Asaph Polonsky
SACD
Award
Davy Chou and Claire Maugendre, co-writers of Diamond Island
Canal+ Award for short films
L’enfance d’un Chef by Antoine de Bary
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