Press Release l 77th Cannes Film Festival Winners' List

The 77th Festival de Cannes winners' list
Compiled by: Amit kumaR Agarwal

© Joachim Tournebize / Festival

MAY 25, 2024

After 11 days of an exceptional edition, the Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes, chaired by American director, screenwriter and actress Greta Gerwig, surrounded by Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, as well as Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu and French actor and producer Omar Sy, presented its winners' list among the 22 films presented in Competition this year.

Feature Films

Palme d'or ANORA / Sean BAKER

Grand Prix ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT / Payal KAPADIA

Jury Prize EMILIA PÉREZ / Jacques AUDIARD

Best Director Miguel GOMES for GRAND TOUR

Special Award Mohammad RASOULOF for THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG

Best Performance by an Actor
Jesse PLEMONS
in KINDS OF KINDNESS directed by Yorgos LANTHIMOS

Best Performance by an Actress 
Adriana PAZ
Zoe SALDAÑA
Karla Sofía GASCÓN
Selena GOMEZ
in EMILIA PÉREZ directed by Jacques AUDIARD

Best Screenplay Coralie FARGEAT for THE SUBSTANCE

Honorary Palme d'or : George Lucas
George Lucas & Francis Ford Coppola ©  Christophe SIMON / AFP

 Short Films

 Palme d'or THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT / Nebojša SLIJEPČEVIĆ

Special Mention BAD FOR A MOMENT / Daniel SOARES

Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Prize BLACK DOG / Guan Hu

Jury Prize L'HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE / Boris Lojkine

Best Director ex-aequo
ROBERTO MINERVINI for The Damned

RUNGANO NYONI for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Best Actress ANASUYA SENGUPTA in The Shameless

Best Actor ABOU SANGARÉ in L’Histoire de Souleymane

Youth Award HOLY COW / Louise Courvoisier / 1st film

Special mention NORAH / Tawfik Alzaidi / 1st film

Caméra d'or

 Caméra d'or Prize ARMAND / HALFDAN ULLMANN TØNDEL Un Certain Regard

Special Mention MONGREL / WEI LIANG CHIANG & YOU QIAO YIN Quinzaine des Cinéastes

La Cinef

 First Prize SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW… / Chidananda S Naik: FTII, Pune, India

Joint Second Prize
OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL / Asya Segalovich: Columbia University, United States

THE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND / Nikos Kolioukos: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Third Prize BUNNYHOOD / Mansi Maheshwari: NFTS, United Kingdom

Superior Technical Commission

 The CST AWARD FOR BEST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN is granted to DARIA D’ANTONIO, Director of Photography on Paolo Sorrentino’s film PARTHENOPE

The 2024 CST award for best artist-technician is granted to Daria d’Antonio, director of photography on Paolo Sorrentino’s film, “Parthenope”. Daria’s images offer the perfect cinematography to Parthenope with grace and beauty.

The CST AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG FEMALE FILM TECHNICIAN is granted to EVGENIA ALEXANDROVA, Director of photography on THE BALCONETTES by Noémie Merlant

The jury of the 2024 CST award for best young female film technician is proud to grant this year’s prize to Evgenia Alexandrova, director of photography on Noémie Merlant’s film “The Balconettes” for the quality of her saturated colours and her assertive management of the lighting which transports us from comedy to genre.