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