This year’s Cannes Film Festival officially wrapped on Saturday with a star-studded awards ceremony for the best and brightest films and stars of the annual celebration. There were many winners, but the biggest prize of the evening, the Palme d’Or, went to Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord (read our review here), starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan as Romanian religious parents who relocate to a small Norwegian village and find themselves accused of child abuse. With this win, Mungiu is the proud owner of two Palme d’Or awards, having won in 2007 for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a film focusing on illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania.
Minotaur and Fatherland make a splash
Elsewhere at the fest, Andreï Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, a reworking of Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife as a domestic thriller set against contemporary Russia, took the runner-up prize, the Grand Prix. Best directing went to Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the co-directors of La Bola Negra, starring Penelope Cruz and Glenn Close, and Pawel Pawlikowski for Fatherland (read our review here), a chilling film following novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller), who return to a post-war Germany after years of exile in America.
Full winners list below:
You can see the full list of winners below:
Palme d’Or
Fjord, dir. Cristian Mungiu
Grand Prix
Minotaur, dir. Andreï Zvyagintsev
Jury Prize
The Dreamed Adventure, dir. Valeska Grisebach
Best Director
Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi, for La Bola Negra; Paweł Pawlikowski for Fatherland
Best Screenplay
Emmanuel Marre for A Man of His Time
Best Actress
Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto for All of a Sudden, dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Best Actor
Emmanuel Macchia, Valentin Campagne for Coward, dir. Lukas Dhont
Special Prize
Camera d’Or for Best First Film
Palme d’Or for Best Short Film
Para Los Contincantes (To Opponents), dir. Federico Luis
Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Film
Everytime, Sandra Wollner
Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
Elephants in the Fog, Abinash Bikram Shah (first film)
Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize
Iron Boy, Louis Clichy
Un Certain Regard Best Actor
Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset, Congo Boy, dir. Rafiki Fariala
Un Certain Regard Best Actress
Marina de Tavira, Daniela Marín Navarro, Mariangel Villegas, Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno, dir. Valentina Maurel
