Cannes 2024 Winners: Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ Wins the Palme d’Or (Full List)
The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded today as the Greta Gerwig-fronted jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s new sex worker comedy, Anora. It is also distributor NEON’s fifth consecutive Palme win following Anatomy of a Fall, Triangle of Sadness, Titane, and Parasite.
The festival ran from May 14 to 25. Its in-competition lineup featured highly anticipated new films from Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jacques Audiard, Mohammad Rasoulof, Jia Zhangke, Miguel Gomes, Coralie Fargeat, Andrea Arnold, Paul Schrader, Paolo Sorrentino, and more. Alongside Gerwig, the jury also included Lily Gladstone, Eva Green, Omar Sy, Nadine Labaki, Hirokazu Kore-eda, J. A. Bayona, Pierfrancesco Favino, and Ebru Ceylan.
Palme winner Anora stars Mikey Madison (Scream, Better Things) as a Brooklyn stripper who gets more than she bargained for when she marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Baker is no stranger to Cannes, as he premiered his last two films – Red Rocket and The Florida Project – at the festival. It’s safe to say that NEON will likely set it for an awards season run later this year.
Picking up the Grand Prix award is writer-director Payal Kapadia’s drama All We Imagine As Light, which centers on the relationships between nurses dealing with complicated relationships in modern-day Mumbai. Sideshow and Janus Films picked up the rights during the festival and may likely release it later in the year. Jacques Audiard’s crime musical Emilia Pérez, which astonished plenty of viewers at Cannes, picked up both the Jury Prize and Best Actress – the latter of which was awarded to the ensemble of Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz.
The Best Actor prize was awarded to Jesse Plemons for his performance(s) in Yorgos Lanthimos’ new cringefest Kinds of Kindness, which arrives in theaters June 21. Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) won Best Screenplay for her new body horror The Substance, which MUBI will release worldwide later this year. Miguel Gomes (Tabu) took home Best Director for his beguiling period drama, Grand Tour. Another winner that certainly captivated Cannes audiences was Mohammad Rasoulof’s ever-so-timely The Seed of The Sacred Fig, which was presented with both the FIPRESCI Prize and a Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay.
See the full list of winners below:
Palme d’Or
Anora, dir: Sean Baker
Grand Prize
All We Imagine as Light, dir: Payal Kapadia
Jury Prize
Emilia Perez, dir: Jacques Audiard
Best Director
Miguel Gomes, Grand Tour
Special Prize
Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Actor
Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Best Actress
Emilia Perez ensemble: Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gascon, Selena Gomez
Best Screenplay
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat
Camera d’Or
Armand, dir: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Special Mention
Mongrel, dir: Chiang Wei Liang
Short Film Palme d’Or
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, dir: Nebojsa Slijepcevic
Special Mention
Bad For a Moment, dir: Daniel Soares
Golden Eye Documentary Prize:
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, dir. Raoul Peck; The Brink of Dreams, dirs. Ayman El Amir & Nada Riyadh
Queer Palm:
Three Kilometers to the End of the World, dir. Emanuel Parvu
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