The hype out of the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant, for these far-flung and on the bottom, tells one story: This was among the many weaker lineups in current reminiscence.
Certain, big tales broke out of the competition, from Francis Ford Coppola’s distribution push for his self-funded, decades-in-the-making ardour mission “Megalopolis” to Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fleeing his dwelling nation after being sentenced to eight years in jail, lastly making it to Cannes along with his new movie “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” This journey impressed the jury to award him and his movie a Particular Prize (Prix Spécial).
Elsewhere within the official choice, Un Sure Regard already handed out its prizes on Friday from a jury led by Xavier Dolan and together with Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, and Todd McCarthy. Among the many high winners had been Roberto Minervini (“The Damned”) and Rungano Nyoni (“On Changing into a Guinea Fowl”) tying for Finest Director, “L’Histoire De Souleymane” (Jury Prize), and “Black Canine” (Un Sure Regard Prize). However Saturday’s ceremony marks the announcement of the competition’s important prizes, together with the Palme d’Or.
This 12 months’s Cannes wasn’t with out its potential crises, with rumors of a French #MeToo scandal heightening and a potential labor motion by Cannes workers. Alas, the present went on, and these circumstances didn’t influence the programming. However — largely as a consequence of final 12 months’s strikes impacting manufacturing and launch dates — 2024 Cannes fare hasn’t but yielded a breakout on the extent of “Anatomy of a Fall,” which gained the 2023 Palme earlier than later successful an Oscar. One of many competition’s greatest shocks got here with Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” a physique horror satire that gained Finest Screenplay and must be a success as soon as MUBI releases the movie theatrically.
“Emilia Pérez” from Jacques Audiard appeared to steal the present, selecting up the Finest Actress award for your entire ensemble, in addition to the Jury Prize. In the meantime, Payal Kapadia — who gained Cannes’ Golden Eye Award for documentary in 2021 for “A Evening of Realizing Nothing” — additionally surprised audiences together with her new movie “All We Think about as Gentle.” Her competitors premiere marks the primary Indian movie in 30 years to contend for the Palme and her Grand Prix win marks the primary time in virtually 90 years since a movie from India gained that award. Nonetheless it was Sean Baker’s “Anora” that took the Palais by storm, receiving a rousing standing ovation, in addition to among the fest’s highest marks from critics, and in the end receiving the highest prize of the Palme d’Or. Neon has acquired the movie and can probably deliver it to different festivals this 12 months for an enormous awards push, just like what they did with final 12 months’s Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall.”
With a jury led by Greta Gerwig alongside the likes of Lily Gladstone, Ebru Ceylan, Eva Inexperienced, Nadine Labaki, J.A. Bayona, Pierfrancesco Favino, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Omar Sy, this 12 months’s awards presentation was streamed by way of Brut for viewers around the globe, in French on Youtube and with English translation on their Fb web page, at 6:45 p.m. native time and 12:45 p.m EDT.
Right here’s the listing of the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant winners:
Palme d’Or: “Anora”
Grand Prix: “All We Think about as Gentle”
Jury Prize: “Emilia Pérez”
Particular Prize (Prix Spécial): “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammed Rasoulof
Finest Actress: The Ensemble of “Emilia Pérez”
Finest Actor: Jesse Plemons, “Sorts of Kindness”
Finest Director: Miguel Gomes, “Grand Tour”
Finest Screenplay: “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat
Digital camera d’Or: “Armand,” Halfdan Ullman Tondel
Digital camera d’Or Particular Point out: “Mongrel,” Chiang Wei Liang, You Qiao Yin
Brief Movie Palme d’Or: “The Man Who Might Not Stay Silent,” Nebojša Slijepčević
Brief Movie Particular Point out: “Dangerous for a Second,” Daniel Soares
Golden Eye Documentary Prize: “Ernest Cole: Misplaced and Discovered” and “The Brink of Desires”
Queer Palm: “Three Kilometers to the Finish of the World”
Palme Canine: Kodi, “Palm Canine”