THEhe jury, chaired by the South Korean director Park Chan-wook and composed by Diego Céspedes, Isaach de Bankolé, Paul Laverty, Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Stellan Skarsgård and Chloé Zhao from the stage of the Grand Theater Lumière awarded the prizes of the 79th edition of the Cannes festival.
The actress Eye Haidarahost of the evening, invited to the stage Tilda Swinton why entrusted the Palme d’Or in the firm hands of XXX, director of XX. By Geena Davis, Xavier Dolan, Pierfrancesco Favino, Gael Garcia Bernal, Nadine Labaki And Zoe Saldaña the delivery of the other prizes.
During the evening the Honorary Palme d’Or to Barbra Streisand, absent due to a knee problem. At his request, it was Isabelle Huppert to accept the award and give a short speech.
The prizes of the other sections of the festival had been delivered in recent days: Everytime by Sandra Wollner won the Un Certain Regard award, Gradiva by Marine Atlan won the Grand Prix of Critics’ Week, the British feature film I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Clio Barnard won the Audience Award in the Quinzaine des CInéastes, The explosive expèce (Too Many Beasts) by the French Sarah Arnold won the Europa Cinemas Label award for best European film. Shana by Lila Pinell received the Coup de Cœur des auteurs from the SACD,
Competition: all prizes
Palme d’Or: Fjord by Cristian Mungiu
Grand Prix: Minotaur by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Minotaur by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Jury Prize: The Dreamed Adventure by Valeska Grisebach
Best director: ex-aequo – Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi For The black bola; Pawel Pawlikowski For Fatherland
Best Female Performance: Tao Okamoto and Virginie Efira For Soudain Of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Virginie Efira in Soudain.
Best Male Performance: the two protagonists of Coward directed by Lukas Dhont, Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne
Best screenplay: Emmanuel Marre For Our regards.
Camera d’Or, the award for the best debut
Golden Chamber to Ben’Imana by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, presented in Un Certain Regard