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American filmmaker Sean Baker won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the comedy-drama film Anora. [ 5 ] The official poster for the festival featuring a still image from the movie Rhapsody in August (1991) by Akira Kurosawa , selected for the 1991 edition , was designed by Hartland Villa.
The Palme d'Or (French pronunciation: [palm(ə) dɔʁ]; English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. [1]
Sean Baker's “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or.
CANNES — Nine years after being named one of Variety’s Directors to Watch, Sean Baker won the Palme d’Or for “Anora,” a rowdy whirlwind romance between an exotic dancer (Mikey Madison ...
The first and only time the Palme d'Or was shared with the cast. [195] First female director to serve as jury president. Jane Campion in 2014. [308] First Korean film to win the Palme d'or. Parasite in 2019. [309] First black female director to compete for the Palme d'Or. Mati Diop for Atlantics in 2019. [310] First black female director to win ...
Meryl Streep will receive the honorary Palme d’Or on the opening night of the 77th edition of Cannes Film Festival, Variety has learned. Luring the Oscar winner is yet another feat for this ...
Anora premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2024, [26] [27] and won the festival's Palme d'Or on May 25. [28] It earned a 10-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening. [ 29 ] It became the fifth consecutive Palme d'Or winner distributed by Neon in the United States, [ 30 ] and the first American-produced film to win the ...
A year after collecting his second Palme d‘Or for “Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Östlund bestowed the same honor to Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” a thought-provoking legal drama ...