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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatian: Čovjek koji nije mogao šutjeti) is a 2024 Croatian short drama film, written and directed by Nebojša Slijepčević. [1] The film dramatizes the Štrpci massacre of 1993, when 18 Muslims and 1 Croat were pulled off a train by the Serbian White Eagles paramilitary group and massacred; it centres on Tomo Buzov (Dragan Mićanović), the sole non ...
Like “Anora,” all three of those films premiered at Cannes and won the Palme d’Or, the festival’s top honor. “Anora” was the first U.S. film to earn the prize since 2011’s “Tree of ...