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The Cannes Film Festival allocates a €15,000 grant for the winner of the First Prize, €11,250 for the winner of the Second Prize and €7,500 for the winner of the Third Prize. The following 18 shorts (14 live-action and 4 animated films) were selected from among the 2,263 films submitted by schools from all over the world: [ 21 ]
First Black actor to win the Best Actor award. John Kitzmiller for Valley of Peace in 1957. [301] First Black actress and first South African to win the Best Actress award. Linda Mvusi shared the Best Actress Award with her co-stars from A World Apart in 1988. [192] [302] First and only actress to win the Best Actress award two years in a row
The best of this year’s festival as selected by Jacob Stolworthy, including a controversial body horror, one of the bleakest films in history – and definitely not ‘Megalopolis’ The 8 best ...
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 pageantry is over; only the awards themselves remain a mystery for the moment. Masters returned to, if not top form, then a vigorous facsimile of same, or — even better — something wholly new.
From 1964 to 1974, the festival temporarily resumed a Grand Prix. [1] In 1975, the Palme d'Or was reintroduced and has since remained the festival's symbol, awarded each year to the director of the winning film, presented in a case of pure red Morocco leather lined with white suede. [1] Palme d'Or awarded to Apocalypse Now at the 1979 Cannes ...
Writer-director Sean Baker’s dramedy, Anora, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, stars Mikey Madison as a sex worker living in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who ends up ...
The festival was not held at all in 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 1968 events in France . Also, the jury vote was tied, and the prize was shared by two films on 10 occasions (1967, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2011, and 2021–22).