Festival de Cannes 2018 Awards Announced

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May 20, 2018

Festival de Cannes 2018 Awards Announced

Cannes Film Poster

Photo: Film Poster of EVERYBODY KNOWS (TODOS LO SABEN), a film by Asghar Farhadi. Festival de Cannes 2018 opened with a screening of this film. Image Credit: Memento Films.

The curtain has come down on the 71st Festival de Cannes, which for the last 12 days has featured artists and films from all four corners of the globe on its screens. Onstage at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the Master of Ceremonies, Edouard Baer, welcomed the Feature Film Jury presided over by Cate Blanchett, for the announcement of the 2018 winners.

The event culminated on the Red Carpet, where the prizewinners and jury were treated to a live musical surprise by Sting and Shaggy.

FEATURE FILMS

• PALME D’OR

MANBIKI KAZOKU (Shoplifters), directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu

Cate Blanchett awarded the PALME D’OR.

• GRAND PRIX

BLACKKKLANSMAN (Black Klansman), directed by Spike LEE

Benicio Del Toro and Chang Chen awarded the GRAND PRIX.

• JURY PRIZE

CAPHARNAÜM, directed by Nadine LABAKI

Gary Oldman and Léa Seydoux awarded the JURY PRIZE.

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR

Marcello FONTE in DOGMAN, directed by Matteo GARRONE

Khadja Nin and Roberto Benigni awarded the BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR Prize.

• BEST DIRECTOR PRIZE

ZIMNA WOJNA (Cold War), directed by Pawel PAWLIKOWSKI

Abderrahmane Sissako, Kristen Stewart, and Denis Villeneuve awarded the BEST DIRECTOR PRIZE.

• BEST SCREENPLAY PRIZES

Alice ROHRWACHER for LAZZARO FELICE (Happy as Lazzaro)

Jafar PANAHI for SE ROKH (3 Faces) directed by Jafar PANAHI

Robert Guédiguian and Chiara Mastroianni awarded the BEST SCREENPLAY PRIZES.

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS

Samal YESLYAMOVA in AYKA directed by Sergey DVORTSEVOY

Ava Duvernay and Asia Argento awarded the BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS Prize.

• SPECIAL PALME D’OR

LE LIVRE D’IMAGE (Image Book) directed by Jean-Luc GODARD

Cate Blanchett awarded the SPECIAL PALME D’OR.

SHORT FILMS - COMPETITION

• PALME D’OR

ALL THESE CREATURES directed by Charles WILLIAMS

• SPECIAL DISTINCTION BY THE JURY

YAN BIAN SHAO NIAN (On the Border) directed by WEI Shujun

The President of the Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury, Bertrand Bonello, awarded the Palme d’Or and the Jury Special Mention for Shorts Films.

UN CERTAIN REGARD

• UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE

GRÄNS by Ali ABBASI

• PRIZE FOR BEST SCREENPLAY

SOFIA by Meryem BENM’BAREK

• PRIZE FOR BEST PERFORMANCE

Victor POLSTER for GIRL by Lukas DHONT

• PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTOR

Sergei LOZNITSA for DONBASS

• JURY SPECIAL PRIZE

CHUVA É CANTORIA NA ALDEIA DOS MORTOS (The Dead and the Others) by João SALAVIZA and Renée NADER MESSORA

• CAMÉRA d’Or

GIRL directed by Lukas DHONT presented as part of UN CERTAIN REGARD

Ursula Meier, President of the Caméra d’Or Jury, awarded the CAMÉRA d’Or Prize.

CINÉFONDATION

The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury awarded the 2018 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre. Bertrand Bonello headed the jury.

The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 17 student films, chosen out of 2,426 entries coming from 512 film schools around the world.

• FIRST PRIZE

EL VERANO DEL LEÓN ELÉCTRICO (The Summer of the Electric Lion), directed by Diego CÉSPEDES

Universidad de Chile (University of Chile) - ICEI, Chile

• JOINT SECOND PRIZE

KALENDAR (Calendar) directed by Igor POPLAUHIN

Moscow School of New Cinema, Moscow, Russia

DONG WU XIONG MENG (The Storms in Our Blood) directed by SHEN Di

Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai, China

• THIRD PRIZE

INANIMATE directed by Lucia BULGHERONI

NFTS (The National Film and Television School), United Kingdom