After 11 days of an exceptional edition, the Jury of the 75th Festival de Cannes, chaired by French actor Vincent Lindon, surrounded by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, British-American actress and director Rebecca Hall, French director Ladj Ly, American director Jeff Nichols, Indian actress Deepika Padukone, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, Norwegian director Joachim Trier and Italian actress and director Jasmine Trinca, presented its winners’ list among the 21 films presented in Competition this year.
Feature Films
Palme d’or
Triangle of Sadness directed by Ruben Östlund
Grand Prix (jointly awarded)
Close directed by Lukas Dhont
Stars at Noon directed by Claire Denis
Award for Best Director
Park Chan-Wook for Heojil Kyolshim (Decision to Leave)
Award for Best Screenplay
Tarik Saleh for Walad Min al Janna (Boy from Heaven)
Jury Prize (jointly awarded)
EO directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Le Otto Montagne (The Fight Mountains) directed by Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix Van Groeningen
75th anniversary Prize
Tori et Lokita (Tori and Lokita) directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Award for Best Actress
Zar Amir Ebrahimi in Holy Spider directed by Ali Abbasi
Award for Best Actor
SONG Kang-ho in Broker directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Short Films
Palme d’or
Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya (The Water Murmurs) directed by Jianying Chen
Special Mention
Lori (Melancholy of my Mother’s Lullabies ) directed by Abinash Bikram Shah
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Prize
Les Pires (The Worst Ones) directed by Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret
Jury Prize
Joyland directed by Saim Sadiq
Best Director Prize
Alexandru Belc for Metronom
Best Performance Prize (jointly awarded)
Vicky Krieps in Corsage directed by Marie Kreutzer
Adam Bessa in Harka directed by Lotfy Nathan
Best Screenplay Prize
Mediterranean Fever directed by Maha Haj
“Coup de cœur” Prize
Rodeo directed by Lola Quivoron
Caméra d’or
War Pony directed by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, presented as part of the Un Certain Regard Official Selection
Special Mention
Plan 75 directed by Hayakawa Chie
First Prize
Il Barbiere Complottista (A Conspiracy Man) directed by Valerio Ferrara
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy
Second Prize
Di Er (Somewhere) directed by LI Jiahe
Hebei University of Science and Technology School of Film and Television, China
Joint Third Prize
Glorious Revolution directed by Masha Novikova
London Film School, England
Les Humains Sont Cons Quand Ils S’Empilent (Humans Are Dumber When Crammed up Together) directed by Laurène Fernandez
La CinéFabrique, France
Higher Technical Commission (CST)
The CST jury has awarded the CST Artist-Technician Award 2022 to the entire sound crew headed up by Andréas Franck, Bent Holm, Jacob Ilgner and Jonas Rudels for the film Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund and the CST Young Film Technician Award to Marion Burger, head set designer for the film Un Petit Frere (Mother and Son) by Léonor Serraille.
Comment / Laurence Johnson, sustainability manager, Film London