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 stage at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the Master of Ceremonies, Edouard Baer, welcomed the Feature Films 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!
Read on to find out all the award winners…
Feature Films
Palme D’Or (awarded by Cate Blanchett): Shoplifters directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Grand Prix (awarded by Benicio Del Toro and Chang Chen): BlacKkKlansman directed by Spike Lee
Jury Prize (awarded by Gary Oldman and Léa Seydoux): Capernaum directed by Nadine Labaki
Best Performance by an Actor (awarded by Khadja Nin and Roberto Benigni): Marcello Fonte – Dogman
Best Director (awarded by Abderrahmane Sissako, Kristen Stewart and Denis Villeneuve): Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War
Best Screenplay (awarded by Robert Guédiguian and Chiara Mastroianni): Alice Rohrwacher – Happy as Lazzaro AND Jafar Panahi – 3 Faces
Best Performance by an Actress (awarded by Ava Duvernay and Asia Argento): Samal Yeslyamova – Ayka
Special Palme D’Or: Jean-Luc Godard – Image Book
Other
Short Films Palme D’Or: Charles Williams – All These Creatures
Short Films Special Distinction by the Jury: Wei Shujun – On The Border
Camera d’Or: Lukas Dhont – Girl
Golden Eye Documentary Prize: TBA
Ecumenical Jury Prize: Nadine Labaki – Capernaum
Ecumenical Jury Special Mention: Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Queer Palm: Lukas Dhont – Girl
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Award: Ali Abbasi – Border
Best Director: Sergei Loznitsa – Donbass
Best Performance: Victor Polster – Girl
Best Screenplay: Meryem Benm’Barek – Sofia
Special Jury Prize: João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora – The Dead and the Others
Directors’ Fortnight
Art Cinema Award: Gaspar Noé – Climax
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Pierre Salvadori – The Trouble With You
Europa Cinemas Label: Gianni Zanasi – Lucia’s Grace
Illy Short Film Award: Patrick Bresnan & Ivete Lucas – Skip Day
Critics’ Week
Grand Prize: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt – Diamantino
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Benedikt Erlingsson – Woman at War
GAN Foundation Award for Distribution: Sir
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Felix Maritaud – Sauvage
Short Film: Jacqueline Lentzou – Hector Malot – The Last Day Of The Year
Fipresci
Competition: Lee Chang-dong – Burning
Un Certain Regard: Lukas Dhont – Girl
Directors’ Fortnight/Critics’ Week: Zsófa Szilagyi – One Day
Cinefondation
First Prize: Diego Céspedes – The Summer of the Electric Lion
Second Prize — TIE: Igor Poplauhin – Calendar AND Shen Di – The Storms in Our Blood
Third Prize: Lucia Bulgheroni – Inanimate
