Headed by Pedro Almodóvar, the 2017 Cannes Film Festival jury — also featuring Maren Ade, Jessica Chastain, Fan Bingbing, Agnès Jaoui, Park Chan-wook, Will Smith, Paolo Sorrentino, and Gabriel Yared — handed out their winners for the films in competition. Leading the pack is Ruben Östlund‘s Force Majeure follow-up The Square, which picked up the Palme d’Or, while Sofia Coppola earned Best Director — the first woman to do so since 1961, when Yuliya Solntseva won for Chronicle of Flaming Years, and only the second in Cannes history. Joaquin Phoenix and Diane Kruger picked up the top acting awards, while Nicole Kidman was given a special prize for the four projects she brought to Cannes.
Ahead of our picks for our favorite films (update: see them here), check out the complete list of winners below, along with other sections, as well as the jury’s discussion of their picks, as well as separate press conferences for each winner in the main section. One can also click the titles for our reviews where available.
Cannes Competition
Palme d’Or: The Square
Grand Prix: 120 Beats Per Minute
Jury Prize: Loveless
70th Anniversary Award: Nicole Kidman
Best Director: Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled
Best Actress: Diane Kruger, In the Fade
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Best Screenplay (tie): Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Lynne Ramsay for You Were Never Really Here
Camera d’Or (best debut film): Leonor Serraille, Jeune Femme
Short Film Prize: A Gentle Night, Qiu Yang
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Prize: Lerd (Un Homme Integre – A Man of Integrity), Mohammad Rasoulof
Best Actress: Jasmine Trinca, Fortunata
Best Poetic Narrative: Barbara, Mathieu Amalric
Best Director: Taylor Sheridan, Wind River
Jury Prize: April’s Daughter, Michel Franco
Directors Fortnight
Art Cinema Award: The Rider, Chloe Zhao
Europa Cinemas Label Award: A Ciambra, Jonas Carpignano
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Let the Sunshine In and Lover For a Day
Illy Short Film Prize: Back to Genoa City, Benoit Grimalt
International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci)
Prize in the Official Selection / Competition: 120 Beats Per Minute, Robin Campillo
Prize in the Official Selection / Un Certain Regard: Closeness (Tesnota), Kantemir Balagov
Prize to a first or second film in the parallel sections, Directors’ Fortnight or La Semaine de la Critique: The Nothing Factory (A fábrica de nada), Pedro Pinho
See our complete Cannes coverage below.
