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2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]

Published on July 24, 2023

Ruben Östlund, Maryam Touzani, Denis Ménochet, Rungano Nyoni, Brie Larson, Paul Dano, Atiq Rahimi, Damián Szifron and Julia Ducournau put the cards on the table and it is Justine Triet who reigned supreme winning the big daddy Palme d’Or prize. We were on hand to witness all the happy faces for the evening. Here is a look back at the winners.

Palme d’or
ANATOMY OF A FALL
directed by Justine TRIET

Grand Prix
THE ZONE OF INTEREST – directed by Jonathan GLAZER

Best Director
TRÂN ANH Hùng for THE POT-AU-FEU

Jury Prize
FALLEN LEAVES – directed by Aki KAURISMÄKI

Best Screenplay
SAKAMOTO Yuji for MONSTER directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu

Best Performance by an Actress
Merve DIZDAR in ABOUT DRY GRASSES directed by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN

Best Performance by an Actor
Kōji YAKUSHO in PERFECT DAYS directed by Wim WENDERS

Camera d’or
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell – Pham Thien An

Short Films
Palme d’Or: 27 – Flóra Anna Buda
Special Mention: Fár – Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]