The Palme d’Or winner and the Best Director winners are 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel top graded films according to our twenty international film critics. Cristian Mungiu won his second Palme d’Or for Fjord and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland reign supreme while Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur (winner of the Grand Prix) finished second, and tied for third (with 3.4 average grade) we find Best Actor winning Coward by Lukas Dhont, Best Actress winning All of a Sudden by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Best Screenplay winning Notre Salut by Emmanuel Marre. Here are the final grades:
3.7 Fjord
3.7 Fatherland
3.6 Minotaur
3.4 Coward
3.4 All of a Sudden
3.4 Notre Salut
3.2 The Beloved
3.2 Paper Tiger
3.2 The Man I Love
3.1 Hope
3.0 The Black Ball
2.8 La Vie d’une femme
2.8 The Dreamed Adventure
2.8 Nagi Notes
2.7 Bitter Christmas
2.7 Gentle Monster
2.7 Moulin
2.6 Garance
2.5 The Unknown
2.4 Parallel Tales
2.3 Histoires de la Nuit
2.2 Sheep in the Box
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