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2022 Cannes Film Festival Winners [Video]

Published on June 26, 2022

We cap off our coverage of every Cannes Film Festival edition with the press room presentations of all of the evening’s winners. Swedish helmer Ruben Östlund became part of an exclusive two-time Palme d’Or winner club edging out the expected favorite Lukas Dhont‘s Close. Triangle of Sadness will lead several Cannes comp premiered films for autumn festival premieres before multi-territory theatrical releases. Here are the individuals that the Cannes Vincent Lindon jury made happy.

Palme d’or
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS directed by Ruben ÖSTLUND

Grand Prix (jointly awarded) – CLOSE / Lukas DHONT

Grand Prix (jointly awarded) – STARS AT NOON / Claire DENIS

Best Director – PARK Chan-wook for DECISION TO LEAVE

Best Screenplay – Tarik SALEH for BOY FROM HEAVEN

Jury Prize (jointly awarded) EO / Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI
THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS / Charlotte VANDERMEERSCH & Felix VAN GROENINGEN

Prize of the 75th – TORI ET LOKITA / Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE

Best Performance by an Actress
Zar AMIR EBRAHIMI in HOLY SPIDER / Ali ABBASI

Best Performance by an Actor
SONG Kang-ho in BROKER / KORE-EDA Hirokazu

Caméra d’or – WAR PONY / Riley KEOUGH & Gina GAMMELL

Special Mention – PLAN 75 / HAYAKAWA Chie

Short Films: Palme d’or
THE WATER MURMURS directed by Jianying CHEN

Special Mention
LORI directed by Abinash Bikram SHAH

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).