Kinds of Kindness, latest collaboration between Dublin’s Element Pictures and Yorgos Lanthimos, scoops award for Jesse Plemons’s performance
Karren Karagulian, Alex Coco, Mikey Madison, Sean Baker, Samantha Quan and Vache Tovmasyan pose with the Palme d'Or award for Anora at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Photograph: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPAhas ended with the awarding of the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s universally popular screwball comedy Anora.
Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan Finnegan Greta Gerwig’s jury managed to spread the love responsibly. There is usually some acclaimed film that wins nothing, but, in 2024, all the best received films went home with a gong. A “special award” went the way of Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof for his work on the vast political thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Rasoulof, sentenced by the Islamic Republic to eight years in prison, a fine and a whipping, fled the country and gave an impassioned speech here.
George Lucas receives the Honorary Palme d’Or award from Francis Ford Coppola at Cannes on Saturday. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty The Grand Prix, which counts as runner up, went to Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light, a luminous, touching film about a nurse in Mumbai. “Thank you very much to the Cannes film festival for having us here,” the young director said. “Please don’t wait 30 years to have another Indian film.” It has, indeed, been that long since an Indian film played in competition.
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