Cannes 2024 Winners: Sean Baker's Anora Takes Palme d'Or
The 77th Cannes Film Festival winners were announced in May 2024, with Sean Baker's "Anora" taking the Palme d'Or in Cannes, France. Baker's film about a Brooklyn sex worker who impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch had been the talk of the Croisette all week. When the top prize was read out, the American director looked genuinely stunned, and the applause in the Palais des Festivals seemed to go on forever. It was a night that rewarded risk-takers, first-timers, and a few beloved veterans all at once.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival winners were revealed in May 2024, in Cannes, France. Sean Baker's "Anora" won the Palme d'Or, Payal Kapadia's "All We Imagine as Light" took the Grand Prix, and the jury prize went to Jacques Audiard's "Emilia Pérez."
- Sean Baker won the Palme d'Or for "Anora" at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, announced in May 2024, in Cannes, France.
- Payal Kapadia's "All We Imagine as Light" won the Grand Prix, one of the main competition's biggest prizes of the year.
- Jacques Audiard's "Emilia Pérez" won the Jury Prize, and its ensemble cast of Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Zoe Saldaña shared the Best Actress award.
- Jesse Plemons won Best Actor for his role in Yorgos Lanthimos's "Kinds of Kindness."
- Coralie Fargeat won Best Screenplay for "The Substance," and the Caméra d'Or for best first feature went to Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel for "Armand."
Frequently asked questions
What happened in Un Certain Regard?
Guan Hu's Black Dog claimed the top Grand Prize in Un Certain Regard. The Jury Prize went to Boris Lojkine's The Story of Souleymane , a film that kept turning up on stage all week. The directing prize was shared by Roberto Minervini for The Damned and Rungano Nyoni for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl . On the performance side, Anasuya Sengupta won for The Shameless and Abou Sangare for The Story of Souleymane . Louise Courvoisier's Holy Cow took the Youth Award, and Tawfik Alzaidi's Norah earned a Special Mention.
Who won in Cinéfondation and the FIPRESCI prizes?
Chidananda S. Naik's Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know... took the Cinéfondation first prize. Second prize was split between Asya Segalovich's Out of the Window Through the Wall and Nikos Kolioukos's The Chaos She Left Behind . Mansi Maheshwari's Bunnyhood won third prize. The FIPRESCI jury handed its Competition prize to The Seed of the Sacred Fig , its Un Certain Regard prize to The Story of Souleymane , and its parallel sections (first films) prize to Yôko Yamanaka's Desert of Namibia .
What did Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight award?
Critics' Week gave its Grand Prize to Federico Luis's Simon of the Mountain and the French Touch Jury Prize to Constance Tsang's Blue Sun Palace . Guil Sela's Montsouris Park won the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for short film, and Ricardo Teodoro was named a rising star for Baby . Leonardo Van Dijl's Julie Keeps Quiet picked up both the Gan Foundation Distribution Award and the SACD Award, while Cem Demirer's Noksan won the Canal+ Short Film Award. Over in Directors' Fortnight, Jonás Trueba's The Other Way Around took the Europa Cinemas Label, Sophie Fillières's This Life of Mine won the SACD French Film Award, and Matthew Rankin's Universal Language won the Audience Award. Andrea Arnold received the Golden Coach.
Which films took the festival's other honors?
The Queer Palm went to Emanuel Pârvu's Three Kilometres to the End of the World , with the short film Queer Palm going to Elena López Riera's Southern Brides . Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's Armand won the Caméra d'Or, and Chiang Wei Liang and You Qiao Yin's Mongrel earned a Special Mention. Nebojša Slijepčević's The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent won the Short Film Palme d'Or, with a Special Mention for Daniel Soares's Bad for a Moment . The Golden Eye documentary prize was shared by Raoul Peck's Ernest Cole: Lost and Found and Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir's The Brink of Dreams . The Immersive Competition award went to Colored by Tania de Montaigne, Stéphane Foenkinos and Pierre-Alain Giraud. Andrea Arnold's Bird received the Citizenship Award. The Seed of the Sacred Fig added the AFCAE Art House Award, with a Special Mention for All We Imagine as Light . A Chopard Award was also listed for Mike Faist and Sophie Wilde, though that pairing could not be independently confirmed. Editorial note: Details that remain unconfirmed are presented as such, and readers should treat any hedged claims accordingly.
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