After a power outage threatened to delay Saturday’s closing ceremonies of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the occasion on the Grand Théâtre Lumière went off with out a hitch.
The Competition jury, which was led this 12 months by French actor Juliette Binoche, additionally included American actors Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, Italian actor Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan author Leïla Slimani, and administrators Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sang-soo, Payal Kapadia and Carlos Reygadas. It was they who determined the Festival’s best and the brightest, in a 12 months when a number of films generated buzz (and opened the pocketbooks of distributors).
Honorees included Brazilian actor Wagner Moura, who wasn’t on the ceremony—however was nonetheless named finest actor for his position in Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s political thriller The Secret Agent. In a Cannes rarity, it additionally took house a second award for finest director.
Other winners included Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose It Was Just an Accident gained the pageant’s prime prize, the Palme d’Or, simply days after distribution firm Neon picked up the American rights for the movie.
Read on for a full record of all of the winners on the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and click on over to our live blog for Vanity Fair‘s on-the-ground protection from the scene.
Palme d’Or
Jafar Panahi — It Was Just an Accident
Grand Prix
Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value
Jury Prize
Tie: Mascha Schilinski — Sound of Falling; Oliver Laxe — Sirat
Best Director
Kleber Mendonça Filho — The Secret Agent
Best Screenplay
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne — Young Mothers
Best Actress
Nadia Melliti —The Little Sister
Best Actor
Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent
Special Prize
Bi Gan — Resurrection
Camera d’Or for Best First Film
Hassan Hadi — The President’s Cake
Palme d’Or for Best Short Film
Tawfeek Barhom — I’m Glad You’re Dead Now
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