CANNES 2025: LIST OF AWARD WINNERS

All the winners from this year’s Cannes film festival, across official selection, Critics Week, Directors Fortnight and the Immersive Competition.

COMPETITION:

Palme d'Or: It Was Just An Accident, dir: Jafar Panahi [PICTURED ABOVE]

Grand Prix: Sentimental Value, dir: Joachim Trier

Joint Jury Prize:
Sirât, dir: Oliver Laxe
Sound Of Falling, dir: Mascha Schilinski

Best Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent

Best Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Jeunes Mères

Best Performance By An Actress: Nadia Melliti, The Little Sister, directed By Hafsia Herzi

Best Performance By An Actor: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent, directed By Kleber Mendonça Filho

Special Award: Resurrection, dir: Bi Gan

Short Films Palme d'Or: I’m Glad You’re Dead Now, dir: Tawfeek Barhom

Special Mention: Ali, dir: Adnan Al Rajeev

UN CERTAIN REGARD:

Un Certain Regard Prize: The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo, dir: Diego Céspedes

Jury Prize: A Poet, dir: Simón Mesa Soto

Best Directing: Arab & Tarzan Nasser, Once Upon A Time In Gaza

Best Actor: Frank Dillane, Urchin, directed by Harris Dickinson

Best Actress: Cleo Diára, I Only Rest In The Storm, directed by Pedro Pinho

Best Screenplay: Pillion, Harry Lighton

CAMERA D'OR

Caméra d'or Prize: The President’s Cake, dir: Hasan Hadi
Directors’ Fortnight

Special Mention: My Father’s Shadow, dir: Akinola Davies Jr
Un Certain Regard

CRITICS WEEK:

AMI Paris Grand Prize: A Useful Ghost, dir: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

French Touch Prize of the Jury: Imago, dir: Deni Oumar Pitsaev

Gan Foundation Award for Distribution: Left-Handed Girl, dir: Shih-Ching Tsou

Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Théodore Pellerin, Nino

SACD Award for best screenplay: Guillermo Galoe & Victor Alonso-Berbel, Sleepless City

Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for short film: L’mina, dir: Randa Maroufi

Canal+ Award for short film: Erogenesis, dir: Xandra Popescu

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT:

People’s Choice Award: The President’s Cake, dir: Hasan Hadi

LE CINEF:

First Prize: First Summer, dir: Heo Gayoung
KAFA, South Korea

Second Prize: 12 Moments Before The Flag-Raising Ceremony, dir: Qu Zhizheng
Beijing Film Academy, China

Joint Third Prize:

Ginger Boy, dir: Miki Tanaka
ENBU Seminar, Japan

Winter In March, dir: Natalia Mirzoyan
Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

IMMERSIVE COMPETITION:

Best Immersive Work: From Dust, created by Michel van der Aa