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.

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