2025 Cannes Movie Pageant awards — see the total listing of winners

After 12 days packed to the gills with among the finest cinematic choices to be discovered all over the world, the jury of the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant introduced this version's massive winners.

French display screen icon and jury president Juliette Binoche introduced the winner of the coveted Palme d'Or on the star-studded closing ceremony on Saturday. Jafar Panahi — the Iranian dissident filmmaker who has been arrested, jailed, and banned from filmmaking quite a few instances in his dwelling nation on account of his highly effective and provocative work — took dwelling the highest prize. It was Panahi's first time again at Cannes in over 20 years after a 15-year journey ban imposed on him by the Iranian authorities was lifted in 2023.

Panahi accepted the award from Binoche and co-presenter Cate Blanchett.

"What's most vital now’s our nation and the liberty of our nation," the prolific 64-year-old author, director, and editor mentioned in his acceptance speech. "Allow us to be part of forces. Nobody ought to dare inform us what sort of garments we should always put on, what we should always do, or what we should always not do."

Denzel Washington gets into heated exchange with Cannes photographer Iran releases filmmaker Jafar Panahi from prison

The opposite massive winners at this yr's version of Cannes included Danish-born, Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's Sentimental Worth, tipped by many as a shoo-in for the Palme. The household drama starring Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, and Renate Reinsve — the star of Trier's earlier, highly-lauded 2022 movie The Worst Person in the World — took dwelling the Grand Prix, the fest's most prestigious award behind the Palme.

The Jury Prize, typically awarded to early-career filmmakers and movies with a larger diploma of experimental verve, was cut up this yr between Galician filmmaker Oliver Laxe's desert-tripping odyssey Sirât, and the form-bending, century-spanning Sound of Falling, from rising German director Mascha Schilinski.

Belgium's Dardenne brothers continued their decades-long successful streak on the South of France fest — they've received the Palme twice, for 1995's Rosetta and 2005's The Little one, the Grand Prix for 2011's The Child With a Bike, a particular prize for 2022's Tori and Lokita, and Finest Screenplay for each 2008's Lorna's Silence and this yr's Younger Moms.

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Becoming a member of Binoche on the jury had been two American actors, Halle Berry and Jeremy Robust; Payal Kapadia, the Indian filmmaker whose All We Think about as Gentle received final yr's Grand Prix; Alba Rohrwacher, the Italian star of many Cannes premieres and sister to Grand Prix and Finest Screenplay winner Alice Rohrwacher; the prolific Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo; Moroccan author Leïla Slimani; Dieudo Hamadi, the Congolese filmmaker whose Downstream to Kinshasa turned the primary movie from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to compete at Cannes in 2020; and the Mexican grasp director Carlos Reygadas, who has received a number of prizes at earlier editions of the pageant.

Narcos followers will likely be thrilled to see Pablo Escobar himself, Brazilian actor Wagner Moura, listed among the many massive winners because the recipient of the Finest Actor prize. Moura stars as Marcelo, a tech professional determined to flee hitmen throughout Carnival within the Brazilian metropole of Recife in The Secret Agent, the Competitors entry that additionally received Kleber Mendonça Filho the Finest Director prize.

Learn on for the total listing of winners on the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant.

FEATURE FILMS
Palme d'Or: Un Easy Accident (It Was a Easy Accident), Jafar Panahi
Grand Prix: Affeksjonsverdi (Sentimental Worth), Joachim Trier
Jury Prize: Sirât, Oliver Laxe; Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski
Finest Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, O Agente Secreto (The Secret Agent)
Finest Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Jeunes Mères (Younger Moms)
Finest Actress: Nadia Melliti, La Petite Dernière (The Little Sister) by Hafsia Herzi
Finest Actor: Wagner Moura, O Agente Secreto (The Secret Agent) by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Particular Award: Kuang Ye Shi Dai (Resurrection), Bi Gan

SHORT FILMS
Palme D’or: I’m Glad You’re Lifeless Now, Tawfeek Barhom
Particular Point out: Ali, Adnan Al Rajeev

UN CERTAIN REGARD
Un Sure Regard Prize: La Misteriosa Mirada Del Flamenco (The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo), Diego Céspedes, 1st Movie
Jury Prize: Un Poeta (A Poet), Simón Mesa Soto
Finest Directing: Arab & Tarzan Nasser for As soon as Upon a Time in Gaza
Finest Actor: Frank Dillane in Urchin directed by Harris Dickinson
Finest Actress: Cleo Diára in O Riso E A Faca (I Solely Relaxation within the Storm) directed by Pedro Pinho
Finest Screenplay: Pillion, Harry Lighton, 1st Movie

CAMÉRA D’OR
Caméra D’or Prize: The President’s Cake, Hasan Hadi, Administrators’ Fortnight
Particular Point out: My Father’s Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr, Un Sure Regard

LA CINEF
First Prize: First Summer time, Heo Gayoung Kafa, South Korea
Second Prize: 12 Moments Earlier than the Flag-Elevating Ceremony, Qu Zhizheng, Beijing Movie Academy, China|
Joint Third Prize: Ginger Boy, Miki Tanaka, Enbu Seminar, Japan; Winter in March, Natalia Mirzoyan, Estonian Academy Of Arts, Estonia

SUPERIOR TECHNICAL COMMISSION
The Cst Award for Finest Artist-Technician is offered to Ruben Impens, director of pictures, and Stéphane Thiébaut, mixer of Alpha, directed by Julia Ducournau
The Cst Award for Finest Younger Feminine Movie Technician is offered to Éponine Momenceau, director of pictures of Connemara, directed by Alex Lutz

Extra data on every winner might be discovered on the Cannes Movie Pageant official website.

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