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Jafar Panahi Palme d'Or Cannes, full list of prizes

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival concludes today with the Closing Ceremony and presentation of the coveted award, the Palme d’Or, which was awarded to Jafar Panahi for the film It Was Just an Accident.

The Jury, chaired by director Juliette Binoche, was tasked with awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 21 films in the Competition.  The jury included Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong.

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The Croisette has been a buzz so far with glamorous parties and red carpet fashion statements. Director Amélie Bonnin’s debut feature, Partir Un Jour, opened the festival with other highlight premieres from this year’s slate including Paul Mescal in The History of Sound; Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest; A Private Life starring Jody Foster; Ari Aster’s star-studded film Eddington, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone; Die My Love, with Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence;  New Wave, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Guillaume Marbeck, Aubry Dullin, and Zoey Deutch;  Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology of Water; and director Dominik Moll’s Dossier 137 starring Léa Drucker. 

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Judging by the enthusiastic audience applause, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, Jafar Panahi’s Simple Accident, Oliver Laxe’s Sirât, and Saeed Roustaee’s Women and Child were the stand-out films of the festival.

The drama Sentimental Value, directed by Joachim Trier, earned a remarkable 19-minute standing ovation, the longest at this year’s festival. The film features a strong ensemble cast including Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård, and Elle Fanning. This marks a reunion for Trier and Reinsve, who previously collaborated on his acclaimed 2021 Cannes entry, The Worst Person in the World, a role that earned Reinsve the Best Actress Prize.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) still holds the title for the longest applause at the Cannes Film Festival with an astonishing 22-minute standing ovation.

Look back at photos from the festival of the parties, press junkets, and premieres.

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