Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' Earns 6-Minute Standing Ovation At Cannes Film Festival
This year’s Cannes Film Festival, which was also the 50th anniversary of the event, has just concluded and have announced their winners.
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Along with winners, different film distribution companies, including Netflix and A24, have acquired multiple films from the festival. Netflix bought Girl and Happy as Lazzaro. A24 purchased Climax, which many have described as a darker version of the dance movie Step Up.
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There were also big name movies that premiered at the festival. The newest movie in the Star Wars franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Movie premiered. Spike Lee also premiered BlacKKKlansmen, which won over the audience.
Full list of Cannes Film Festival winners below!
Palme d’Or: Shoplifters Hirokazu Kore-eda
Grand Prix: BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
Actor: Marcello Fonte, Dogman
Actress: Samal Yeslyamova, Ayka
Jury Prize: Nadine Labaki, Capernaum
Screenplay — TIE: Alice Rohrwacher, Happy as Lazzaro AND Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar, 3 Faces
Special Palme d’Or: Jean-Luc Godard
Un Certain Regard Award: Ali Abbasi, Border
Best Director: Sergei Loznitsa, Donbass
Best Performance: Victor Polster, Girl
Best Screenplay: Meryem Benm’Barek, Sofia
Special Jury Prize: João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora, The Dead and the Others
Art Cinema Award: Climax (Gaspar Noé)
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: The Trouble With You (Pierre Salvadori)
Europa Cinemas Label: Lucia’s Grace (Gianni Zanasi)
Illy Short Film Award: Skip Day (Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas)
Grand Prize: Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt)
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Woman at War (Benedikt Erlingsson)
GAN Foundation Award for Distribution: Sir
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Felix Maritaud, Sauvage.
Short Film: Hector Malot – The Last Day Of The Year (Jacqueline Lentzou)
Competition: Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Un Certain Regard: Girl (Lukas Dhont)
Directors’ Fortnight/Critics’ Week: One Day (Zsófa Szilagyi)
First Prize: The Summer of the Electric Lion Diego Céspedes
Second Prize — TIE: Calendar Igor Poplauhin AND The Storms in Our Blood Shen Di
Third Prize: Inanimate Lucia Bulgheroni
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