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Cannes Film Festival 2018 Announces Winners [FULL WINNERS LIST]

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!

COMPETITION

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

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

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT

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)

CRITICS’ WEEK

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)

FIPRESCI

Competition: Burning (Lee Chang-dong)

Un Certain Regard: Girl (Lukas Dhont)

Directors’ Fortnight/Critics’ Week: One Day (Zsófa Szilagyi)

CINÉFONDATION

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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