Cannes 2021 winners: who won the Palme d’Or?

The 2021 Cannes Film Festival officially ends with the awards ceremony, during which the jury for this year’s competition will nominate the best films and performances of the festival. With Spike Lee as chairman, the jury included director Mati Diop, singer / songwriter Mylène Farmer, actress / director Maggie Gyllenhaal, screenwriter / director Jessica Hausner, actress / director Mélanie Laurent, screenwriter / director Kleber Mendonça Filho, actor Tahar Rahim and actor Song Kang-ho. Find below the complete list of winners, updated as the ceremony unfolds.

While there is never any exact science to predict who and what will win big at the Cannes Film Festival, IndieWire has presented predictions for the Palme d’Or here. Since the 2020 festival was canceled due to the pandemic, the last film to win the Palme d’Or (the festival’s first prize) was Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” in 2019 – a film that has gone so far. Oscars, winning the award for best Imagine the following year.

This year’s jury is spoiled for choice, with new films from Leos Carax, Wes Anderson, Julia Ducournau, Paul Verhoeven, Asghar Farhadi, Sean Baker and many more playing the festival in competition. As tradition dictates, the big winners of the festival will be screened again for those who are still in France on Sunday.

In a return to form after two years, this year’s Cannes offered a wide range of cinematic experiences, from bigger studio prizes like “The French Dispatch” by Anderson and Matt Damon in “Stillwater” by Tom McCarthy. to the provocative new entries of Ducournau (“Titane”) and Carax (“Annette”).

At the start of the festival, Jodie Foster kicked off by receiving the Palme d’Or of honor for the festival. A Palm of Honor is also awarded to Marco Bellocchio during the ceremony.

Awards at Certain Regard and Critics’ Week were also announced. Kira Kovalenko’s “Unclenching the Fists” won the first Un Certain Regard prize from a jury led by Andrea Arnold, who created his own documentary, “Cow”, out of competition at Cannes. In the framework of the Critics’ Week, “Plumes” by Omar El Zohairi won first prize from a jury headed by Cristian Mungiu, himself Palme d’Or 2007 for “4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days “.

Palme d’Or : “Titanium”

Grand Prize:

Jury Prize:

Best Actress:

Best actor: Caleb Landry Jones, “Nitram”

Best Director:

Best screenplay:

Golden Camera: “Murina” by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović

Palme d’Or for the short film: Tian Xia Wu Ya by Tang Yi

Special mention from the jury for the short film: “Ceu de Agosto” by Jasmin Tenucci

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