Cannes Film Festival 2019 Awards: Updating Live - thewrap

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  • Author: Steve Pond
  • May 26,2019

Cannes Film Festival 2019 Awards: Updating Live - thewrap

The 72nd Cannes Film Festival is presenting the awards in its main competition on Saturday at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. TheWrap will update the winners live as they are announced.

The Jury Prize, which is essentially the third-place award, was shared by both “Les Miserables” and “Bacurau,” a sign that the jury was divided and wanted to reward as many films as possible. (They also created a special mention award for Elia Suleiman’s “It Must Be Heaven.”)

Emily Beecham won the best-actress award for her portrayal of a flower breeder in Jessica Hausner’s creepy “Little Joe.”

In something of a surprise, the jury gave its best-director award to the Dardenne brothers for “Young Ahmed,” their portrait of the radicalization of a Muslim teen.

Writer-director Celine Sciamma won the screenplay award for “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” a lesbian period romance that was one of the festival’s most acclaimed films.


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Cesar Diaz’s “Our Mothers” won the Camera d’Or, which goes to the best first film from any section of the festival. It screened in the independent International Critics’ Week section.

The jury was headed by director Alejandro G. Inarritu, one of six directors on the nine-person panel. The other directors were Pawel Pawlikowski, Kelly Reichardt, Robin Campillo, Yorgos Lanthimos and Alice Rorhwacher, with the panel filled out by actress Elle Fanning, author Enki Bilal and actress Maimouna N’Diaye.

The 21 films in the main competition also included Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life,” Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain and Glory,” Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die,” Ira Sachs’ “Frankie,” Xavier Dolan’s “Matthias & Maxime,” Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You,” Corneliu Porumboiu’s “The Whistlers,” Jessica Hausner’s “Little Joe” and the biggest bomb of the festival, Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-and-a-half-hour tribute to butts, “Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo.”

The winners:

Palme d’Or:
Grand Prix:
Best Director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, “Young Ahmed”
Best Screenplay: Celine Sciamma, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
Best Actor:
Best Actress: Emily Beecham, “Little Joe”
Jury Prize: (TIE) “Bacurau,” Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles; and “Les Miserables,” Ladj Ly
Special Mention: Elia Suleiman, “It Must Be Heaven”
Camera d’Or: “Our Mothers” (“Nuestras Madres”), Cesar Diaz

Palme d’Or, Short Film: “The Distance Between Us and the Sky,” Vasilis Kekatos
Short Film, Special Mention: “Monstruo Dios,” Agustina San Martin


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