The Cannes Film Festival will announce its 2023 awards, including the Palme d’Or, at the closing ceremony on Saturday. TheWrap will update the list of winners as they are announced.
Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki’s gentle, deadpan character study “Fallen Leaves” won the Jury Prize, which is essentially Cannes’ third prize.
The best director award went to Tran Anh Hung for his rhapsodic film about love and cooking, “The Pot-au-Feu”
The best actor award went to Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, who plays a mild-mannered man who cleans toilets in Wim Wenders’ understated “Perfect Days.” The best actress award was won by Turkish actress Merve Dizdar for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses.”
Sakamoto Yuji won the screenplay award for “Monster,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s multi-perspective drama about young people.
Twenty-one films competed for La Palma this year, with a record seven of them coming from female directors. Films in competition include Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses,” Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” Aki Kaurismaki’s “Fallen Leaves,” May December, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster”, Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak”, Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days”, Tran Anh Hung’s “The Pot-au-Feu”, and Jonathan’s “The Zone of Interest” Glazer.
The jury was headed by the director of “Triangle of Sadness”, Ruben Ostlund, a two-time Palme winner, and was also made up of actors Paul Dano, Brie Larson and Denis Menochet and directors Julia Ducournau, Rungano Nyoni, Atiq Rahimi , Damian Szifron and Maryam Touzani. .
The Camera d’Or, an award given to the best debut feature in all sections of the festival, went to “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” by the Vietnamese-Singaporean director Phan Thien An. The film was screened in the sidebar of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
The Palme d’Or for the short film went to “27”, by Flora Ana Buda.
The winners:
palm d’or:
Big prize:
jury prize: “Fallen Leaves”, Aki Kaurismaki
best director: Tran Anh Hung, “The Pot-au-Feu”
best Actor: Koji Yakusho, “Perfect Days”
Best actress: Merve Dizdar, “About Dried Herbs”
Best screenplay: Sakamoto Yuji, “Monster”
gold chamber (Best First Feature): “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” Phan Thien An
Short Film Awards:
Short film Palme d’Or: “27”, Flora Ana Buda
Special mention: “Far”
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