By Sean Baker’s sex worker screwball comedy “Anora” has won the Palme d’Or at this year’s 77th Cannes Film Festival.
The winners of the Cannes awards this year were announced at a gala ceremony on Saturday night with “Tangerine” and “The Florida Project” director Baker being the first American director to win the top honor since Terrence Malick back in 2011 for “Tree of Life”.
NEON has already got the distribution rights to the film which marks the fifth year in a row they will release the Cannes top prize winner in the United States following “Parasite,” “Titane,” “Triangle of Sadness” and “Anatomy of a Fall”.
The second prize, known as The Grand Prix, went to Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine As Light” – the first Indian film to play in Cannes competition in thirty years.
Iranian political melodrama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” received a special award from the jury. Jacques Audiard’s gender-transitioning Mexican crime musical “Emilia Pérez” saw its entire female cast, including Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez, winning best actress and the film itself receiving a jury prize.
Best actor went to Jesse Plemmons for his three roles in Yorgos Lanthimos’ anthology film “Kinds of Kindness” – a submissive businessman, a grieving cop, and a bisexual cult member.
Miguel Gomez won Best Director for his work on “Grand Tour,” while Coralie Fargeat won Best Screenplay for “The Substance”. The Camera d’Or for Best First Film went to Halfdan Ullman Tondel’s “Armand”.
Source: THR
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