Cannes 2025 Award Winners: Updating Live

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The 2025 Cannes Film Festival awards have already been handed out. Each year, this esteemed French cinematic event recognizes new films with a range of accolades, such as those for the top director, actors (male and female), screenplay, Jury Prize, Grand Prize, and the highly sought-after Palme d’Or. Notably, the latter has been bestowed upon Sean Baker’s “Anora,” which later claimed the Best Picture award at the Oscars; Bong Joon Ho’s fellow Best Picture winner “Parasite”; as well as the Oscar-nominated European productions “Triangle of Sadness” and “Anatomy of a Fall.

ScreenRant was present at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival held between May 13 and May 24. During this time, a variety of films were screened that were competing for the major awards, such as Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme”, Ari Aster’s “Eddington”, Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love”, and Julia Ducournau’s “Alpha”. The awards have now been given out at the closing ceremony. The winners were chosen by this year’s jury, consisting of Juliette Binoche as chair, along with Hong Sang-soo, Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Jeremy Strong, and others. To see who took home the prizes, scroll down below:

Best Actor: Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

Best Actress: Nadia Melliti (The Little Sister)

Best Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho (The Secret Agent)

Best Screenplay: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Young Mothers)

Jury Prize: Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski) and Sirat (Oliver Laxe)

Grand Prize: Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

Palme d’Or: It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)

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2025-05-24 21:10