A year after collecting his second Palme d‘Or for “The Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Östlund finds himself on the other end of the equation at the Cannes Film Festival, overseeing the official competition jury awarding this year’s prizes.
The first of the prizes in official competition went to Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho, who plays a working-class Tokyo man in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days.” The character spends his mornings cleaning public toilets around the city, while leaving himself free time to read books, raise trees and observe the people around him.
Best actress was given to Turkish actor Merve Dizdar, who plays a rural school teacher who challenges the self-centered male protagonist in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s dense, philosophical “About Dry Grasses.”
Östlund is co-presenting the awards with fellow jurors Paul Dano and Brie Larson, Moroccan director Maryam Touzani, French actor Denis Ménochet, British-Zambian writer-director Rungano Nyoni, Afghan author Atiq Rahimi, Argentinian writer-director Damián Szifrón and “Titane” director Julia Ducournau (another Palme d’Or winner).
A separate jury decides the Camera d’Or prize for best first feature. That award went to Vietnamese director Thien An Pham’s three-hour art film “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section.
Full list of prizes below.
COMPETITION
Palme d’Or: TBA
Grand Prix: TBA
Director: TBA
Actor: Kōji Yakusho, “Perfect Days”
Actress: Merve Dizdar, “About Dry Grasses”
Jury Prize: TBA
Screenplay: TBA
OTHER PRIZES
Camera d’Or: “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” Thien An Pham
Short Films Palme d’Or: “27,” Flóra Anna Buda.
Short Films Special Mention: “Fár,” Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Golden Eye Documentary Prize: TBA
Queer Palm: “Monster”
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Un Certain Regard Award: “How to Have Sex,” Molly Manning Walker
Jury Prize: Asmae El Moudir, “Hounds”
Best Director Prize: “The Mother of All Lies,” Asmae El Moudir
Freedom Prize: “Goodbye Julia,” Mohamed Kordofani
Ensemble Prize: “The Buriti Flower,” João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora, cast and crew
New Voice Prize: “Omen,” Baloji
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
Europa Cinemas Label: “Creatura,” Elena Martín
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: “A Prince,” Pierre Creton
CRITICS’ WEEK
Grand Prize: “Tiger Stripes,” Amanda Nell Eu
French Touch Prize: “It’s raining in the house,” Paloma Sermon-Daï
GAN Foundation Award for Distribution: Pyramide Films, “Inshallah a boy”
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Jovan Ginić, “Lost Country”
