Complete List of Winners at the 78th Festival de Cannes

Official trailer of "UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT".

 

The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival held from May 13-24, 2025 in France opened with Leave One Day (French: Partir un jour), a 2025 French musical comedy drama film directed by Amélie Bonnin in her feature directorial debut. It was based on her 2021 short film Bye Bye, which won the César Award for Best Fiction Short Film at the 48th ceremony. It stars Juliette Armanet, Bastien Bouillon, François Rollin, Tewfik Jallab, Dominique Blanc, Mhamed Arezki, Pierre-Antoine Billon, and Amandine Dewasmes.

During the festival, two Honorary Palme d'Or were awarded: the first was awarded to Robert De Niro during the festival's opening ceremony and the second was awarded on short notice to Denzel Washington before the world premiere of Highest 2 Lowest.

Complete List of Winners at the 78th Festival de Cannes 

Jafar PANAHI won the highly coveted Palme d'Or for his film "UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT".

Jury

 Documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer Carlos Reygadas and American actor Jeremy Strong, presented its winners’ list among the 22 films presented in Competition this year.

Feature Films

Palme d’or
UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT
Jafar PANAHI

Grand Prix
AFFEKSJONSVERDI
(SENTIMENTAL VALUE)
Joachim TRIER

Joint Jury Prize
SIRÂT
Oliver LAXE

SOUND OF FALLING
Mascha SCHILINSKI

Best Director
Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO for O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT)

Best Screenplay
Jean-Pierre DARDENNE & Luc DARDENNE for JEUNES MÈRES

Best performance by an actress
Nadia MELLITI in LA PETITE DERNIÈRE directed by Hafsia HERZI

Best performance by an actor
Wagner MOURA in O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT) directed by Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO

Special Award
KUANG YE SHI DAI (RESURRECTION)

Bi GAN

Short Films

Palme d’or
I’M GLAD YOU’RE DEAD NOW
Tawfeek BARHOM

Special Mention
ALI
Adnan AL RAJEEV

Un Certain Regard
 
Un Certain Regard Prize
LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO (THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO)
Diego CÉSPEDES
1st film

Jury Prize
UN POETA (A POET)
Simón MESA SOTO

Best Directing
Arab & Tarzan NASSER
for Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Best Actor
Frank DILLANE
in Urchin directed by Harris Dickinson

Best Actress
Cleo DIÁRA
in O Riso e a Faca (I Only Rest in the Storm) directed by Pedro Pinho

Best Screenplay
PILLION
Harry LIGHTON
1st film

Caméra d’or
Caméra d’or Prize
THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE
Hasan HADI
Directors’ Fortnight

Special Mention
MY FATHER’S SHADOW
Akinola DAVIES JR
Un Certain Regard

La Cinef
First Prize
FIRST SUMMER
Heo GAYOUNG
KAFA, South Korea

Second Prize
12 MOMENTS BEFORE THE FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY
QU Zhizheng
Beijing Film Academy, China

Joint Third Prize
GINGER BOY
Miki TANAKA
ENBU Seminar, Japan

WINTER IN MARCH
Natalia MIRZOYAN
Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

Superior Technical Commission
 
THE CST AWARD FOR BEST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN is presented to Ruben Impens, director of photography, and Stéphane Thiébaut, mixer of ALPHA, directed by Julia Ducournau

The 2025 jury of the CST Award for best Artist-Technician acknowledges the powerful creativity of sound and image in this film, achieved by Ruben Impens, director of photography and Stéphane Thiébaut, mixer, of Alpha directed by Julia Ducournau.

THE CST AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG FEMALE FILM TECHNICIAN is presented to Éponine Momenceau, Director of photography of
CONNEMARA, directed by Alex Lutz

The 2025 jury of the CST Award for best Young, Female Film Technician is proud to present this year’s prize to Éponine Momenceau, director of photography of Connemara directed by Alex Lutz, for the delicacy and subtlety of the work on the images that accompany the film’s story and direction

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