The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival ended this weekend in the South of France with its most prestigious award, the Palme d’Or ( Golden Palm) for the best film given to ” Triangle of Sadness”, a Swedish dark comedy directed by Ruben Östlund and starring Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, and Woody Harrelson.
This is the second time Ostlund has won the prestigious prize, after his 2017’s movie The Square.
Song Kang Ho also made history as the first Korean male actor to win the best actor award as well as Park Chan Wook is the second Korean director to win Best Director.
The Cannes jury this year was led by French actor Vincent Lindon, supported by American actress and director Rebecca Hall, Indian actress Deepika Padukone, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, Italian actress and director Jasmine Trinca, Iranian actress and director Asghar Farhadi, French director Lady Ly, American director Jeff Nichols and Norweigian director Joachim Trier.
There were 21 films presented in the competition this year.
Here is a list of the winners:
– Palme d’Or: Ruben Ostlund for “Triangle of Sadness”(2022)
– Grand Prize: Shared by Lukas Dhont for “Close” (2022) and Claire Denis for “Stars at Noon” (2022)
– Best director: Park Chan-wook “Decision to Leave”.(2022)
– Best actress: Zar Amir Ebrahimi for “Holy Spider” (2022)
– Best actor: Song Kang-ho for “Broker” (2022)
– Best screenplay: Tarik Saleh for “Boy from Heaven” (2022)
– Jury prize: Shared by Jerzy Skolimowski for “EO” and Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen for “The Eight Mountains” (2022)
– Camera d’Or for best first film: Riley Keough and Gina Gammell for “War Pony” (2022)
– Best short film: Jianying Chen for “The Water Murmurs”(2022)
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