Cannes Film Festival 2019 Award Winners: PARASITE, ATLANTICA, THE YOUNG AHMED, & More

Cannes Film Festival 2019 Award Winners

Parasite, Atlantica, The Young Ahmed, and the other award winners of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival have been announced. The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes), ”founded in 1946, is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France.”

The 2019 Cannes Film Festival 2019 awards were handed out in the Grand Théâtre Lumièreb in Cannes, France.

Cannes Film Festival 2019 Award Winners

Palme d’Or
Parasite, dir: Bong Joon-ho

Grand Prize
Atlantics, dir: Mati Diop

Best Actor
Antonio Banderas; Pain And Glory

Jury Prize (TIE)
Les Misérables, dir: Ladj Ly
Bacurau, dirs: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles

Best Director(s)
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Young Ahmed

Best Actress
Emily Beecham, Little Joe

Best Screenplay
Céline Sciamma, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

Special Mention
It Must Be Heaven, dir: Elia Suleiman

Camera d’Or
Our Mothers, dir: Cesar Diaz

Short Film Palme d’Or
The Distance Between Us And The Sky, dir: Vasilis Kekatos
Special Mention: Monster God, dir: Agustina San Martin

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