Last night, the jury of the 70th Festival de Cannes awarded the prestigious Palme d’Or to Ruben Östlund’s comedy drama The Square. The film, which boasts the likes of Domic West and Elizabeth Moss amongst its cast, as well as a stunning lead performance by Claes Bang, beat off competition from the likes of Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, Lynn Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here and 120 Battements Par Minute (BPM – Beats Per Minute), all of which were hotly tipped to take the top gong.
All of those movies did walk away with some kind of recognition, 120 Battements Par Minute (BPM – Beats Per Minute) taking the Grand Prix, Sofia Coppola taking the Best Director prize for The Beguiled and You Were Never Really Here Best Performance By An Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Screenplay, a prize shared with Yorgos Lanthimos’ superb The Killing Of A Sacred Deer.
Elsewhere Diane Kruger bagged Best Actress, and deservedly so for her work in the thriller Aus Dem Nichts (In The Fade), while Nicole Kidman scored the special 70th Anniversary award. The Australian actress had no fewer than four projects playing at this year’s festival. The Jury Prize went to the highly regarded Loveless.
Check out all of the winners in full below, and all of our coverage from Cannes 2017 over here.
PALME D’OR
THE SQUARE by Ruben ÖSTLUND
70th Anniversary Award
Nicole KIDMAN
GRAND PRIX
120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE (BPM – Beats Per Minute)
by Robin CAMPILLO
BEST DIRECTOR
Sofia COPPOLA for THE BEGUILED
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Joaquin PHOENIX in YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE by Lynne RAMSAY
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Diane KRUGER in AUS DEM NICHTS (In The Fade) by Fatih AKIN
JURY PRIZE
NELYUBOV (Loveless) by Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV
BEST SCREENPLAY EX-ÆQUO
Yorgos LANTHIMOS and Efthimis FILIPPOU for THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
Lynne RAMSAY for YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
SHORT FILMS
PALME D’OR
XIAO CHENG ER YUE (A Gentle Night) by QIU Yang
MENTION DISTINCTION BY THE JURY
KATTO (The Ceiling) by Teppo AIRAKSINEN
CAMÉRA D’OR
JEUNE FEMME (Montparnasse Bienvenüe) by Léonor SERRAILLE
presented at UN CERTAIN REGARD
The CST Jury decided to award the VULCAIN PRIZE FOR ARTIST-TECHNICIAN to: Josefin ASBERG for her remarkable artistic contribution to match the inventiveness of the film THE SQUARE.
