Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comedian however devastating Brooklyn odyssey a couple of intercourse employee who marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch, has received the Cannes Movie Competition’s high award, the Palme d’Or.
Baker accepted the prize along with his film’s star, Mikey Madison, watching within the viewers on the Cannes closing ceremony Saturday. The win for “Anora” marks a brand new excessive level for Baker, the director of “The Florida Mission.” It’s additionally, remarkably, the fifth straight Palme d’Or received by indie distributor Neon, following “Parasite,” “Titane,” “Triangle of Unhappiness” and final 12 months’s winner, “Anatomy of a Fall.”
“This, actually, has been my singular objective as a filmmaker for the previous 30 years, so I’m not likely certain what I’m going to do with the remainder of my life,” mentioned Baker, laughing.
Sean Baker, proper, holds the Palme d’Or for the movie ‘Anora,’ alongside George Lucas throughout the awards ceremony of the 77th worldwide movie pageant, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, Could 25, 2024.
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However Baker, the primary American filmmaker to win the Palme since Terrence Mallick in 2012 with “The Tree of Life,” rapidly answered that his ambition would stay to “battle to maintain cinema alive.” The 53-year-old director mentioned the world wanted reminding that “watching a movie at house whereas scrolling via your cellphone, answering emails and half paying consideration is simply not the best way, though some tech firms would love us to assume so.”
“So I say the way forward for cinema is the place it began: in a movie show,” mentioned Baker.
Sean Baker, winner of the Palme d’Or for the movie ‘Anora,’ poses for photographers throughout the picture name following the awards ceremony on the 77th worldwide movie pageant, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, Could 25, 2024.
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Whereas “Anora” was arguably essentially the most acclaimed movie of the pageant, its win was a slight shock. Many anticipated both the mild Indian drama “All We Think about As Mild” or the Iranian movie “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” to win. Each of these movies additionally took house prizes.
It wasn’t the one jolt of the closing ceremony, although. Earlier than George Lucas was given an honorary Palme d’Or, his outdated buddy and typically collaborator Francis Ford Coppola appeared to current it to him, reuniting two of essentially the most pivotal figures of the final half-century of American moviemaking.
“All We Think about As Mild,” about sisterhood in fashionable Mumbai, received the Grand Prix, Cannes’ second-highest honor. Payal Kapadia’s second characteristic was the primary Indian in competitors in Cannes in 30 years.
The jury awarded a particular prize to Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” a drama made secretly in Iran. Days forward of the movie’s premiere, Rasoulof, going through an eight-year jail sentence, fled Iran on foot. His movie, which incorporates actual footage from the 2022-2023 demonstrations in Iran, channels Iranian oppression right into a household drama. The Cannes crowd met an emotional Rasoulof with a prolonged standing ovation.
Mohammad Rasoulof accepts the particular prize award for the movie ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ throughout the awards ceremony of the 77th worldwide movie pageant, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, Could 25, 2024.
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Coralie Fargeat’s physique horror movie “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore as a Hollywood actress who goes to gory extremes to stay youthful, received for finest screenplay.
“I actually consider that motion pictures can change the world, so I hope this film can be a bit of stone to construct new foundations,” mentioned Fargeat. “I actually assume we want a revolution and I don’t assume it has actually began but.”
Some thought Moore would possibly take finest actress however that award as a substitute went to an ensemble of actors: Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz for Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” a Spanish-language musical a couple of Mexican drug lord who transitions to a lady. Gascón, who accepted the award, is the primary trans actor to win a serious prize at Cannes.
“Emilia Perez” additionally received Cannes’ jury prize, giving a uncommon two awards at a pageant the place prizes are often unfold round.
Greatest actor went to Jesse Plemons for Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Sorts of Kindness.” Within the movie, three tales are instructed with largely the identical firm of actors. Plemons, a standout in a number of chapters, didn’t attend the closing ceremony.
Jury president Greta Gerwig, fourth from left, poses with jury members Pierfrancesco Favino, from left, Nadine Labaki, Lily Gladstone, J. A. Bayona, Eva Inexperienced, Omar Sy, Ebru Ceylan, and Kore-eda Hirokazu upon arrival on the awards ceremony throughout the 77th worldwide movie pageant, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, Could 25, 2024.
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Portuguese director Miguel Gomes received finest director for his “Grand Tour,” an Asian odyssey wherein a person flees his fiancée from Rangoon in 1917.
“Typically I get fortunate,” shrugged Gomes.
The Digicam d’Or, the prize for finest first characteristic throughout all of Cannes official alternatives, went to Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel for “Armand,” starring “The Worst Individual within the World” star Renate Reinsve. Tøndel is the grandson of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and Norwegian actor Liv Ullman.
In the course of the temporary awards ceremony, Lucas was to be given an honorary Palme d’Or. In the course of the pageant, Cannes gave the identical tribute to Meryl Streep and the Japanese anime manufacturing facility Studio Ghibli.
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