{"id":689229,"date":"2026-05-23T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689229\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:32:14","slug":"cannes-film-festival-2026-award-winners-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689229\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Film Festival 2026 Award Winners \u2014 Full List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival<\/a> has come to a close after two weeks packed with new world cinema in the south of France. Saturday marked the annual awards<\/a> ceremony, in which the competition jury revealed the winner of the Palme d\u2019Or<\/a> and more prizes out of the Palais des Festivals<\/a>. The Palme went to Cristian Mungiu\u2019s \u201cFjord,\u201d his second Palme win after \u201c4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days\u201d in 2007 and the seventh consecutive win for the film<\/a>\u2018s North American distributor, Neon.<\/p>\n

Mungiu isn\u2019t the only repeat winner; \u201cFatherland\u201d filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, who won Best Director in a tie with \u201cThe Black Ball\u201d filmmakers Los Javis, also won Best Director in 2018 for \u201cCold War.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TUNER,<\/a> \"Gentle<\/a> <\/p>\n

South Korean director Park Chan-wook headed the jury as president, with the rest of the jurors including filmmakers Diego Cespedes, Laura Wandel, and Chlo\u00e9 Zhao; actors Isaach de Bankol\u00e9, Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, and Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd; and screenwriter Paul Laverty.<\/p>\n

The Camera d\u2019Or, the distinguished prize for best first feature across the entire festival, is decided upon by an independent jury.<\/p>\n

The short film jury featured filmmaker Carla Sim\u00f3n as president, deciding on the Short Film Palme d\u2019Or alongside artist\/actress Park Ji-Min, screenwriter\/producer Ali Asgari, actor\/director Salim Kechiouche, and director\/screenwriter Magnus von Horn.<\/p>\n

French actress Eye Haidara hosted the event, with an Honorary Palme d\u2019Or given to Barbra Streisand, who could not attend the festival in person but gave a video message thanking presenter Isabelle Huppert and Cannes for the award.<\/p>\n

IndieWire\u2019s favorite films<\/a> out of the Cannes competition included \u201cAll of a Sudden,\u201d \u201cThe Black Ball,\u201d \u201cFatherland,\u201d \u201cFjord,\u201d \u201cMinotaur,\u201d and \u201cPaper Tiger,\u201d all of which have been tipped to win prizes. The New York Times\u2019 Kyle Buchanan shared an X thread<\/a> with intel on what filmmakers and talent were invited back to the festival. Folks from \u201cAll of a Sudden,\u201d \u201cThe Black Ball,\u201d \u201cCoward,\u201d \u201cThe Dreamed Adventure,\u201d \u201cFatherland,\u201d \u201cFjord,\u201d and \u201cMinotaur\u201d were seen back at the festival, and all won prizes. From the YouTube red carpet live stream<\/a>, I spied \u201cFatherland\u201d director Pawel Pawlikowski, \u201cAll of a Sudden\u201d director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and his cast, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo and their \u201cBlack Ball\u201d cast, Lukas Dhont and the stars of \u201cCoward,\u201d and Andrey Zvyagintsev and his \u201cMinotaur\u201d actors among the returning attendees.<\/p>\n

For a refresh, the last six consecutive Palme d\u2019Or winners were also distributed by Neon in North America, including last year\u2019s \u201cIt Was Just an Accident,\u201d as well as Oscar Best Picture winner \u201cAnora.\u201d Other distributors could\u2019ve disrupted the streak, as Netflix acquired \u201cThe Black Ball\u201d<\/a> and \u201cGentle Monster,\u201d and Mubi has \u201cCoward,\u201d \u201cFatherland,\u201d and \u201cMinotaur.\u201d But no.<\/p>\n

Cannes Film Festival 2026 Award Winners<\/p>\n

Palme d\u2019Or: \u201cFjord,\u201d Cristian Mungiu<\/p>\n

Grand Prix: \u201cMinotaur,\u201d Andrey Zvyagintsev<\/p>\n

Jury Prize: \u201cThe Dreamed Adventure,\u201d Valeska Grisebach<\/p>\n

Best Director: Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, \u201cThe Black Ball\u201d; Pawel Pawlikowski, \u201cFatherland\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Actress: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, \u201cAll of a Sudden\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Actor: Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne, \u201cCoward\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Screenplay: \u201cA Man of His Time,\u201d Emmanuel Marre<\/p>\n

Camera d\u2019Or for Best First Feature: \u201cBen\u2019imana,\u201d Marie-Cl\u00e9mentine Dusabejambo<\/p>\n

Short Film Palme d\u2019Or: \u201cPara Los Contrincantes,\u201d Federico Luis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Cannes Film Festival has come to a close after two weeks packed with new world cinema…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3042,49,48,43877,75,28908,1554],"class_list":["post-689229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cannes","tag-entertainment","tag-festivals","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}