2025 Cannes Film Festival awards — see the full list of winners

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Lyvans Boolaky/Getty After 12 days packed to the gills with some of the best cinematic offerings to be found around the world, the jury of the 2025Cannes Film Festivalannounced this edition's big winners. French screen icon and jury presidentJuliette Binocheannounced the winner of the coveted Palme d'Or at the star-studded closing ceremony on Saturday.Jafar Panahi— the Iranian dissident filmmaker who has been arrested, jailed, and banned from filmmaking numerous times in his home country due to his powerful and provocative work — took home the top prize. It was Panahi'sfirst time back at Cannesin over 20 years after a 15-year travel ban imposed on him by the Iranian government was lifted in 2023. Panahi accepted the award from Binoche and co-presenterCate Blanchett. "What's most important now is our country and the freedom of our country," the prolific 64-year-old writer, director, and editor said in hisacceptance speech. "Let us join forces. No one should dare tell us what kind of clothes we should wear, what we should do, or what we should not do." The other big winners at this year's edition of Cannes included Danish-born, Norwegian filmmakerJoachim Trier'sSentimental Value, tipped by many as a shoo-in for the Palme. The family drama starringElle Fanning,Stellan Skarsgård, and Renate Reinsve — the star of Trier's previous, highly-lauded 2022 filmThe Worst Person in the World— took home the Grand Prix, the fest's most prestigious award behind the Palme. The Jury Prize, often awarded to early-career filmmakers and films with a greater degree of experimental verve, was split this year between Galician filmmaker Oliver Laxe's desert-tripping odysseySirât, and the form-bending, century-spanningSound of Falling, from rising German director Mascha Schilinski. Belgium's Dardenne brothers continued their decades-long winning streak at the South of France fest — they've won the Palme twice, for 1995'sRosettaand 2005'sThe Child, the Grand Prix for 2011'sThe Kid With a Bike, a special prize for 2022'sTori and Lokita, and Best Screenplay for both 2008'sLorna's Silenceand this year'sYoung Mothers. Want more movie news? Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free newsletterto get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. Joining Binoche on the jury were two American actors,Halle BerryandJeremy Strong; Payal Kapadia, the Indian filmmaker whoseAll We Imagine as Lightwon last year's Grand Prix; Alba Rohrwacher, the Italian star of many Cannes premieres and sister to Grand Prix and Best Screenplay winner Alice Rohrwacher; the prolific Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo; Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani; Dieudo Hamadi, the Congolese filmmaker whoseDownstream to Kinshasabecame the first film from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to compete at Cannes in 2020; and the Mexican master director Carlos Reygadas, who has won several prizes at previous editions of the festival. Narcosfans will be thrilled to see Pablo Escobar himself, Brazilian actorWagner Moura, listed among the big winners as the recipient of the Best Actor prize. Moura stars as Marcelo, a tech expert desperate to escape hitmen during Carnival in the Brazilian metropole of Recife inThe Secret Agent, the Competition entry that also won Kleber Mendonça Filho the Best Director prize. Read on for the full list of winners at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Cannes Film Festival FEATURE FILMSPalme d'Or:Un Simple Accident(It Was a Simple Accident), Jafar PanahiGrand Prix:Affeksjonsverdi(Sentimental Value), Joachim TrierJury Prize:Sirât, Oliver Laxe;Sound of Falling, Mascha SchilinskiBest Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho,O Agente Secreto(The Secret Agent)Best Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne,Jeunes Mères(Young Mothers)Best Actress: Nadia Melliti,La Petite Dernière(The Little Sister) by Hafsia HerziBest Actor: Wagner Moura,O Agente Secreto(The Secret Agent) by Kleber Mendonça FilhoSpecial Award:Kuang Ye Shi Dai(Resurrection), Bi Gan SHORT FILMSPalme D'or:I'm Glad You're Dead Now, Tawfeek BarhomSpecial Mention:Ali, Adnan Al Rajeev UN CERTAIN REGARDUn Certain Regard Prize:La Misteriosa Mirada Del Flamenco(The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo), Diego Céspedes, 1st FilmJury Prize:Un Poeta(A Poet), Simón Mesa SotoBest Directing:Arab & Tarzan Nasser forOnce Upon a Time in GazaBest Actor:Frank Dillane inUrchindirected by Harris DickinsonBest Actress:Cleo Diára inO Riso E A Faca(I Only Rest in the Storm) directed by Pedro PinhoBest Screenplay:Pillion, Harry Lighton, 1st Film CAMÉRA D'ORCaméra D'or Prize:The President's Cake, Hasan Hadi, Directors' FortnightSpecial Mention:My Father's Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr, Un Certain Regard LA CINEFFirst Prize:First Summer, Heo Gayoung Kafa, South KoreaSecond Prize:12 Moments Before the Flag-Raising Ceremony, Qu Zhizheng, Beijing Film Academy, China|Joint Third Prize:Ginger Boy, Miki Tanaka, Enbu Seminar, Japan;Winter in March, Natalia Mirzoyan, Estonian Academy Of Arts, Estonia SUPERIOR TECHNICAL COMMISSIONThe Cst Award for Best Artist-Technicianis presented to Ruben Impens, director of photography, and Stéphane Thiébaut, mixer ofAlpha, directed by Julia DucournauThe Cst Award for Best Young Female Film Technicianis presented to Éponine Momenceau, director of photography ofConnemara, directed by Alex Lutz More information on each winner can be found on theCannes Film Festival official site. 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