One of the highlights of the festival was the annual ScriptEast awards held this year for the first time at the Polish pavilion. The top prize, the Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award 2019 for Best Eastern European Script went to Forever Hold Your Peace by Ivan Marinović from Montenegro.
The FIPRESCI International Critics awarded its top prize for best film in the main competition to It Must Be Heaven (France, Germany, Canada, Turkey) directed by Elia Suleiman.
The FNE FIPRESCI Critics ratings for the main Competition, Certain Regard, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics Week can be seen HERE.
Cannes Film Festival Prize Winners
Main Competition
Palme D’Or
Parasite / Gisaengchung (South Korea)
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
Grand Prix
Atlantique (France, Senegal, Belgium)
Directed by Mati Diop
Best Director
Young Ahmed / Le Jeune Ahmed (Belgium, France)
Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Jury Prize Ex-aequo
Les Misérables (France)
Directed by Ladj Ly
and
Bacurau (Brazil, France)
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Best Actor
Antonio Banderas for Pain and Glory / Dolor Y Gloria (Spain)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Best Actress
Emily Beecham for Little Joe (Austria, UK, Germany)
Directed by Jessica Hausner
Best Screenplay
Céline Sciamma for Portrait of Lady on Fire / Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu (France)
Directed by Céline Sciamma
Special Mention
It Must Be Heaven (France, Germany, Canada, Turkey)
Directed by Elia Suleiman
Short Film Competition
Palme D’Or
The Distance Between Us and the Sky
Directed by Vasilis Kekatos
Special Distinction of the Jury
Monstruo Dios
Directed by Agustina San Martin
Certain Regard Prizes
Main Prize
Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão / A Vida Invisivel De Euridice Gusmao (Brazil)
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Jury Prize
Fire Will Come / O Que Arde (Spain, France, Luxembourg)
Directed by Óliver Laxe
Best Performance
Chiara Mastroianni for On a Magical Night / Chambre 212 (France, Belgium, Luxembourg)
Directed by Christophe Honoré
Best Director
Kantemir Balagov for The Beanpole (Russia)
Special Jury Prize
Liberté (Spain, France, Portugal)
Directed by Albert Serra
Jury Coup De Coeur Ex-Aequo
A Brother’s Love / La Femme de mon frère (Canada)
Directed by Monia Chokri
and
The Climb (USA)
Directed by Michael Covino
Jury Special Mention
Joan of Arc / Jeanne (France)
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Camera D’Or
Our Mothers / Nuestras Madres (Belgium, France)
Directed by Cesar Diaz
Cinefondation
First Prize
Mano a Mano (France)
Directed by Louise Courvoisier
Second Prize
Hieu (USA)
Directed by Richard Van
Third Prize Ex-Aequo
Ambience (Palestine)
Directed by Wisam La Jafari
and
The Little Soul / Duszyczka (Poland)
Directed by Barbara Rupik
Produced by PWSFTviT Poland
Directors Fortnight
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize
An Easy Girl (France)
Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski
Europa Cinemas Label
An Easy Girl (France)
Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski
Illy Short Film Award
Stay Awake, Be Ready
Directed by An Pham Thien
Critics Week
Nespresso Grand Prize
I Lost My Body (France)
Directed by Jérémy Clapin
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize
Our Mothers (Belgium, France)
Directed by Cesar Diaz
GAN Foundation Award for Distribution
The Jokers Films, French distributor for Vivarium (Ireland, Belgium) directed by Lorcan Finnegan
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
A White, White Day (Iceland, Denmark, Sweden)
Directed by Hlynur Pálmason
Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film
She Runs
Directed by Qiu Yang
Canal Plus Award for Short Film
Ikki Illa Meint
Directed by Andrias Høgenni
Other Prizes
FIPRESCI International Critics Awards
Competition
It Must Be Heaven (France, Germany, Canada, Turkey)
Directed by Elia Suleiman
Un Certain Regard
The Beanpole (Russia)
Directed by Kantemir Balagov
Directors’ Fortnight / Critics’ Week
The Lighthouse (Canada, US)
Directed by Robert Eggers
Ecumenical Jury Prize
A Hidden Life (Germany, USA)
Directed by Terrence Malick
Commission Superieure Technique
ST Artist-Technician Prize
Flora Volpeliere editor and Julien Poupard set and lighting designer of
Les Misérables (France)
Directed by Ladj Ly
Special Mention
Claire Mathon DOP of
Portrait of Lady on Fire / Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu (France)
Directed by Céline Sciamma
and
Atlantique (France, Senegal, Belgium)
Directed by Mati Diop
Jury Special Mention
Lee Ha-jun artistic director of Parasite / Gisaengchung (South Korea)
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
Golden Eye Documentary Prize
Sama
Queer Palm
Portrait of Lady on Fire / Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu (France)
Directed by Céline Sciamma
