Sean Baker's 'Anora' has won the Cannes Film Festival's top award.
This Barbie is a president. No, we’re not talking about Issa Rae’s character from the box-office-smashing Barbie film, but rather the director of Barbie herself, Greta Gerwig. Fresh off an über-successful year, in which her doll-inspired film made her the first woman with a sole directing credit on a billion-dollar movie, Gerwig is making history yet again, as the first American female director to serve as jury president of the Cannes Film Festival.The 2024 edition of the annual festival opened...
Cannes this year opened with a promise from its long-serving director, Thierry Frémaux, that political controversy would not be on the programme – or at least would be confined to its cinema screens. And at tonight’s closing ceremony, the jury lived up to that pledge, awarding the Palme d’Or to the festival’s most nakedly crowd-pleasing film.
Sean Baker’s ANORA, which stars Armenian actors Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan, has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.. Karren Karagulian is a regular in Sean Baker’s films, having starred in all of the director’s films. In his speech, Sean Baker called the actor his “lucky charm” due to their collaboration spanning …
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“Three Kilometers to the End of the World”, a film directed by Emanuel Pârvu, received the Queer Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. The award, established in 2010, rewards diversity. The award was handed to director Emanuel Pârvu by Lukas Dhont who also read the jury’s motivation: “A harsh and precious breakdown […]
Neon has won the Palme d’Or five times in a row, with Sean Baker’s Anora as its latest win.
The closing ceremony takes place today (May 25) at 18:45 CEST (17.45 BST)
Sean Baker takes home Palme d’Or for Anora.
As the first American female filmmaker to be president of the Cannes Film Festival jury, Greta Gerwig has been sporting a number of elevated looks.
Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to share best acting award in the film Emilia PérezPeter Bradshaw: Anora is a vivacious surprise winner and a fitting end to the festivalAnora, a tragi-comic modern-day Cinderella story about a stripper who marries a multimillionare, made by the American director Sean Baker, has won the coveted Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.Baker, 53, dedicated the award to “all sex workers past and present” as he accepted the honour from the Star...
Sean Baker is the first American filmmaker to win the Palme d'Or since Terrence Mallick in 2012.