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The 75th Festival de Cannes winners' list

Festival de Cannes: After 11 days of an exceptional edition, the Jury of the 75th Festival de Cannes, chaired by French actor Vincent Lindon, surrounded by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, British-American actress and director Rebecca Hall, French director Ladj Ly, American director Jeff Nichols, Indian actress Deepika Padukone, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, Norwegian director Joachim Trier and Italian actress and director Jasmine Trinca, presented its winners' list among the 21 films presented in Competition this year.


Swati Bhat

Jury and Award Winners – Closing Ceremony 2022 © Valery Hache / AFP


Feature Films


Palme d'or

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS directed by Ruben ÖSTLUND


Grand Prix (jointly awarded)

CLOSE directed by Lukas DHONT

STARS AT NOON directed by Claire DENIS


Award for Best Director


Award for Best Screenplay


Jury Prize (jointly awarded)

EO directed by Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI LE OTTO MONTAGNE (THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS) directed by Charlotte VANDERMEERSCH & Felix VAN GROENINGEN


75th anniversary Prize

TORI ET LOKITA (TORI AND LOKITA) directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE



Award for Best Actress

directed by Ali ABBASI


Award for Best Actor

directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu



Short Films


Palme d'or


Special Mention

LORI (MELANCHOLY OF MY MOTHER'S LULLABIES) directed by Abinash Bikram SHAH



Un Certain Regard


Un Certain Regard Prize

LES PIRES (THE WORST ONES) directed by Lise AKOKA & Romane GUERET


Jury Prize

JOYLAND directed by Saim SADIQ


Best Director Prize

Alexandru BELC for METRONOM


Best Performance Prize (jointly awarded)

Vicky KRIEPS in CORSAGE directed by Marie KREUTZER

Adam BESSA in HARKA directed by Lotfy NATHAN


Best Screenplay Prize

MEDITERRANEAN FEVER directed by Maha HAJ


« Coup de cœur » Prize

RODEO directed by Lola QUIVORON



Caméra d'or


WAR PONY directed by Riley KEOUGH and Gina GAMMELL, presented as part of the UN CERTAIN REGARD Official Selection


Special Mention

PLAN 75 directed by HAYAKAWA Chie



La Cinef


First Prize


IL BARBIERE COMPLOTTISTA (A Conspiracy Man) directed by Valerio FERRARA Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italie


Second Prize


DI ER (Somewhere) directed by LI Jiahe

Hebei University of Science and Technology School of Film and Television, Chine


Joint Third Prize


GLORIOUS REVOLUTION directed by Masha NOVIKOVA

London Film School, Royaume Uni

La CinéFabrique, France




Higher Technical Commission (CST)


The CST jury has awarded the CST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN AWARD 2022 to the entire sound crew headed up by Andréas Franck, Bent Holm, Jacob Ilgner and Jonas Rudels for the film TRIANGLE OF SADNESS by Ruben Östlund and the CST Young Film Technician Award to Marion Burger, head set designer for the film UN PETIT FRÈRE (MOTHER AND SON) by Léonor Serraille.









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