Sunday, May 24, 2026

2026 Cannes Film Festival Award Winners

COMPETITION

Palme d’Or
Fjord by Cristian Mungiu

Grand Prix
Minotaur by Andrey Zvyagintsyev 

Jury Prize
The Dreamed Adventure by Valeska Grisebach

Best Director
(TIE) Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for La bola negra AND Paweł Pawlikowski for Fatherland

Best Actress
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto for All of a Sudden 

Best Actor
Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne for Coward 

Best Screenplay
A Man of His Time

OTHER PRIZES

Camera d’Or
Ben’Imana, Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo

Short Film Palme d’Or
For the Opponents, Federico Luis

HONORARY PALMES D’OR
Peter Jackson, Barbra Streisand, and John Travolta

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Un Certain Regard Award
Everytime, Sandra Wollner

Jury Prize
Elephants in the Fog, Abinash Bikram Shah

Special Jury Prize
Iron Boy, Louis Clichy

Best Actress
Daniela Marín Navarro, Marina de Tavira and Mariangel Villegas, Forever Your Maternal Animal

Best Actor
Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset, Congo Boy

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT

Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film
Too Many Beasts, Sarah Arnold

SACD Prize for Best French Film
Shana, Shana Pinell

Audience Choice Award
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, Clio Barnard

Carrosse d’Or
Claire Denis

CRITICS’ WEEK

Grand Prize
La Gradiva, Marine Atlan

GAN Foundation Award for Distribution
A Girl Unknown, Zou Jing (Pyramide Distribution)

Rising Star Award
Aina Clotet, Alive

SACD Prize
Blerta Basholli and Nicole Borgeat, Dua

Canal+ Short Film Award
Vaterland or a Bule Named Yanto, Berthold Wahjudi

Discovery Prize for Short Film
Skinny Boots, Romain F. Dubois

IMMERSIVE COMPETITION

Best Immersive Work Award
Katábasis, Ugo Arsac

Special Mention
The Black Mirror Experience, David Bardos and Damià Ferràndiz

CINÉFONDATION AWARDS

First Prize
Laser-Cat, by Lucas Acher (NYC, United States)

Second Prize
Silent Voices, Nadine Misong Jin (Columbia University, United States)

Third Prize
(TIE) Never Enough, Julius Lagoutte Larsen (La Fémis, France) AND Growing Stones, Flying Papers, Roozbeh Gezerseh and Soraya Shamsi (Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, Germany)

OTHER AWARDS

L’Oeil d’Or Documentary Prize
Rehearsals for a Revolution, Pegah Ahangarani

Golden Eye Special Jury Prize
Tin Castle, Alexander Murphy

Queer Palm
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun

Queer Palm Discovery Prize
Flesh and Fuel, Pierre Le Gall

Queer Palm for Short Film
Silent Voice, Nadine Misong Jin

FIPRESCI Award (Competition)
Fjord, Cristian Mungiu

FIPRESCI Award (Un Certain Regard)
Ben’Imana, Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo

FIPRESCI Award (Parallel Sections)
A Girl Unknown, Jing Zou

Ecumenical Jury Award
Fjord, Cristian Mungiu

Cannes Soundtrack Award
Evgueni and Sacha Galperine, Minotaur

François Chalais Prize
Fjord, Cristian Mungiu

Citizenship Prize
Fjord, Cristian Mungiu

AFCAE Art House Cinema Award
A Man of His Time, Emmanuel Marre

Prix du Cinéma Positif
Coward, Lukas Dhont

Palm Dog
Yuri, La Perra

Palm Dog Special Mention
Lola, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

Trophée Chopard for Female Revelation of the Year
Odessa A’zion

Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year
Connor Swindells

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