2025 Cannes Film Festival: Full List of Winners
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2025 Cannes Film Festival: Full List of Winners


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The winners of the 78th Cannes Film Festival were announced Saturday night.

After a power outage threatened to delay Saturday's closing ceremonies of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the event at the Grand Théâtre Lumière went off without a hitch.

The Competition jury, which was led this year by French actor Juliette Binoche, also included American actors Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, Italian actor Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, and directors Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sang-soo, Payal Kapadia and Carlos Reygadas. It was they who decided the Festival's best and the brightest, in a year when a number of films generated buzz (and opened the pocketbooks of distributors).

Honorees included Brazilian actor Wagner Moura, who wasn't at the ceremony—but was still named best actor for his role in Kleber Mendonça Filho's political thriller The Secret Agent. In a Cannes rarity, it also took home a second award for best director.

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho accepts the Best Actor Prize on behalf of Brazilian actor Wagner Moura for the film "O Agente Secreto" (The Secret Agent) during the Closing Ceremony at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 24, 2025.VALERY HACHE/GETTY IMAGES

Other winners included Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose It Was Just an Accident won the festival's top prize, the Palme d’Or, just days after distribution company Neon picked up the American rights for the film.

Full list of all the winners at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival:

Palme d’Or

Jafar PanahiIt Was Just an Accident

Grand Prix

Joachim TrierSentimental Value

Jury Prize

Tie: Mascha SchilinskiSound of Falling; Oliver LaxeSirat

Best Director

Kleber Mendonça FilhoThe Secret Agent

Best Screenplay

Jean-Pierre and Luc DardenneYoung Mothers

Best Actress

Nadia MellitiThe Little Sister

Best Actor

Wagner MouraThe Secret Agent

Special Prize

Bi Gan — Resurrection

Camera d’Or for Best First Film

Hassan HadiThe President’s Cake

Palme d’Or for Best Short Film

Tawfeek BarhomI’m Glad You’re Dead Now


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