Cannes Film Festival Winners Announced – Updating Live

Refresh for latest…: It’s the final day here at the Cannes Film Festival with prizes including the Palme d’Or due to be handed out across the next hour (scroll down for the list of laureates as we update live).

Among those to arrive on the red carpet this evening were Sentimental Value star Elle Fanning, Resurrection director Bi Gan and cast, Sirat director Oliver Laxe and Two Prosecutors director Sergei Loznitsa.

This final day got off to quite the bizarre start when, at about 10am local time, a mass power outage affected the region, cutting off electricity and greatly blocking cell service. The festival, however, was well prepared for such an odd scenario, pivoting to an independent power supply to keep the Palais juiced so that all scheduled events and screenings, including this Closing Ceremony, could proceed as planned. In the end, the lights came back on across town at about 3:30pm here — and the city heaved an audible sigh of relief. 

Otherwise, the past 10 days have gone down a treat, with the lineup of films being called the strongest in many years. The Competition films were well-reviewed except for an outlier or two, while outside of the Competition, there were such glossy events as the premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning with Tom Cruise bringing the mega-star wattage. 

As ever, Deadline timed the ovations inside the Palais, including one that saw the audience erupt with 19 minutes of praise. 

Although the length of applause is not always indicative of awards, that movie, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, is the one that Deadline’s critics are tipping as the likely Palme d’Or winner.

Other movies singled out by our critics include Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Bi Gan’s Resurrection, Mascha Schilinski’s The Sound of Falling and Sergei Loznitza’s Two Prosecutors. For all of their picks, see here.

The jury is presided over by Juliette Binoche this year, and while no one really ever knows which way the panel will swing, we’ll know more in just a little while. Check back for updates.

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