Cannes 2026 Awards: Mungiu Wins His Second Palme d’Or for ‘Fjord’
by Alex Billington Could 23, 2026Source: Cannes
Winners of the 2026 Cannes Movie Competition awards, together with the coveted Palme d’Or, had been revealed at a glamorous ceremony in Cannes, France this weekend. The awards this 12 months had been once more solely stunning and a bit unusual, with many movies each liked and hated profitable awards and the jury selecting just a few that nobody thought would get a lot. The highest prize Palme d’Or went to Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu and his newest movie titled Fjord set in Norway. That is really Mungiu’s second Palme d’Or in Cannes historical past – he received as soon as earlier than for his abortion movie 4 Months, 3 Weeks and a couple of Days in 2007 (19 years in the past). This win has triggered fairly a stir amongst critics – many love the movie, whereas many others dislike it, and there is a large debate about what it means + what Mungiu is saying (and if that is good or dangerous). Different main winners embrace the Russian movie Minotaur getting the Grand Prix second place (as an alternative of the Palme), Lukas Dhont’s Coward getting Finest Actor for each of its lead actors, and Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden getting Finest Actress for each of its lead actresses (who’re each phenomenal on this movie). Whether or not or not the winners are what you’d choose should you had been on the jury, these wins are inflicting fairly the commotion and hopefully it will convey extra consideration to worldwide cinema. An interesting mixture of my prime movies and a few of my least favorites profitable.
This is the total listing of Cannes 2026 winners, with a lot of the key awards listed under, together with Un Sure Regard. I will get into my very own commentary after the winners. Go to the official Cannes web site for more information.
Palme d’Or (Golden Palm):Fjord directed by Cristian Mungiu
Grand Prix (Runner Up):Minotaur directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Jury Prize:The Dreamed Journey (Das Geträumte Abenteuer) directed by Valeska Grisebach
Finest Director:Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo for The Black Ball (La Bola Negra)(tied with) Pawel Pawlikowski for Fatherland (Vaterland)
Finest Screenplay:Emmanuel Marre for A Man of His Time (Notre Salut)
Digicam d’Or (First-Time Filmmaker):Ben’imana directed by Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo
Finest Efficiency by an Actress:Virginie Efira & Tao Okamoto in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden (Soudain)
Finest Efficiency by an Actor:Emmanuel Macchia & Valentin Campagne in Lukas Dhont’s Coward
Un Sure Regard
Un Sure Regard Prize:Everytime directed by Sandra Wollner
Jury Prize:Elephants within the Fog directed by Abinash Bikram Shah
Particular Jury Prize:Iron Boy directed by Louis Clichy
Finest Actress:Marina de Tavira, Daniela MarÃn Navarro, Mariangel Villegas for Without end Your Maternal Animal (Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno)
Finest Actor:Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset for Congo Boy
That is all the large winners at Cannes this 12 months. Congrats to all the 2026 competition movies! As for my ideas, effectively it occurred once more. For the second 12 months in a row, the movie that really deserved to win (Minotaur) ended up getting the second place Gran Prix as an alternative. And a political choose for the Palme d’Or acquired the large win. I additionally wasn’t keen on final 12 months’s Palme for Jafar Panahi’s It Was Simply an Accident. However I am much more bothered by Fjord profitable this 12 months as a result of I believe the movie is extraordinarily manipulative and frustratingly centered on the “center floor” of politics. And all of what it is making an attempt to do and say bothers me. Then again, I believe essentially the most good movies of the competition are Minotaur, All of a Sudden, and La Bola Negra, which take a a lot stronger political stance and attempt to train us about how we are able to make the world higher. Any of those would’ve been a significantly better Palme winner, however I suppose I’ll admit I am not shocked by what received. I’m, nonetheless, very comfortable to see the appearing awards go to Coward and to All of a Sudden as a result of these performances are great in each of those movies and so they deserve this recognition. On the finish of the day, it does not matter what wins awards it simply issues that audiences take the time to look at these movies, have interaction with them, and work together with them by contemplating what artwork stirs up and the way it makes folks really feel and the way it can result in actual change on this planet. Preserve a watch out for all these winners from Cannes + extra movies from the choice.
The 2026 jury was lead by Korean director Park Chan-wook as President, with: Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Chloé Zhao, Diego Céspedes, Isaach De Bankolé, Paul Laverty, and Stellan Skarsgård. This brings us to the top of our 2026 updates, one other 12 months overlaying Cannes wraps up with these competition awards.
