Earlier today, the winners of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival were announced. The big winner of the festival was Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, which won the Palme D’Or.
The film, which is the English-language debut for director Christian Munigiu, stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as religious Romanian parents who move into a small Norwegian community and end up accused of child abuse. The film has already been purchased for distribution by Neon, marking the distributor’s seventh film in a row to win the Palme d’Or. Other previous Palme d’Or winners distributed by Neon include Best Picture nominees and winners such as Parasite, Triangle of Sadness, and Anora.
Other big winners include Andreï Zviaguintsev’s Minotaur, which won the Grand Jury Award, and Emmanuel Marre, who won Best Screenplay for A Man of His Time.
This year’s festival also saw several ties, starting with the Best Director award, which went to co-directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for La Bola Negra and to Paweł Pawlikowski for Fatherland. The Best Actor prize was shared between Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne, the two leads of Lukas Dhont’s WWI-set queer drama Coward. Similarly, the best actress prize was shared between Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, the two leads of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden.
The full list of winners can be found both here and here.
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