The Square won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday (28.05.17). The Ruben Ostlund-directed satire movie was awarded the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 70th edition of the festival on the French Riviera, seeing off competition from 18 rival movies to claim the coveted gong.
Cannes Film Festival 2017 winners:
Palme d’Or:
The Square
Grand Prix:
BPM
Jury prize:
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Loveless
70th-Anniversary award:
Nicole Kidman
Best director:
Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled
Best actress:
Diane Kruger, In the Fade
Best actor:
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Best screenplay:
Joint winners Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
Camera d’Or:
Leonor Serraille, Jeune Femme
