After nearly two weeks of star-studded red carper parades, Cannes Film Festival concludes

The brief ceremony will precede the festival's closing night film, the Pixar animation 'Elemental'.

By ET Online and Agencies | May 28, 2023, 11.02 AM IST

One of cinema's most sought-after awards will be decided by this year's jury, presided over by two-time Palme winner Ruben Östlund, the Swedish director.

After 21 world premieres, nearly two weeks of red-carpet parades and hundreds of thousands of camera flashes, the 76th Cannes Film Festival concludes Saturday with the presentation of its top prize, the Palme d'Or.

One of cinema's most sought-after awards will be decided by this year's jury, presided over by two-time Palme winner Ruben Östlund, the Swedish director. The brief ceremony will precede the festival's closing night film, the Pixar animation 'Elemental'.

Any of the 21 films that played in Cannes' main competition lineup can win the Palme. Among the critical favorites of this year's festival are Jonathan Glazer's 'The Zone of Interest', a chilling Martin Amis adaptation about a German family living next door to Auschwitz; 'Fallen Leaves', Finish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki's deadpan romance; and 'Anatomy of a Fall', Justine Triet's twisty French Alps courtroom drama.

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'Anatomy of a Fall' grabs Cannes Palme d'Or
A jury chaired by last year's Palme d'Or winner, Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, added a little bit of history to the Cannes Film Festival by adjudging Justine Triet's 'Anatomy of a Fall' the best among the 21 films that competed for the Palme d'Or this year. But in doing so, it did not spring any surprise. Triet is only the third woman director to win the festival's top prize after Jane Campion ('The Piano', 2001) and Julia Ducournau ('Titane', 2021), who was also on the jury this year.

'Anatomy of a Fall' is about a popular novelist who is on trial for allegedly murdering her husband. The film is more than just a legal drama – it is a dissection of marriage, too.

'Anatomy of a Fall' and 'The Zone of Interest' were expected to be among the big winners at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

In 'The Zone of Interest', the Nazi atrocities take place off camera. The film focuses on the private life of a commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp played by Christian Friedel and his wife essayed by Sandra Huller (also the lead actress of 'Anatomy of a Fall').

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Big Winners
The Jury Prize was won by Aki Kaurismaki's 'Fallen Leaves', a remarkable film that looks for hope amid despondency through a love story of two people whose lives hang by a thread.

The best actor award was expectedly won by Koji Yakusho for his moving performance in Wim Wenders' Tokyo-set film 'Perfect Days'. He plays a man who cleans toilets by day and reads, listens to music and waters and photographs plants in his free time.

The best actress award came as a surprise – it went to Turkish actress Merve Dizdar for Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "About Dry Grasses", about a male art teacher accused of sexual misdemeanour.

Sakamoto Yuji won the best screenplay prize for Hirokazu Koreeda's "Monster", which also won the Queer Palm earlier in the day.

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