The 71st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 8th to 19th May 2018 in Cannes, France.
i. Australian Actress Cate Blanchett acted as the president of the jury (for In competition Awards)
ii. The official festival poster of the Cannes Film Festival features Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 film Pierrot le Fou.
iii. Asghar Farhadi’s psychological thriller Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Ricardo Darín, opened the festival. It was the second Spanish –language film to open Cannes after Bad Education in 2016.
iv. The Closing Film was The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
v. The event was hosted by Eduoard Baer .
vi. Danish film director Lars von Trier returned to Cannes with his film The House That Jack Built, after he was declared “persona non grata” at the 2011 festival.
vii. There were 21 films for ‘in competition’ category and 18 films for ‘Un certain Award’ category.
Key Points :
Awards and their catagories:
- In competition
| Name of award | Winner | Film |
| Palm d’OR | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Shoplifters (Japan) |
| Grand Prix | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman (US) |
| Best Director | Pawel Pawlikowski | Cold War (Poland) |
| Best Screenplay | 1. Alice Rohrwacher 2. Jafar Panahi | 1. Happy as Lazzaro (italy) 2. 3 Faces (Iran) |
| Best Actress | Samal Yeslyamova | Ayka (Kazakhstan) |
| Best Actor | Marcello Fonte | Dogman (Italy) |
| Jury Prize | Nadine Labaki | Capernaum (Lebanon) |
| Special Palm d’Or | Jean-Luc Godard | The Image Book (Frace, Switzerland) |
- Un Certain Regard:
| Name of Award | Winner | Film |
| Un Certain Regard Award | Ali Abbasi | Border (Sweden, Denmark) |
| Un Certain Jury Award | Jaoa Salavia & Renee Nader Messora | The Dead and the Others(Brazil , Portugal) |
| Un Certain Award for Best Director | Sergei Loznitsa | Donbass (Germany, Ukraine, France , Netherlands, Romania) |
| Un Certain Award for Best Performance | Victor Polster | Girl (Belgium) |
| Uncertain Award for Best Screenplay | Meryem Ben’m Brek Aloisi | Sofia (Belgium) |
- Cinefondation
| Name of Award | Winner | Film |
| First Prize | Diego Cespedes | The Summer of the Electric Lion |
| Second Prize | 1. Igor Poplauhin 2. Shen Di | 1. Calendar 2. The Stroms in Our Blood |
| Third Prize | Lucia Bulgheroni | Inanimate |
- Cannes Classic :
2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick (United States).
- Director’s Fortnight:
Film: Climax , Directed by : Gasper Noe, Country : France .
- International Critics Week :
Film: Diamantino , Directed by : Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt , Countries : France , Portugal and Brazil.
- Independent awards:
i. FIPRESCI Prizes:
| Name of the Award | Winner | Film |
| In competition | Lee Chang-dong | Burning |
| Un Certain Regard | Lukas Dhont | Girl |
| Inernational Critic’s Week | Zsofia Szilagyi | One Day |
ii. Ecumenical Prize:
| Name of the award | Winner | Film |
| Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Nadine Labaki | Capernaum |
| Special Mention | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |
iii. International Critics’ Week:
| Name of the award | Winner | Film |
| Nespresso Grand Prize | Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt | Diamantino |
| Leica Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film | Jacqueline Lentzou | Hector Malot :The Last Day of the Year |
| Louis Roederer Foundatio Rising Start Award | Felix Maritaud | Sauvage |
| Gan Foundation Award for Distribution | Rohena Gera | Sir |
| SACD Award | Benedict Erlingsson and Olafur Egill Egilsson | Woman at War |
| Canal+ Award for Short Film | Elias Belkeddar | A Wedding Day |
iv. Directors’ Fortnight:
| Name of the Award | Winner | Film |
| Art Cinema Award | Gasper Noe | Climax |
| SACD Award | Pierre Salvadori | The Trouble with You |
| Europa Cinemas Label Award | Gianni Zanasi | Lucia’s Grace |
| Illy Short Film | Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan | Skip Day |
| Carrosse d’OR | Martin Scorsese | —- |
v. L’Œil d’OR:
| Name of the Award | Winner | Film |
| L’0Eil d’Or | Stefano Savona | Samouni Road |
| Special Mention | 1.Michel Toesca 2. Mark Cousins | 1.Libre 2. The Eyes of Orson Welles |
vi. Queer Palm:
| Name of the Award | Winner | Film |
| Queer Palm Award | Lucas Dhont | Girl |
| Short Film Queer Palm | Carolina Markowicz | The Orphan |
vii. Palm Dog:
| Name of the Award | Winner | Film |
| Palm Dog Award | Canine Cast | Dogman |
| Grand Jury Prize | Diamantino | |
| Palm Dog Manitarian Award | Venessa Davies and her pug Patrick | ———- |
| Special Jury Prize | Security Dogs Lilou, Glock and Evan. | ———- |
viii. Prix François Chalais:
François Chalais Prize: Yomeddine by Abu Bakr Shawky
ix. Cannes Soundtrack Award:
Cannes Soundtrack Award: Roma Zver and German Osipov for Summer.
x. Trophée Chopard:
Chopard Trophy: Elizabeth Debicki and Joe Alwyn.
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