2025 Cannes Film Festival: See All The Winners

After a power outage threatened to delay Saturday’s closing ceremonies of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the event at the Grand Théâtre Lumière went off without a hitch.

The Competition jury, which was led this year by French actor Juliette Binoche, also included American actors Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, Italian actor Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, and directors Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sang-soo, Payal Kapadia and Carlos Reygadas. It was they who decided the Festival’s best and the brightest, in a year when a number of films generated buzz (and opened the pocketbooks of distributors).

Honorees included Brazilian actor Wagner Moura, who wasn’t at the ceremony—but was still named best actor for his role in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller The Secret Agent. In a Cannes rarity, it also took home a second award for best director.

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho accepts the Best Actor Prize on behalf of Brazilian actor Wagner Moura for the film “O Agente Secreto” (The Secret Agent) during the Closing Ceremony at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 24, 2025.

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Other winners included Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose It Was Just an Accident won the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, just days after distribution company Neon picked up the American rights for the film.

Read on for a full list of all the winners at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and click over to our live blog for Vanity Fair’s on-the-ground coverage from the scene.

Palme d’OrJafar Panahi — It Was Just an Accident

Grand PrixJoachim Trier — Sentimental Value

Jury PrizeTie: Mascha Schilinski — Sound of Falling; Oliver Laxe — Sirat

Best DirectorKleber Mendonça Filho — The Secret Agent

Best ScreenplayJean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne — Young Mothers

Best ActressNadia Melliti —The Little Sister

Best ActorWagner Moura — The Secret Agent

Special PrizeBi Gan — Resurrection

Camera d’Or for Best First FilmHassan Hadi — The President’s Cake

Palme d’Or for Best Short FilmTawfeek Barhom — I’m Glad You’re Dead Now

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