The Jury Has Spoken, American Films Shut Out, But What Does It All Mean For Oscars? – Cannes Film Festival

With the exception of a shared Best Director win (with La Bola Negra) for Fatherland, as well as a Best Actress win for the two stars of All Of A Sudden, the jury of the 79th Cannes Film Festival decided that there was not much to reward in the fest’s first six days. Instead, the second career Palme d’Or for Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and his superb Fjord; the Grand Prix for Russian dissident Andrei Zviaguintsev’s Minotaur; the Jury Prize for Bulgaria’s The Dreamed Adventure (the only female director with a win in the main competition this year); plus the shared Best Actor win for Coward, that shared Best Director win for La Bola Negra; and Screenplay victory for A Man Of His Time, the results either say the Park Chan-Wook-led jury has a short memory over the course of this 11-day festival of festivals, or that Thierry Fremaux simply saved the best for last. Six of the winners in the seven major categories premiered in the last five days of this Cannes.

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