Cannes 2024 winners: Anora wins Palme d’Or, Indian film All We Imagine As Light scripts history

The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has come to an end with a dazzling star-studded ceremony. After two weeks of watching exceptional cinema from around the globe, the jury comprising Barbie director Greta Gerwig, Lily Gladstone, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Eva Green, Ebru Ceylan, Juan Antonio Bayona, Nadine Labaki and Omar Sy, handed out the top prizes of the festivals to the most deserving stories premiered at this year's festival.

Out of the 21 films in the main competition, the top prize of the festival — Palme d'Or — went to Sean Baker‘s film Anora, a tragic story of a sex worker. 

While announcing the biggest prize of the event, Cannes jury president Gerwig said, “This particular film, this incredibly human and humane film that captured our hearts, made us laugh, let us hope beyond hope and then broke our hearts and never lost sight of the truth.”

The second most coveted prize of the film festival, the Grand Prix went to the Indian film All We Imagine As Light. During the Saturday closing ceremony, legendary filmmaker George Lucas, 80, was presented with an honorary Palme d’Or by his longtime collaborator and close pal Francis Ford Coppola.

As the curtains fall on this year's festival, let us look at the list of winners:

Palme d’Or: Anora

Grand Prix: All We Imagine as Light

Jury Prize: Emilia Pérez

Best Actress: Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz for "Emilia Perez"

Best Actor: Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness

Best Director: Miguel Gomes, Grand Tour

Best Screenplay: Coralie Fargeat for The Substance

Camera d’Or: Armand, Halfdan Ullman Tondel

Short Film Palme d’Or: The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, Nebojša Slijepčević

Golden Eye Documentary Prize: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found and The Brink of Dreams

Queer Palm: Three Kilometers to the End of the World