US director Sean Baker's Anora wins Palme d'Or at 2024 Cannes Film Festival

The film is directed by US director Sean Baker.Anora, a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch's son, has won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.

Jury president Greta Gerwig, the director behind the smash hit Barbie, called Anora an "incredibly human and humane film that captured our hearts" when announcing the award that was handed out by George Lucas, of Star Wars fame. The Grand Prix, which is the second-highest prize after the Palme d'Or, was awarded to All We Imagine as Light, marking the first time an Indian director had won the prize.

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who was in Cannes about two weeks after announcing he had gone into exile, was given a special award for The Seed of the Sacred Fig, about an Iranian court official who grows increasingly controlling and paranoid as protests begin to swell in 2022.Emilia Pérez, a musical about a Mexican cartel boss who transitions from male to female, was doubly honoured.

Jesse Plemons was named best actor for playing three different parts — a struggling police officer, a cult member and a man whose every action is controlled by his boss — in director Yorgos Lanthimos' film Kinds of Kindness.

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