2022 Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony: Award winners and highlights
The 75th edition of the iconic film festival took place in the south of France this month and Tom Cruise picked up a special award for Top Gun: Maverick.
The Cannes International Film Festival concluded on Saturday 28 May after an 11-day run of some of the finest movies and most illustrious awards in the world of cinema.
Located on the glamourous French Riviera, the festival focuses on international cinema but also features haute culture fashion on its iconic red carpet. This year’s edition, the 75th in the festival’s history, paid tribute to Tom Cruise, with Top Gun: Maverick premiering at the event.
We take a look at the winners from this year’s ceremony, and the awards announced before.
Cannes Film Festival Winners 2022
Palme d’Or
Triangle Of Sadness, director: Ruben Ostlund
Grand Prize (Award shared)
Stars At Noon, director: Claire Denis
Close, director: Lukas Dhont
Best Director
Park Chan-wook, Decision To Leave
Special 75th Anniversary Prize
Tori And Lokita, directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Jury Prize (Award shared)
EO, director: Jerzy Skolimowski
The Eight Mountains, directors: Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch
Best Actor
Song Kang-ho, Broker
Best Screenplay
Tarik Saleh, Boy From Heaven
Best Actress
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Holy Spider
Camera d’Or
War Pony, directors: Riley Keough & Gina Gammell
Camera d’Or Special Mention
Plan 75, director: Chie Hayakawa
Short Film Palme d’Or
The Water Murmurs, director: Jianying Chen
Pre-festival award winners
Best Documentary
All That Breathes, director: Shaunak Sen
Special Jury Prize
Mariupolis 2, director: Mantas Kvedaravicius
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Broker, director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Highlights of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
Of all the worthy winners across the festival, few received the acclaim offered to Tom Cruise for his involvement in Top Gun: Maverick. The film itself received a five-minute standing applause after its first showing and Cruise himself was awarded a surprise Palme d’Or.
Before the film’s premiere, Cruise was the subject of a tribute reel showed in the theatre and French fighter jets flew overhead with blue, white and red smoke streaming.
“An incredible evening and an incredible time,” Cruise told those gathered, “Just to see everyone’s faces. It’s been 36 years since Top Gun and we had to hold this for two years because of the pandemic.”
Also in the headline from Cannes was Ruben Ostlund who won the Palme d-Or for Triangle of Sadness!, becoming only the ninth director to have won the Palme twice.
Directing brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, were also honoured with a special prize to mark the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
Song Kang-ho won the award for best actor for his appearance in Broker. Kang-ho first came to international attention for his Oscar-winning work in Parasite.