The festivities in the French Riviera kicked off with The Dead Don't Die, a characteristically playful and low-key zombie film from Jim Jarmusch, assisted here by a number of his old pals — Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, Iggy Pop, and Tilda Swinton amongst them. And Quentin Tarantino gave us a showstopper with his extraordinary late-60s LA exploitation thriller Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. Our chief critic’s considered verdict on new movies from big-hitters Almodóvar, Tarantino, Malick and Loach, as well as the buzz around homegrown talent Céline Sciamma, Fri 24 May 2019 14.12 BST Late additions to SFF are sure to offer more opportunities to see the films of Cannes 2019, as will the Melbourne International Film Festival (August 1-18) — although the line-up has not yet been announced. Last modified on Thu 20 Jun 2019 15.38 BST. Best Actor Award Prix d'interprétation masculine Location Cannes Country France Presented by Festival International du Film de Cannes First awarded 1946 (awarded to Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend) The Cannes Best Actor Award (French: Prix d'interprétation masculine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival… Portrait of a Lady on Fire was also thought to be a good pick for the Palme, deemed by critics to be one of the strongest films in competition. Cannes Film Festival 2019 Awards: ‘Parasite’ Wins Palme d’Or Antonio Banderas wins Best Actor award for “Pain and Glory,” while Best Actress prize goes to Emily Beecham for “Little Joe” © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. It's an exciting choice, being the debut feature from the French-Senegalese director and actress, who is also the first black woman to have a film in competition at Cannes. Surprise, and some dismay, greeted the bestowal of the best director prize upon the Dardenne brothers. (Supplied: Paramount Pictures Australia). What a wonderful Cannes debut for Diop. Now she's seeing it in Sydney during COVID-19, Vixens down Lightning to reach Super Netball finals on winning note. read more about this. It's a wrap on the most feted event in the cinematic calendar year, the Cannes Film Festival. It seems to have no point other than to ogle semi-naked and naked women. Bong Joon-ho of South Korea won the Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, on Saturday for his seventh feature film, "Parasite." ABC Arts. Les Miserables by Ladj Ly and Bacurau by Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juliano Dornelles, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, The Young Ahmed, Celine Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Distance Between Us And The Sky by Vasilis Kekatos, Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Celine Sciamma. Were the dashing 58-year-old actor to be nominated, it would be his first. It was first awarded in 1946. No awards were given to actors in 1947 and 1956. FR; ES; ZH ... 2019. (Supplied: Cannes Film Festival). Cannes 2019: Peter Bradshaw's picks – and Palme d'Or predictions Cannes 2019 This ... Best actress: Debbie Honeywood for Sorry We Missed You ‘Imaginary’ Cannes awards – … But the film that everyone has been talking about the most, and which I am tipping for the Palme d’Or – of which, more in a moment – is Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, an impossibly gorgeous, suspenseful and sexy-cerebral movie about an 18th-century French noblewoman (Adèle Haenel) who is painted in secret by an artist (Noémie Merlant) employed by her mother. Overall, there was a surprising number of genre films across the festival's multiple programming streams (even if the kind of European arthouse drama more traditionally associated with Cannes was still dominant). The festival also showcased a host of budding auteurs, whose names do not yet inspire the kind of reverence given to their forebears: Mati Diop; Ladj Ly; Kantemir Balagov. The Palme d’Or went to “Parasite” by Bong Joon-Ho. Separate addresses with a comma Please email me a copy . I wish to receive the Festival de Cannes newsletter * * * Required fields. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), Cannes's Palme d'Or goes to a Korean film for the first time in its 72-year history, Satanic panic doco by Melbourne filmmaker screens at Cannes Film Festival, Tarantino snaps at reporter over question about Margot Robbie's role in new film, Melbourne's curfew scrapped, third step brought forward as coronavirus restrictions eased, Melbourne's restrictions roadmap has changed a bit. The Cannes Festival (/ k æ n /; French: Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.