The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival (2022) took place from 17 to 28 May 2022.
- Palme d’Or: Triangle of Sadness has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on May 28, the second time Swedish director Ruben Ostlund has won the prize.
- Triangle of Sadness puts Ostlund among a select group of two-time winners of the top prize at Cannes.
- He first scooped the Palme in 2017 for The Square.
- Best actress award: The best actress award that went to Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi, forced to flee her country 16 years ago following a smear campaign over her love life.
- She played a journalist in Holy Spider, tracking a man who murders prostitutes in the holy city of Mashhad.
- Best Director: Park Chan-wook was anointed Best Director for Decision To Leave.
- Best Actor prize: Japanese veteran Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first Korean-language movie, Broker, took the Best Actor prize for Parasite‘s Song Kang-ho.
- Grand Prix: The runner-up Grand Prix was split between 32-year-old Belgian Lukas Dhont and French veteran Claire Denis.
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