Park Chan-Wook Led Cannes Jury On Director, Actor & Actress Category Ties: “We Couldn’t Decide…”
The Cannes Film Festival jury, led by Park Chan-wook, faced challenges in making award decisions, resulting in ties for several categories. Best Director honors were shared between Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, and Paweł Pawlikowski, while Best Actor was awarded to the leads of Lukas Dhont’s Coward. The jury expressed their emotional connection to the films and the relationships depicted within them, which influenced their choices.
- ▪The Cannes jury awarded ties in the Best Director and Best Actor categories.
- ▪Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi shared the Best Director award with Paweł Pawlikowski.
- ▪The Best Actor award went to the leads of Lukas Dhont’s Coward.
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L to R Cannes 2026 Jury Members Chloé Zhao, Paul Laverty, Laura Wandel, Stellan Skarsgård, Demi Moore, President Park Chan-wook, Isaach de Bankolé and Diego Céspedes attend the closing ceremony of the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 23, 2026 in Cannes, France. Daniele Venturelli/WireImage What’s historically been great about the Cannes jury press conference at the end of the festival is that it provides a window into what this conclave was thinking and the choices made for award selections. However, few reporters got the chance to ask hard hitting questions, and the jury was steered by the conference moderator to describe trivial procedures and superlatives about their assembly, i.e.
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