In our each year, it’s common to have the critics IndieWire’s polled disagree with the awards given by the festival jury itself. That is not the case for Cannes 2024. The best movies of the festival, picked by 55 critics, representing five continents, were topped by in our poll, which, of course also .
Last year, Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” topped our poll, differing from the Palme d’Or result, which went to Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall.” It must be said that voter enthusiasm in our poll for “The Zone of Interest” was even that much stronger: It received nearly half of all votes for best film. “Anora,” which stars Mikey Madison, received about a quarter of the overall votes for best film this time (13 votes out of the 55 critics) with Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” falling just two votes short from tying it. Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” and Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” each garnered nine votes, tying them for third place.
Miguel Gomes’ “Grand Tour” and Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” rounded out the top group for Best Film and earned additional honors elsewhere.
Intriguingly, “The Substance” did not even rank in our Best Screenplay category even though it won Best Screenplay from the festival jury in the Cannes closing ceremony awards. Instead, Sean Baker topped both Best Screenplay and Best Director in our poll, as well as Best Film, with Fargeat coming in second for Best Director. Her gruesome imagining of the politics of fame, beauty, and youth was hailed for its style and unforgettable brio.
"La semilla del higo sagrado" de Rasoulof también fue en segundo lugar en la categoría de mejor guión, aunque está ausente del mejor reconocimiento de director. Este es un fenómeno intrigante que hemos visto en esta encuesta a lo largo de los años: los críticos que votan son muy capaces de distinguir un guión de las otras cualidades formales de una película. Por lo tanto, el guión de Gabriel Sherman para "The Apprentice" aparece en la mejor lista de guiones aquí, mientras que la película en sí no aparece en otras categorías.
The unusually high number of ties this time around speaks to a relative lack of consensus in the below categories, at least once you look past “Anora” and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.”
Also, last year, for the first time, IndieWire asked the critics to choose Best First Film at Cannes. In 2023 they picked Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s “Banel and Adama” and Molly Manning Walker’s “How to Have Sex.” This time around it was overwhelming acclamation for Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s “Armand,” starring Renate Reinsve.
Vea los resultados completos a continuación.
Best Film
- “Anora,” Sean Baker
- “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammad Rasoulof
(tie) 3. “All We Imagine as Light,” Payal Kapadia
(tie) 3. “Emilia Perez,” Jacques Audiard
(tie) 5. “Grand Tour,” Miguel Gomes
(empate) 5. "La sustancia", Coralie Fargeat
Mejor guión
- “Anora,” Sean Baker
- “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammad Rasoulof
(tie) 3. “All We Imagine as Light,” Payal Kapadia
(tie) 3. “The Apprentice,” Gabriel Sherman
(tie) 3. “Grand Tour,” Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
(tie) 3. “Kinds of Kindness,” Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Best Director
- “Anora,” Sean Baker
- “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat
(tie) 3. “Emilia Perez,” Jacques Audiard
(tie) 3. “Grand Tour,” Miguel Gomes
Best First Film
"Armand", Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
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Siddhant Adlakha
Nicholas Barber
Diego Batlle
Alex Billington
N.T. Binh
Amir Bogen
Tara Brady
Matt Brennan
Xan Brooks
Stephanie Bunbury
Andreas Busche
David Canfield
Donald Clarke
Andrea D’Addio
Robert Daniels
Phil De Semlyen
Peter Debruge
Karl Delossantos
David Ehrlich
Thomas Flew
Rodrigo Fonseca
Fernando Ganzo
Tim Grierson
Juez Guerand
Shubhra Gupta
Pierre Simon Gutman
Andy Hazel
Luke Hicks
Peter Howell
Wendy Ide
Mansour Jahani
Cassie Jo
Namrata Joshi
Ryan Lattanzio
Richard Lawson
Diego lerer
Anke lewke
Hassouna Mansouri
Ritesh Mehta
Alejandra Musi Arcelus
Matthew Neglia
Rory O’Connor
Hannah Pilarczyk
Vadim Rizov
E. Nina Rothe
Joshua Rothkopf
Jaewon lanzado
Cate
Hannah Strong
Anne Thompson
Pablo Villaca
Sonya Vseliubska
Wen Tien-Hsiang
Jada Yuan
Esther Zuckerman