The COWARD boys can’t believe it

The Cannes prize for Best Actor goes to Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne from COWARD

Isabelle Huppert, who’s dressed as a chic sequined pilgrim, is here to pick up Barbra Streisand’s honorary Palme d’Or

The Camera d’Or for best first film goes to BEN’IMANA

And Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan with their FJORD director Cristian Mungiu

Your boy Swann Arlaud just arrived

And Lukas Dhont with his COWARD leading men

And here’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi with his ALL OF A SUDDEN leading ladies

Bonsoir from the Cannes closing ceremony, where the Javis and Penelope Cruz have just arrived on the red carpet. Follow along…

The Cannes prize for Best Screenplay goes to A MAN OF HIS TIME

The Cannes prize for Best Actress is another two-fer: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto for ALL OF A SUDDEN

Virginie Efira is overcome as she collects their Best Actress prize

Hamaguchi chilling

Gael can’t let Swann Arlaud be the only silver twink in the room

The Cannes Jury Prize (3rd place) goes to THE DREAMED ADVENTURE

The Cannes prize for Best Director is a tie! The Javis for THE BLACK BALL and Paweł Pawlikowski for FATHERLAND

Here’s some of the Javis’ speech

Paweł Pawlikowski is not happy that due to the tie, he had to wait in the wings before talking. “This is a piece of disastrous mise en scene,” he says. “All the more reason to have real directors up here.”

We are about to see if the Neon streak extends or snaps…

The Cannes Grand Prix (2nd place) goes to MINOTAUR

The Neon streak is safe. FJORD is about to win the Palme

And now it’s official:: The Palme D’Or goes to FJORD, extending Neon’s incredible streak to seven Palmes in a row

“Awards arw contextual,” says FJORD director Cristian Mungiu, noting that we should wait 10 to 20 years to see which of these movies have really withstood the test of time

This also makes Cristian Mungiu the 10th director to win two Palmes