Cannes Film Festival: Winners for Best Actor and Best Actress

Japan’s Koji Yakusu, one of the country’s most popular actors, won Best Actor for his performance in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days at the 76th Cannes Film Festival this evening.

“I would like to give special thanks to Wim Wenders and co-writer. You have created an amazing character,” he said enthusiastically as he accepted his award.

Best Actor goes to Koji YAKUSHO in PERFECT DAYS directed by Wim WENDERS
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Best Actor award goes to Koji YAKUSHO in PERFECT DAYS by Wim WENDERS # It was 2023 #Palmares # Trophies #best actor pic.twitter.com/sfxONo71vz

– Cannes Festival (Festival_Cannes) May 27, 2023

In this film by the director of the film Paris, Texas (Phoenix House, 1984), Koji Yakusu plays Hirayama, a Tokyo public toilet employee, a silent, lonely man who slowly opens up to others.

Turkala Merve Duzdar won the Best Actress Award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival this evening for her performance in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dry Grass.

said the actress, who plays a woman who falls in love with a teacher in a remote province in a remote region, Turkey.

Grand Prize awarded to Region of Interest by Jonathan Glazer
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The Jury Prize goes to “Area of ​​Interest” by Jonathan Glazer # It was 2023 #Palmares # Trophies #grandprix pic.twitter.com/5C5ZO9hMBC

– Cannes Festival (Festival_Cannes) May 27, 2023

Jonathan Glazer also took home the Grand Prix for his movie, The Zone of Interest.

The Grand Prix is ​​awarded to the second best film at the festival.

France’s Justine Trier won the Palme d’Or at Anatomy of a Fall, becoming the third female director to win the award in its history.

The 44-year-old director succeeds Jane Campion (The Piano Lesson, 1993) and Julia DuCorneau (Titan, 2021), underlining the slow step towards equality in a film industry historically dominated by men.

See photos from the ceremony

Source: APE BEE