Sebastian Stan Movie Wins Cannes Top Prize, Full Winners’ List Revealed

Cristian Mungiu’s movie, starring Sebastian Stan, has clinched the Palme d’Or at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The win is a triumphant return for the Romanian director, who now joins an elite club of two-time winners.

The drama, which also features Renate Reinsve alongside Stan, follows a mixed Romanian-Norwegian couple who relocate their family to the wife’s birthplace, a remote fjord village. Their pursuit of a new start unravels when they collide with a local couple holding starkly opposing values. The prize cements Mungiu as only the 10th filmmaker in history to claim the festival’s top honor twice, having previously won for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

Cannes 2026 full winners’ list unveiled

Park Chan-Wook presided over the Cannes 2026 jury alongside Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård, Diego Céspedes, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Isaach De Bankolé, and Paul Laverty.

Main Competition

• Palme d’Or — Fjord, Cristian Mungiu
• Grand Prize — Minotaur, Andreï Zviaguintsev
• Best Director (Tied) — Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi (La Bola Negra) and Paweł Pawlikowski (Fatherland)
• Best Actress — Virginie Efira & Tao Okamoto, All of a Sudden
• Best Actor — Emmanuel Macchia & Valentin Campagne, Coward
• Best Screenplay — Emmanuel Marre, A Man of His Time
• Jury Prize — The Dreamed Adventure, Valeska Grisebach
• Camera d’Or — Ben’Imana, Marie-Clémentine DUSABEJAMBO

Short Films

• Short Film Palme d’Or — For the Opponents, Federico Luis

Un Certain Regard

• Un Certain Regard Prize — Everytime, Sandra Wollner
• Jury Prize — Elephants in the Fog, Abinash Bikram Shah
• Special Jury Prize — Iron Boy, Louis Clichy
• Best Actor — Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset, Congo Boy
• Best Actresses — Marina de Tavira, Daniela Marín Navarro & Mariangel Villegas, Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno

The Cinef (Student Films)

• First Prize — Laser-Cat, Lucas Acher (NYU, USA)
• Second Prize — Silent Voices, Nadine Misong Jin (Columbia University, USA)
• Joint Third Prize — Never Enough, Julius Lagoutte Larsen (La Fémis, France) and Growing Stones, Flying Papers, Roozbeh Gezerseh & Soraya Shamsi (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany)

(Source: Cannes Film Festival)

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