{"id":499694,"date":"2026-05-23T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/499694\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:05:11","slug":"cannes-2026-jury-park-chan-wook-chloe-zhao-on-award-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/499694\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes 2026 Jury: Park Chan-Wook, Chloe Zhao On Award Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhat\u2019s historically been great about the Cannes<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, 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. how Demi Moore likes her first name pronounced (\u201cDe-meee\u201d) and making fast decisions on the award selections this morning (\u201cIt wasn\u2019t to get our phones back,\u201d said Jury President Park Chan-wook<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, a smart query broke through at the end, questioning the Director Park-led jury on why they handed out a couple of category ties, specifically in Best Director with Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for the new Netflix owned\u00a0La Bola Negra and Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski for Mubi\u2019s\u00a0Fatherland; as well as Best Actor which was bestowed to the leads of Lukas Dhont\u2019s Coward, Emmanuel Macchia, Valentin Campagneshare. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition, there was a tie in Best Actress with Virginie Efira and Tao Okamo for\u00a0All Of A Sudden.<\/p>\n

\n\tWas it hard to make decisions?<\/p>\n

\n\tAnswered Director Park, \u201cIf you see the films that was awarded the actors award, I\u2019m certain you\u2019d have to agree with our choices.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Decision to Leave Cannes winning director added, \u201cAs far as the director award, to emphasize this again, both filmmakers did an amazing job with their work and we couldn\u2019t decide whether one was better than the other.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were very moved at a time where loneliness, the relationship between human beings are becoming somehow further and further away. The tenderness we felt in the relationships in these films, and so it was very much \u2014 we fell in love, not in just with the actors, but the relationships of love and tenderness between them, we fell in love with awarding both of them,\u201d said 2x Oscar winner and Jury Member Chloe Zhao<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t want to give the Palme D\u2019Or to any of the films because it\u2019s an award that I\u2019ve never gotten.\u201d Director Park, ever the joker, exclaimed earlier in the conference, \u201cBut I had no other choice.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s historically been great about the Cannes jury press conference at the end of the festival is that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[10404,190863,11519,434,15770,18,117,19,17,69768],"class_list":["post-499694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-2026","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-celebrities","tag-chloe-zhao","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-park-chan-wook"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116626399474035878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}