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Yorgos Lanthimos Wins Best Screenplay at 2017 Cannes Film Festival

Yorgos Lanthimos won the award for Best Screenplay on the final day of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, for his script for “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”, which he also directed.

The well-received film, which stars Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a successful surgeon and his wife who are thrown into somewhat surreal circumstances, made a splash at the festival. Kidman also won a Special 70th Anniversary Award at the festival this year.

This is Lanthimos’ third film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, after past entries like “Dogtooth”, which won an “Un Certain Regard” prize, and “The Lobster”, which won The Jury prize at Cannes.

English screenwriter Lynne Ramsay shared the Best Screenplay award for “You Were Never Really Here”. Ruben Östlund won the prestigious Palme d’Or for the Swedish film “The Square”, while the Jury Prize went to Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Loveless” and the Gran Prix was awarded to Robin Campillo for “120 Beats Per Minute”.

You can see a full list of Cannes award winners below:

2017 Main Competition winners: 

Palme d’Or: Ruben Östlund – The Square
Gran Prix: Robin Campillo – 120 Beats Per Minute
Jury Prize: Andrey Zvyagintsev – Loveless
Best Director: Sofia Coppola – The Beguiled
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
Best Actress: Diane Kruger – In the Fade
Best Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos – The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Camera d’Or:
 Léonor Sérraille – Jeune Femme
Short Film Palme d’Or: Qiu Yang – A Gentle Night
Special 70th Anniversary Award: Nicole Kidman

2017 Un Certain Regard winners: 

Un Certain Regard Prize: Mohammad Rasoulof – A Man of Integrity
Best Actress: 
Jasmine Trinca – Fortunata
Best Poetic Narrative:
 Mathieu Amalric – Barbara
Best Direction: 
Taylor Sheridan – Wind River
Jury Prize:
 Michel Franco – April’s Daughter

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