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Fantastic Five! Neon Makes It Five Palme d’Or Winners In A Row As ‘Anora’ Scoops Cannes Top Prize


Sean Baker's Anora stormed to the top prize tonight out on the Riviera, making it a remarkable five Palme d'Or wins in a row for US distributor Neon.

It was Sean Baker’s Anora that stormed to the top prize on the Riviera, making it a remarkable five Palme d’Or wins in a row for Tom Quinn’s outfit Neon. Better Things and Scream actress Mikey Madison plays the eponymous Anora alongside Yuriy Borisov, who previously appeared in Cannes pics Petrov’s Flu and Compartment No.6 both in 2021. Remarkably, before it screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival a couple of well-placed industry we spoke to were not high on Anora ‘s chances of winning the Palme d’Or, once again proving the timeless axiom: “Nobody knows anything”.

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