Gareth Cattermole / Staff
Bong Joon-ho accepting the Palme d'Or as French legend Catherine Deneuve looks on
Antonio Banderas nabbed the best actor award for his role as a past-his-prime director in Pedro Almodóvar's 'Pain & Glory,' while Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' came up empty-handed.
A star-studded Cannes Film Festival came to a close Saturday night with a bang as Bong Joon-ho's Parasite took home the Palme d'Or, while Mati Diop's Atlantics landed the runner-up Grand Prix award.
The Parasite win denied Quentin Tarantino his second top Cannes prize of his career (the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood helmer won the Palme d’Or 25 years ago for his groundbreaking Pulp Fiction). Instead, the widely praised Once Upon a Time came up empty handed at the ceremony.
Joon-ho's dark comedy, which premiered the same night as Once Upon a Time, has drawn raves, including at the Cannes closing ceremony, where the audience stood up and screamed when it was named the Palme d'Or winner. The film revolves around a man and his unemployed family as they take a peculiar interest in a wealthy family, which leads all of them to become entangled in an unexpected incident. Jury president Alejandro González Iñárritu said the Palme d'Or decision was "unanimous."
Antonio Banderas won the best actor award for his starring role in Pain & Glory. In his eighth teaming with director Pedro Almodóvar, Banderas plays a Spanish film director past his professional peak and in the middle of a creative crisis, battling addiction among other physical .
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