Other major awards were won by Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” and the actors Jesse Plemons, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón.
'Anora,' a widely admired knockabout comedy about a New York strip-club dancer and her impulsive affair with a Russian oligarch's wealthy son , has won the Palme d'Or, the most prestigious award granted by the Cannes Film Festival.
She did so, in collaboration with her jury, a group that included the actors Lily Gladstone and Eva Green and directors Hirokazu Kore-eda and Spain's Juan Antonio Bayona. The Grand Prix, Cannes' runner-up award, went to Payal Kapadia's “All We Imagine as Light,” India's first film to compete in three decades.
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