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Miguel Gomes Wins Best Director Award For Grand Tour At Cannes Film Festival 2024; DETAILS
At the 2024 Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony today, President Greta Gerwig has announced Miguel Gomes as the Best Director for his period drama film Grand Tour.
The closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival took place at the Grand Theatre Lumiere on May 25, 2024. The event saw Portuguese director Miguel Gomes emerging as one of the biggest winners of the night as he took home the award of Best Director for Grand Tour.
The Cannes Film Festival 2024 did its best in captivating the audience's attention with exciting film premieres, offering a glimpse of stars walking the iconic red carpet in their best fashion attires, and many other memorable moments.
Director Greta Gerwig, the president of the main competition jury, were joined by the other jury members at the closing ceremony today, where they announced the winner for Best Director alongside the highly anticipated winners of the prestigious Palme d'Or, among other honors.
Le Prix de la Mise en scène est remis à MIGUEL GOMES pour GRAND TOUR.
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 25, 2024
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Miguel Gomes wins Best Director Award for Grand Tour at Cannes 2024
Director Greta Gerwig, president of the main competition jury at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, finally revealed the winner of the Best Director award along with the other jury members, which included J.A. Bayona, Lily Gladstone, Eva Green, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nadine Labaki, Ebru Ceylan, Pierfrancesco Favino, and Omar Sy.
Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes won the Best Director award for his period drama Grand Tour. The film had its world premiered on May 22, 2024 at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie has an A-list star ensemble cast featuring Gonçalo Waddington, Lang Khê Tran, Cláudio da Silva, João Pedro Vaz, and João Pedro Bénard, among others.
Who is Miguel Gomes?
Miguel Gomes is a Portuguese filmmaker, known for movies like The Face You Deserve (2004), Our Beloved Month of August (2008) and Tabu (2012). He studied cinema at Lisbon Theatre and Film School and trained at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Superior School of Theatre and Film Lisbon).
Gomes began his career working as a film critic and author of theoretical writings on cinema. His film Tabu won the Alfred Bauer Prize for Artistic Innovation and the FIPRESCI Jury Prize at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival. It also bagged the Grand Prix at Film Fest Gent.
Prior to the screening of this year's Grand Tour, Gomes' 2015 film Arabian Nights was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section at Cannes Film Festival 2015.
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