The short version circulating online: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3
That sounds... counterintuitive. Especially given that one of the two deadlock candidates now won the 'silver lion' (i.e. second place I suppose), and the other one won the 'special jury prize'...
That sounds... counterintuitive. Especially given that one of the two deadlock candidates now won the 'silver lion' (i.e. second place I suppose), and the other one won the 'special jury prize' (whatever that is). Shouldn't the scenario you cited give rise to a second place deadlock as well?
Silver is the Directing prize and Jury Prize was like a consolation thing they added fifteen years ago. I’m not entirely sure how this stuff works, especially since the jury for every festival is...
Silver is the Directing prize and Jury Prize was like a consolation thing they added fifteen years ago.
I’m not entirely sure how this stuff works, especially since the jury for every festival is different every year and they operate differently. And not a lot of their decisions don’t make sense. For example, it’s been widely rumored that in Cannes 2015 most of the Jury wanted to award Carol the Palme D’Or, but they had a lone juror (Xavier Dolan) prevent that from happening. Carol ended up only winning the Actress award. Similar thing in Cannes 2021 where Spike Lee didn’t want to give Drive My Car the Palme so they gave it the Screenplay prize as consolation.
None of these are official. It’s just rumors, but these are the narratives that form.
From Ruimy:
That sounds... counterintuitive. Especially given that one of the two deadlock candidates now won the 'silver lion' (i.e. second place I suppose), and the other one won the 'special jury prize' (whatever that is). Shouldn't the scenario you cited give rise to a second place deadlock as well?
Silver is the Directing prize and Jury Prize was like a consolation thing they added fifteen years ago.
I’m not entirely sure how this stuff works, especially since the jury for every festival is different every year and they operate differently. And not a lot of their decisions don’t make sense. For example, it’s been widely rumored that in Cannes 2015 most of the Jury wanted to award Carol the Palme D’Or, but they had a lone juror (Xavier Dolan) prevent that from happening. Carol ended up only winning the Actress award. Similar thing in Cannes 2021 where Spike Lee didn’t want to give Drive My Car the Palme so they gave it the Screenplay prize as consolation.
None of these are official. It’s just rumors, but these are the narratives that form.