2024 Cannes Film Festival: Everything to Know | Academy Newsletter

Last year's Cannes Film Festival bowed three eventual Best Picture nominees in Anatomy of a Fall, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Zone of Interest. Anatomy of a Fall, which won Cannes' prestigious Palme d'Or, went on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; The Zone of Interest, which took home the Grand Prix, won Best International Feature Film and Best Sound. (The likes of Elemental, May December, and Perfect Days also premiered on La Croisette before receiving nominations at the 96th Oscars.)The Official Selection for this year's 77th edition features new works from many renowned filmmakers, including Andrea Arnold, Francis Ford Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos, George Miller, and more. For Coppola, the Cannes premiere of Megalopolis marks his return to the festival exactly 50 years after the legendary filmmaker won the Palme d'Or with 1974's The Conversation. Apocalypse Now, which was released five years later, also won the Palme d'Or.Below, A.frame has answers to all of your qu...