Neon Wins Seventh Palme d’Or In A Row For ‘Fjord’

U.S. theatrical distributor Neon continued to make historical past at Cannes tonight with its seventh straight Palme d’Or win for Christian Mungiu’s Fjord.

Fjord marks Mungiu’s English-language debut. In it, the co-stars play a combined Romanian and Norwegian couple who transfer to the fjord village the place the spouse was born with their kids. Their deliberate new life doesn’t go to plan once they come up in opposition to a pair with a really totally different outlook on life. The pic obtained a 12-minute standing ovation at its world premiere.

Mungiu is the tenth director to win two Palme D’Ors.

The movie is Mungiu’s first movie in three years after the 2022 drama R.M.N. Fjord can also be his second Palme d’Or win following 4 Months, 3 Weeks and a pair of Days in 2007. He additionally gained Finest Screenplay right here for Past The Hills in 2012, and Finest Director for Commencement in 2016.

Neon, started profitable Palme d’Ors in 2019 for Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite which went on to win 4 Oscars together with Finest Image. This was adopted by Titane in 2021, then 2022’s Triangle of Unhappiness (3x Oscar nominee), Justine Triet’s 2023 title Anatomy of a Fall (which gained one Oscar), 2024’s Anora (a 5x Oscar winner together with Finest Image) and final 12 months’s Jafar Panahi film It Was Simply an Accident.

Neon’s Grand Jury Prize winner at Cannes final 12 months, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth rallied on the Oscar noms with 9 this 12 months, together with Finest Image. The Elle Fanning, Reinsve, and Stellan Skarsgård film took residence the Oscar for Finest Worldwide Movie.

Neon has U.S., Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand rights to Fjord.

Now, onward, to the Oscars.