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CNN  —  There was a Hollywood ending on the French Riviera on Saturday evening as Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was awarded the Palme d’Or, top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s the first time Panahi has won the festival’s highest honor, a sensational outcome after years of personal and professional adversity. The dissident director has endured multiple run-ins with the Iranian government, including imprisonment, most recently from 2022 to 2023.

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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington attend the "Highest 2 Lowest" red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2025 in Cannes, France. Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic/Getty Images Cannes, France CNN  —  Spike Lee and Denzel Washington have walked a long road together.

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Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in “Eddington,” releasing on July 18, 2025. A24 Cannes, France CNN  —  Ari Aster is currently living in a state of blissful ignorance. It won’t last long. The director of “Midsommar” and “Beau Is Afraid,” who has brought his politically volatile work “Eddington” to the Cannes Film Festival, admits he hasn’t seen any of the online reactions to his movie.

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By Thomas Page, CNN Cannes, France (CNN) — Ari Aster is currently living in a state of blissful ignorance. It won’t last long. The director of “Midsommar” and “Beau Is Afraid,” who has brought his politically volatile work “Eddington” to the Cannes Film Festival, admits he hasn’t seen any of the online reactions to his movie. “I’ve been very deliberately avoiding the discourse about the film,” he told CNN during a packed and often impassioned press conference at the festival on Saturday.

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Cannes, France (CNN) — Tom Cruise was last at Cannes in 2022, when the film festival gave him an honorary Palme d’Or and, in return, got one of the last bona fide Hollywood stars to grace their red carpet as he launched “Top Gun: Maverick.”Fighter jets swooped overhead, and Cruise, who hadn’t been to the festival in 30 years at that point, flashed that megawatt smile. Before you knew it, “Maverick” soared past one billion dollars at the box office.