The Square wins the Palme D’Or and Nicole Kidman gets a special award at Cannes
Early today, Pedro Almodóvar and his Cannes jury announced the winners at the film festival’s annual awards ceremony, but since it wouldn’t be the Cannes awards without some surprises, they threw in a couple of bonus awards just for fun. Specifically, Nicole Kidman was awarded a special prize simply for ubiquity, with her appearing in four projects: The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, The Beguiled, the second season of Top Of The Lake, and the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s How To Talk To Girls At Parties. The other bonus came in the screenplay category, with the jury giving the award to both The Killing Of A Sacred Deer and You Were Never Really Here in a rare tie.