Cannes Jury President Park Chan-wook Teases: ‘I Didn’t Want to Award the Palme d’Or to Any of the Films’

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· May 24, 2026 at 12:04 AM

May 23, 2026 5:04pm PT Cannes Jury President Park Chan-wook Teases: ‘I Didn’t Want to Award the Palme d’Or to Any of the Films’

By William Earl, Elsa Keslassy

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 23: (L-R) Jury Member Ruth Negga, Jury President Park Chan-wook, Jury Member Demi Moore and Jury Member Isaach de Bankolé attend the closing ceremony of the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 23, 2026 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Aurore Marechal/Getty Images)

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Cannes’ jury president, Park Chan-wook — long a Cannes favorite, never a Palme winner — managed to roast himself and plug his latest movie at the closing press conference of the 79th Cannes Film Festival.

Park quipped that he struggled with the decision of which film should take this year’s top award.

“To be completely honest, I didn’t want to award the Palme d’Or to any of the films because it’s an award that I myself have never gotten. But I had no other choice,” Park Chan-wook deadpanned.

Cannes Jury President Park Chan-wook Teases: ‘I Didn’t Want to Award the Palme d’Or to Any of the Films’

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