Brazilian star Wagner Moura has finally taken physical receipt of his Cannes Best Actor Award six weeks after he won the coveted prize for his performance in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Palme d’Or contender The Secret Agent.
French actress Juliette Binoche, who was Jury President at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in May, surprised Moura on stage at the Cinéma Paradiso Louvre Festival in Paris on Saturday.
Moura and Mendonça Filho were in attendance for a sold-out, open-air screening of thriller The Secret Agent, which also won Best Director in Cannes.
The actor was unable to attend the Cannes Awards ceremony in May because he had left the festival to return to the set of Louis Leterrier’s sci-fi horror 11817 in London.
”One of the things for me about this award, was the fact that you were the President of this jury. I can’t tell you how much I admire you and to receive this from your hands and all the amazing artists that were part of the jury,” Moura said to Binoche on receiving the award.
Binoche responded: “As the jury we just loved the film and loved you in the film so we definitely had to give you two prizes.
Moura dedicated his award to Brazilian Culture and all that champion and uplift it, and also sang a cappella excerpt from “Isto aqui o que é?, by João Gilberto.
Neon is gearing up to release The Secret Agent theatrically this fall in the U.S. where an awards campaign is planned.
The film is co-produced and distributed internationally by mk2, and produced by Emilie Lesclaux.
Aside from winning Best Director and Actor, The Secret Agent also clinched the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize for Best Film in the main competition and the Prix des Cinémas et Essai.
Organized by mk2, the Cinéma Paradiso Louvre Festival unfolds in a temporary open-air cinema in the Cour Carrée courtyard of the Louvre Palace, with the sand-covered setting taking inspiration from the Cannes Film Festival’s beach-set Cinéma de la Plage sidebar.
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