Cannes Film Festival 2023 Highlights

• Venue: Cannes, France
• Opening Film: "The Second Woman" - Quentin Dupieux
• Jury President: Greta Gerwig
• Best Film: "Anora" - Sean Baker
• Indian Films: 9 films screened in various sections

Other Awards:

• Grand Prix: "Brotherhood" - Tore Fråndberg
• Jury Prize: "Poets" - Lee Joon-jong
• Best Actor: Song Kang-ho - "The Broker"
• Best Actress: Léa Seydoux - "One Fine Morning"
• Best Director: Lukas Dhont - "Close"

Indian Awards at Cannes:

• Payal Kapadia: 'All We Imagine as Light'
• Chidananda S. Naik: 'Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know'
• Anasuiya Sengupta: 'The Shameless'

Padma Awards 2024

• Padma Vibhushan: 2 awardees
• Padma Bhushan: 9 awardees
• Padma Shri: 56 awardees

Special Awards:

• Chiranjeevi: Padma Vibhushan for contribution in arts (Telangana)
• First Elephant Mountain Kanya Parvati: Padma Shri (Telangana sculptor)
• Ragriti Rekha Chakrama: Padma Shri (Tripura weaver)
• Charlotte Shapan: Padma Shri (French yoga instructor, Uttar Pradesh)

Srinivas R. Kulkarni Receives the 2024 Shaw Prize

• Recipient: Srinivas R. Kulkarni (Indian-American scientist)
• Prize: 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
• Shaw Prize: Established by Hong Kong philanthropist Run Run Shaw, with a monetary award of $1.2 million

Goldman Environmental Prize

Recipient: Alok Shukla, Indian forest activist

• Prize: Goldman Environmental Prize
• Significance: Known as the "Green Nobel", awarded to environmental defenders working at the grassroots level, often at personal risk
• Established: 1990, on Earth Day