How to Watch the 2024 Cannes Awards Ceremony Live Stream

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival is finally coming to a close — but not without a big splash. Crossing the Croissette one last time, stars and filmmakers alike are about to find out who’s taking home this year’s prizes.

Guessing the Palme d’Or winner has become a beloved pastime for fans and critics alike, but the best part of any Cannes Awards ceremony are the surprises. This year’s jury, led by Greta Gerwig and including Lily Gladstone, Ebru Ceylan, Eva Green, Nadine Labaki, J.A. Bayona, Pierfrancesco Favino, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Omar Sy, has been pretty tight-lipped about its preferences, but there are certainly a few standouts amongst the 22 films in competition.

More from IndieWire

• The Best Movies of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, According to 55 Critics

• How Cannes Selections Achieved a 'Film Look' on Digital

“Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making passion project saw him return to Cannes after many years, but was met with a mixed response despite IndieWire’s own appreciation for the film. One of the real standouts of the fest was Sean Baker’s “Anora,” another examination of life as a sex worker from the filmmaker, which received a 10-minute standing ovation and high praise among critics. There’s also a lot of buzz around Mohammed Rasoulef’s film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” and specifically the filmmaker’s escape from his home country of Iran after being sentenced to eight years in prison there. Payal Kapadia winning for her film “All We Imagine as Light” would also be historic, marking the first time an Indian film had ever won the Palme d’Or.

Others vying for the top prize of the Palme d’Or include Andrea Arnold, Jacques Audiard, David Cronenberg, Paul Shrader, Karim Aïnouz, Ali Abassi, Kirill Serebrennikov, Yorgos Lanthimos, Coralie Forgeat, Miguel Gomes, Paolo Sorrentino, and Jia Zhangke, among others.

The award ceremony will begin Saturday, May 25, at 6:45 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST), which translates to 12:45 p.m. ET or 9:45 a.m. PT in the United States.

You can follow along via Brut’s YouTube channel (below). That one is in French. Or in English on their Facebook page.

Follow along (as best you can) below.

Or, of course, if you only care about the winners, bookmark IndieWire’s winners list here.

Best of IndieWire

• A History of Unsimulated Sex Scenes in 17 Cannes Films, from 'Mektoub' to 'Antichrist' to 'Caligula'

• The Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now

• Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 54 Films the Director Wants You to See

Sign up for Indiewire's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.