Cannes Film Festival: Briton Andrea Arnold will receive the Carrosse d’Or

British director Andrea Arnold will be awarded the prestigious Carrosse d'Or during the Filmmakers' Fortnight at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the Society of Film Directors (SRF) announced on Tuesday. “A great explorer of the margins, dynamiter of the codes of social film, the director and screenwriter has no equal when it comes to probing the power of bodies and minds,” underlined the SRF in a press release.

Revealed in 2004 with Wasp, a short film thanks to which she won an Oscar, Andrea Arnold confirmed two years later at the Cannes Film Festival with her first feature film, Red Road, which won the Jury Prize.

Two other Jury Prizes will follow at the Cannes high mass for this solid heiress of British social cinema, aged 63: in 2009 for Fish Tank, with Michael Fassbender, and in 2016 for American Honey, her latest film with Shia LaBeouf to the casting.

In American Honey, her first film shot outside Great Britain, Andrea Arnold described, through a road trip with bold visual contours, the desire for independence of a teenager embarked on a debauched trip. The public was also able to rediscover his unclassifiable style during the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with Cow, an intimate dive into the life of an English dairy cow, Luma.

The Carrosse d'Or is awarded to a director who demonstrates daring and innovation. It was awarded in 2023 to Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé.