Grand Prix Cannes — Best AI Cinema Work
The top honour for a work that expands cinematic language with emotional force, direction, image, rhythm and technical command.
Prix
A serious awards architecture for Cannes: direction, story, image, rhythm, sound, performance, ethics, audience impact and future formats.
Grands prix
Grands prix
Best Human + AI Direction
For the clearest directorial point of view across human decisions, AI workflows, performance, camera language and final screen rhythm.
Best Full AI Film
For a complete AI-led or AI-generated work judged as cinema first: coherent, authored, precise and memorable.
Best AI Short Film
For a short-form work with discipline, feeling, visual authority and a strong cinematic afterimage.
Best Future Format
For vertical, immersive, interactive, trailer, fashion-film, XR, micro-short or hybrid work that points toward a new screen grammar.
Audience Signal Award
For the selection that creates the strongest public response and proves that new tools can still move people.
Prix de savoir-faire
Prix de savoir-faire
Best AI Cinematography
For light, framing, lens language, image continuity, atmosphere and control of the synthetic camera.
Best Editing / Rhythm
For structure, pace, breathing room, transitions and the invisible music of cinematic assembly.
Best Sound & Voice Design
For voice direction, sound texture, audio atmosphere, sonic continuity and immersive world feeling.
Best Worldbuilding
For the richest visual environment, mythology, design logic and coherent cinematic universe.
Best Character / Performance Design
For character presence, expression, casting intelligence, gesture, voice and emotional readability.
Best Screenplay or Story Architecture
For premise, dramatic structure, dialogue, character movement, theme and audience momentum.
Prix prestige / éthique
Prix prestige / éthique
Responsible AI Cinema Award
For transparent, rights-aware, consent-conscious and human-centred use of AI in the creation process.
Cannes Creative Technology Award
For a work that carries the spirit of Cannes as a serious creative-technology city into the future of cinema.
Emerging Creator Award
For a new filmmaker, artist or technical creator with unusual promise and a clear voice.
Student Vision Award
For a student or school-based work with ambition, craft and a meaningful cinematic idea.
Jury Special Mention
For a bold achievement that deserves recognition beyond standard categories.
These awards are designed for cinema craft, not AI novelty.Submit your project for consideration