Filipino Actress Jaclyn Jose wins Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival
Seven years after Brillante Mendoza won best director for Kinatay in 2009, the Philippines gets to enjoy another win at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, with veteran actress Jaclyn Jose bagging the Best Actress award for Ma’Rosa.
ANOTHER FIRST FOR THE PHILIPPINES as veteran actress Jaclyn Jose wins the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Thomas Leibreich FDC via the Cannes Film Festival website.
Jose was in tears as she accepted the award onstage with Mendoza and her daughter, Andi Eigenmann. She played Rosa Reyes, a mother and store owner in Manila who sells drugs with her husband, played by Julio Diaz, to make ends meet.
Jose has starred in numerous Filipino films and soap operas, with her latest project being GMA’s The Millionaire’s Wife, where she plays a spoiled, rich woman.
Here’s the full list of winners from the 69th Cannes Film Festival:
Feature Films
• Palme d’or: I, Daniel Blake directed by Ken Loach
• Grand Prix: It’s Only the End of the World directed by Xavier Dolan
• Best Director ex aequo: Cristian Mungiu for Graduation and Olivier Assayas for Personal Shopper
• Best Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi for The Salesman
• Jury Prize: American Honey directed by Andrea Arnold
• Best Performance by an Actress: Jaclyn Jose in Ma’Rosa directed by Brillante Mendoza
• Best Performance by an Actor: Shahab Hosseini in The Salesman directed by Asghar Farhadi
• Vulcan Prize for an artist technician: Seong-Hye Ryu, for the artistic direction of The Handmaiden directed by Chan-Wook Park
Short Films
• Palme d’or: Timecode directed by Juanjo Gimenez
• Special Mention from the Jury: A moça que dançou com o Diabo (The Girl Who Danced With the Devil) directed by João Paulo Miranda Maria
Source: Cannes Film Festival official website, GMA News Online, Rappler, Philippine Daily Inquirer, CNN Philippines, Interaksyon, Forbes
