Anecdotes

Twice winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Square (2017) and Sans filtre (2022). The other directors to have won the Palme twice are: Francis Ford Coppola, Ken Loach, Emir Kusturica, Alf Sjöberg, Bille August, Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Shôhei Imamura and Michael Haneke.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 8th Beijing International Film Festival in 2018.